Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-17
Relatives OF DR.. Johnson, Dupe
OF DIR. ''Levingston,'' Reveal
Rockefeller SIS Duplicity
BROKE UP THE JOHNSON HOME
Caused Prominent Physician to Aban-
dor Family to Follow Him in His
Medicine Vending REPRESENTATIVES
Finally Reveal Story of Wrongs suf-
fered by Wife and Children.

Minneapolis. Feb. 1I.-Abandoned
with her children. a dying mother m
voke.d the wrath of heaven upon the
father of John ID. Rockefeller as the
insdious tempter who had lured away
her husband. debased his professional
standing. ruined her home and made
her children fatherless. Even today,
those children. now fully grown, exc
crate the name of DIR" William Lev
ingston. a name which they have
known from their earliest contact with
him as simply an alias used by Will
lam Avery Rockefeller.
johnson, the man who dressed as
an Indian in buckskin and feathers,
who travelled thru the new northwest
with the aged "Levingston' was no
uunclt medicine falir, as was supposed
in North Dakota where the two ped
died medicine. but DR.. j. j. Johnston.
a recognized physician of reputation
and position.
How this man was induced to give
up wife. family. friends, position prac-
tice, honor and the prospects of a ca
reer thru the baleful influence of Lev
ingston. and how the latter. having
wrung him dry Of value for his pur-
pose. flung him aside, a broken man, is
a story which has never before been
known by but half dozen persons.
II; hn
father of John ID. Rockefeller has been
the subject of CONSTANT search in
which thousands of dollars have been
spent. Why?
That DIR. William Levingston" and
DR." William A. Rockefeller, the father
of John D. Rockefeller. We're one and
the same man has been ascertained
and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
in part thru recent disclosures from
Park River, N. d.
DIR William Levingston" was q
secretive man. He told nothing Of
himself to those he met while living
on the farm summers near Park River.
~ D.. and in F'reeport, H.. where he
died May H. 1906, aged 90 years. five
months and twenty-eigh days. 1t is
that the first real light is thrown upon
the origin of John d. Rockefeller-upo
what kind of a man it was who faith
cred him.
A Minneapolis woman closely re-
lated to the Johnston family has
known all her life the secret of John
D. Rockefellers father-the secret
which has been kept from the world
with all the ingenuity which cunning
and constant vigilance and money
could provide. She knows that from
the time when they could first realize
what anything meant, the children of
Johnston were taught that tho their
father was living he was dead to
them. because of the father of John
d. Rockefeller: that If they would
have education they must find means
for that education themselves. because
of the father of the richest man in
the United States; that their mother
was deserted wife. because of the
father of John ID. Rockefeller.
While money and time and energy
unlimited We're being spent in the eff
fort to learn the mystery of the par
entage of the "Oil King" this woman
had no thought but that the whole
world knew that "Dr. William Lev
ingston' and William A. Rockefeller
were one and the same man. and the
sordid. unlovely father of John D.
Rockefeller.
The disclosures from Park River. N.
D., published February 5, came for
this reason as a shock to her. She
read on and saw a reference to "a
young man named Johnson. who wore
long black hair and dressed in buck
skin and feathers. posing as an In
dian and who was also a medicine