Organization
South Improvement Company
Company of 1871 and 1872 that made a secret deal with the railroads on oil freight.
- Dates
- 1871–1872
- Wikidata
- Q2304511
Connections 3
members
- Henry Flagler Scholarship & press 1
- John D. Rockefeller director Scholarship & press 1
involved in
- Oil War of 1872 Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1871–1872 South Improvement Company
Proof 1 source
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The History of the Standard Oil Company (2 vols.), Ida M. Tarbell, McClure, Phillips & Co. (text via Project Gutenberg #60692), 1904.
Scholarship & press
I think they were O. T. Waring, W. P. Logan, John Logan, W. G. Warden, O. H. Payne, H. M. Flagler, William Rockefeller, J. A. Bostwick, and—_myself_.
It is a perfectly well-known fact that Mr. Rockefeller owned 180 shares in the South Improvement Company, of which he was a director
the Oil War of 1872 was an uprising against an injustice
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