The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-29
JOHN D. AND BROTHER MAKE UP.
Breach Between Roekefellers is Re.
ported to Have Been Healed

ported to Have Been Healed.
Cleveland, O., July 25.-The breach
which developed many years ago be-.
tween John d. Rockefeller and his
brother Frank is reported to have
been healed.
It is said to be not unlikely that
the renewed friendship of the broth.
ers will be cemented by having the
bodies of Frank Rockefeller's children
taken up and laid to rest around the
'oil kings" monolith in Lakeview
cemetery.
The cemetery officials have heard
that the, bodies of the descendants OF
the men may be reunited in one burial
plot
John D. Rockefeller, who is a Lake.
view cemetery trustee, has ordered
that no information about his burial
plot be given out.
Frank Rockefeller has made and lost
several fortunes. His first wrestle
with hard luck was in the days when
the Standard Oil company was in the
process of formation by John d.
Frank owned an independent refinery.
He wanted to keep it Independent and
refused to deal with the trust pro-
motors.
This was the first break between
the brothers. Frank lost The trust
got possession of his property. A few
years later there was a reconciliation.
Frank was tanken into the Standard
and made vice president of the Ohio
Standard Oil company.
Then he went into the iron ore bust
ness with James Corrigan. The fight
between Corrigan and Frank on the
one side and John d. on the other is
history.
Corrigan charged he had been de-
frauded out of $500 shares of Stand
ard Oil stock. He had Endorsed notes
for Frank and had pledged the stock
to John ID. Frank had 1000 shares Ct
the Franklin Iron Mining company
stock also up as collateral. John d.
won the suit and kept all the stock.
But fortune was smiling on Frank
all the time. He was successful in
various business ventures. He went
into the fast horse business, owning
q Wis oloSh idl III at WlChllue, WutTv
he raised blue blooded stock, sending
a string of trotters down the grand
circuit. He sold this out. Then he
made and lost money in stocks. Fin
ally he bought large ranch in Kan
sas. He went into the stock raisin,
business there. Others who knew the
game better than he did went after
him This iS 10
cost him from 100000 to $5O0,OAh
He never said how much All th-
time John d. was piling up wealth.
The quarrel that started over busi
ness relations between the brothers
was heated at the time John d. erect
ed his monument in Lakeview eleven
years ago. Frank may have question
ed the propriety of the erection at
that time.
The quarrel ended in Frank having
the bodies of his children removed to
plot several sections east. John
ID. may have thought there was not
room for the graves of all the Rookie.
Teller dependents on his plot
Today there are eight graves about
the John d. Rockefeller shaft, with
headstones ranged along the arc of
wide circle. Four times as many
graves can be laid before the circle
is complete. The base of the monu-
ment bears the name Rockefeller" on
each of the four sides. The epitaphs
on the headstones merely give the
dates of births and deaths and, in |
some instances the relationship
Frank Rockefeller today would not |
discuss his relationship with his broth
er.
THE less you say about the Rookie.
fellers the better it will suit me-" he
said.