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How greedy can one man be? You would think that once you put four of your competitors out of business that would be enough. Not. Or maybe enough is when your business has monopolized and you control the industry throughout the United States. Not. Enough was enough for John D. Rockefeller when his business turned into a trust and it was able to fix its own prices and had no other competitors. Although Rockefeller was greedy, he was a philanthropist. How ironic.

John Davidson Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1838 on a farm in Richmond, New York. He is the second of six children born to William Avery and Eliza Davidson Rockefeller. Rockefeller’s father traveled and was gone for months at a time and his up bring fell mainly on his mother. The Rockefeller family moved to Ohio in 1853. Rockefeller attended Cleveland Central High School. In 1855, Rockefeller left high school to take a six- month business course at Folsom Mercantile College. After completing the course......

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