The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-24
Rockefeller Dies
 Most Unexpectedly
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$yeaHS of the century was accused oi
 ievefy sin of avarice and ruthlessness
 land was labeled by the muckrackers
 lof the day as "the most hated mar 1din America" The expressions came atfrom national and state leaders ntfron scientists who had been en- Ilab]sd to devote lifetimes to resarch his philanthropies, from Tpeaders of the Baptist church which Plhad received millions from the fam nfly.
 s1 Made His Money in Oil q Rockefeller made his money in the ', ,lera when vast fortunes were coming Flfrom the natural resources and
 booming enterpris .s of an expending,
 pioneering nation. Among his busi-
 hess contemporaries, Carnegie made
 his millions in steel, Hartman, Hill
 hnG Gould made theirs in railroads,
 land he had his-more millions than
 kheir millions put together = in oil.
 His Standard Oil company crushed
 All opposition, controlled the major
 Fields, and at one time reached the
 6tupendous value of $7,50O, ,000,0 ,000. It
 Etirred up so much public indigna-
 kion that it was dissolved under the
 antitrust law and its founder was
 Tined $26,000, ,000.
 He retired then, and his philan-
 Ehropies-made through his son-bc- atame almost as prodigious as his ac- Over $100,000,000 went Into medical and scientific research, nS100, ,000, 900 was spent for sanitation wand medical social service, another gkl00, 100000 went into religion. These Yyere his major philanthropies Ill iFound sums, but there were hun Jfreds more.
 No Relative at Deathbed No member of his family was pres I Int when he died since his death was 3huite unexpected. He had been plan -hing to go north to his Lakewood, N.
 home as he did every spring. Late
 Thursday he complained of feeling
 kired. Saturday he took to his bed., Saturday night, his nurse, Ray c. $ly, was strengthening the sheets. He 4aid in barely audible voice: Raise dne little bit higher" Sly did 90.
 That's better" These were his last words. Soon afterward, he was Eomatose. Sly sent for Dr. H. L. Merryday, his physician. Mrs. F. A. Evans, a distant relative and his hos less was called as was John H. Yordi, his valet for 30 years, and these were The people around his bed when he breathed his last.
 NeighbOrs Gather Today, townsmen gathered around -lhe fenced Rockefeller estate dis kussing the old man who called them heighbors, and whom they called heighbor. The bells in the Baptist khurch of which he was par
 shioner, tolled for him. Neighbors | |alked about the golf he had played
 h his private course before his am- bition to live long caused him to give It up, of the dimes he had given lYay, of his millions, of his kindly, Aomely dealings with them. In the Yfflce of the Daytona Beach Sun Record, compositors were setting up |his paid obituary notice.
 "Rockefeller, John Dawson, in Ais ninety eight year, at the Case hents, Ormand Beach, Florida, on Hay twenty-third nineteen hundred 'hirty-seven. Funeral private. Kind- N omit flowers"
 Despite the extent of the Rockefel- er fortune, the death of its founder r Eill mean very little in the way of Iaxes. Before the present tax on Rifts was established, Rockefeller l Rad passed on his millions to his son Ind to charitable foundations which kis son administrateS. The exact mount the government will receive kill not be known until the mount of his estate is known. The | Iax reaches 70 per cent on fortunes If $5O,OOO, ,O0O or more. The first $4O.- N loo is exempt. s Left Small Estate A spokesman for the family said Ioday that Rockefeller had left a 1 Icomparatively small estate" lS pr. Harry Emerson FoSdick, pas- br of the Riverside Baptist church { .f New York city. richly endowed by s he Rockefellers, will preach the fun |ral in the Ponantico hills estate lr Fednesday morning. in the same z