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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Sadly, she lived just a year.
And then Alta in 1871, and Edith in the summer of 1872, just months after the Cleveland Massacre vaulted Standard into being the largest oil refiner on the planet.
And then, on a January morning, 1874, Rockefeller arrived at the Standard Oil office and told Henry Flagler the news with tears in his eyes.
Said he had given birth to a boy.
They had named him John Jr.
The family would call him Jr.
all of his life.
How glad we were that that baby was a boy, said he wrote, and that he was perfectly formed.
So picture the household of the most hated man in the oil regions in the mid-1870s.
Three little girls and now a baby boy.
They'd say morning prayers before breakfast where a latecomer would have to pay a one-cent fine.
As the children grew, they developed a homemade economy that ran on daily chores.
Rockefeller faced a problem his own parents had never had.
How do you raise children atop a growing fortune without ruining them?
His answer was to hide the fortune.
The children never once visited his office or the refineries.
They wore hand-me-downs.
John Jr.
would wear his sister's dresses for years.
And at home, Rockefeller had built a make-believe market where SETI was the general manager.
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