John Davison Rockefeller, son of William and Eliza Rockefeller, was born July 8 1839, in Richford, New York about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William, was a "Doctor" who claimed he could cure cancers and charged up to $25 a treatment. He was gone for months at a time traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother, Eliza, was very …showed first 75 words of 1232 total…

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