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William Avery Rockefeller, the Con Artist ‘Scoundrel’ Who Fathered a Dynasty

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John D. Rockefeller may have been a scion of American industry, the head of a family known for its philanthropy. But his father was a wheeling-dealing con-man and accused rapist.

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