William Rockefeller Sr.
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William Rockefeller Sr.
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William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman, lumberman, herbalist, salesman, and con artist who went by the alias of Dr. William Levingston. He worked as a lumberman and then a traveling salesman who identified himself as a "botanic physician" and sold elixirs. He was known to buy and sell horses, and was also known at one point to have bought a barge-load of salt in Syracuse. Land speculation was another type of his business, and the selling of elixirs served to keep
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American con artist (1810–1906)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr.
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2023-12-30T03:36:03Z
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