William Avery Rockefeller And The Cure For Cancer Scam

by Scam on July 2, 2007

in Famous Scams & Fraudsters

Mention the name ‘Rockefeller’ and most people will, depending on their point of view, consider topics such as huge wealth, political influence, major banks, philanthropy or even the Illuminati and the New World Order.

However, the Rockefeller name became well known far before these other tags were put upon the family.

William Avery Rockefeller, father to John D Rockefeller Snr, specialised in snake oil long before the family name became synonimous with crude oil.

He was a womanising thief and adept scam artist who travelled the country selling herbal rememdies.

With one such cure he claimed that he could cure all forms of cancer that had not already become terminal.

Promoting himself as ‘William Rockefeller, the Celebrated Cancer Specialist’, he charged $25 a bottle for his magical cure.

At the time that equated to two months net pay for the average American.

The ‘cure’, based on a laxative mixed with petroleum, lived on for a great many years, becoming known as Nujol.

During his lifetime he fled many charges, including ones for swindling and horse stealing.

He was also indicted for raping a hired girl in Cayuga in 1849.

To evade capture he assumed the identity of Dr William Levingston from Philadelphia, a name he kept right up until his death in Illinois on May 11, 1906.

Buried in an unmarked grave in Freeport, he was married to Eliza Davison but it was his housekeeper, Nancy Brown, who bore him the Rockefeller dynasty that is so well known today.

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    { 12 comments }

    1 Col July 19, 2008 at 10:47 pm

    This David icke fella is a bigger nutter than I am :D

    2 Scam July 19, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    I’m not sure anyone could ever be worse than you Col!!!!!!!!!!

    3 David icke September 22, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    I meant lizards, sorry

    4 Scam September 26, 2007 at 10:25 am

    Well, whatever, it made me laugh :D

    5 C Smith September 21, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    “The Rockefellers are all shape shifting lesbians”

    That is the funniest thing I have heard all day. Classic.

    6 Scam September 20, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Beats me Karen but it sure made me laugh.. I was hoping he was going to come back! :D

    7 Karen August 31, 2007 at 9:50 am

    WTF??? Who is this nutter?

    8 Scam August 31, 2007 at 9:10 am

    LMAOOOOO :D

    If you were really David Icke you would mean lizards surely? :D :D

    9 David icke August 31, 2007 at 9:06 am

    The Rockefellers are all shape shifting lesbians

    10 Steve October 3, 2007 at 1:51 pm

    That’s almost as funny as your other whacked out ideas.

    11 Susan October 23, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    I thought you said the British Royal Family were the shapeshifters?

    12 Scam October 23, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    Susie – this isn’t the real David Icke :!:

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