Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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By the time Clark learned that Andrews was actually with Rockefeller, it was too late.
They had agreed to auction the oil business between them.
The bidding opened at $500 and climbed past $10,000, past $50,000.
Clark said $72,000.
And Rockefeller countered again with no sign of stopping.
The business is yours, Clark told him.
Rockefeller was now 25.
He owned the majority of a refining business in a city he had arrived at at the age of 14 with almost nothing.
It was one of about 30 refineries in Cleveland at the time.
Two months after the auction, Robert E. Lee surrendered, ending the Civil War.
On a spring morning that April, the funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body stopped in Cleveland, Ohio.
Then the country put down its grief and turned with an almost guilty hunger to the business of getting rich.
One banker later said of the years that followed, it was such a period as seldom occurs, and hardly ever more than once in anyone's lifetime.
Returning soldiers wanted what the young businessman at home had gotten.
Everyone, it seemed, was chasing a fortune all at once.
Shortly before he took over the oil business from Maurice Clark, Rockefeller got married.
Her name was Laura Celestia Spellman, and she was a schoolteacher.
He called her Setti.
They had met years before as students at Cleveland Central High School, where Setti was the valedictorian of their class.
She stood out to Rockefeller then and later when they met again while taking similar commercial courses.
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