The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-07-16
MR. JOHN o. RockEFELLgs-r.r
LESSON or HIS LIFE

MI John d. Rockefeller has enter
ed upon his list year. He is ton
years younger than Mr.. FlagIer WIN
cannot Florida interest him in the Dc.
Velopment OF the west coastq
nature has been more lavish nth
It's gifts to it than with the east
coast.
Inc following are the salient points
In Mr.. Rockefeller's history.
John Davidson Rockefeller Was
born In Richford. n. Y, July s. 1899
son OF William A. Rockefeller a Far,
mer' and Eliza Davis Rockefeller
He says he MIXED COWS at wears
OF age.
AT he bought cordwood for the
home.
AT - he supervised the construc.
ton OF brick house for his father.
He went to Cleveland, Ohio. when
he was IL. Left school at 16.
His first position was as a clerk
and bOOkkeeper in 1855. He got $50
Tor four months work. He declared
he didn't mind the amount of the sal
airy. IL was the position.
When he was l9 years old he asked
Tor $500 year salary-and was re-
fused. Left his position, borrowed
$4,000, without security, to commence
a produce commission business with
a young Englishman. His first years
profits were $4,000.
BY combining with other interests
ne forced or bought out many small
er companies, so that in 1872 he be-
came master of one-flfth of the refin-
Ing business Of the United States.
His gifts to the church grew great.
er in proportion to his earning capac-
ity.
In 1876 he combined all Of his COM
panies into one, and called it the
Standard Oil Company. 1t was cap
ftalized at S1.OO0.OOO.
In 1882 he organized the Standard
on Trust. which was dissolved in
1892, and since then various compan-
les have been operated separately, but
under identical control.
At 16 he had SO; at IL, 800; at
1s, $500; at %, $500; at 26, $4,000;
at 81, 100000; at "a, s1,2O0,0OO; at
a., $4,000, 900; at 81, $4,000, 900;
- - .hs~ .sv,,o H,;e For&,,na &c oc4i
mated at $7OO,OOO,0 600.
He says that his success is due to
the training he had at home, and his
willingness to work.
He has given $S5,00O,O0O to educa-
ton, science and charity, and $4,000
900 to the New York Educational
Board, the largest single gift ever
made.
His income is larger than the com
bined incomes of all the sovereigns
Of Europe.
He has developed markets all over
the world.
His company carts oil from door to
door in Germany and Portugal and
other countries, as it does in America
His great principle is business:
PAY a profit to nobody"
His great principle is religion. THE
Golden Rule"
His corporations employ 100000
men. women and children.
He was an old man at 60, but
through care, careful diet, and exer
else. is a young man at 20.
Doesn't smoke, doesn't drink.
He has small, keen. steelblue, rest
less eyes.
He has a wide, thin-lipped, restless
mouth. scanned at the corners with
lines Of repression and tenacity.
IA. face is rather rudy, not lined
but creviced with long, deep seams.
His shoulders are somewhat stoop
ed and his body is somewhat long
and out OF proportion to the length OF
mis- legs.
He has no eyebrows, his head is alb
solutely hairless. and he wears an
iron-Cray wig.
His speech is low. deliberate. agree
able and has something of the ryth
mic cadence Of a preacher.
His old acquaintances describe him
as cautious. soft-footed' low-spoAeh
secretive man"