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Selling Exxon
Which is thicker, blood or oil? A longtime shareholder reflects |
Tyler Clements |
01 Aug 2006 |
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| My family has been intimately involved with Exxon through the years. My great-great-grandfather Maurice Clark went into the provisioning business with John D. Rockefeller around the time of the Civil War, but ended up selling the nascent oil-refining part of the business to Rockefeller in the late 19th century. Years later, my grandmother's uncle ran Standard Oil of New Jersey, later to be ... |
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