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"devil bill"

" The tycoon’s father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a traveling snake-oil salesman who posed as a deaf-mute peddler and hawked miracle drugs and herbal remedies. The smooth-talking huckster dubbed “Devil Bill” alternately fathered children, including the future industrialist, with his wife and mistress, the couple’s live-in housekeeper. "

http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-john-d-rockefeller



"devil bill"

"On July 26, 1849, in the city of Auburn, New York,^[7] William was incited in court for a rape which had occurred at gunpoint.^[8] His victim had worked in the Rockefeller household;^[9]her name was Ann Vanderbeak.^[8][9] In the 1905 book Memoirs of an American Citizen, Robert Herrick says an improper relationship was rumoured to exist before the trial.^[10][11]

The court document reads, "That William A. Rockefeller late of the Town of Moravia in the County of Cayuga, on the first day of May in the year of the Lord Thousand Eight hundred and forty eight, with force and arms at the Town of Moravia in said County, in and upon one Ann Vanderbeak in the Peace of God with the People of the State of New York then and there being, violently did make and assault on her, the said Ann Venderbeak, then and there make violently and against her will feloniously did ravish and carnally know […]". William Cooper, the Rockefeller family Doctor, also indicated with the assault and battery with the intention of raping Ann Vanderbeak.^[10] "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rockefeller_Sr.