Gareth Purnell is a Texan with a passion for history, family, and faith. With a strong family upbringing, extraordinary accomplishments, and heroic role models evidently propel Gareth to pursue history and theology majors. Primarily focusing on the decision to pursue a history major, he believes a history major is vital and exclaims it to be the most important major saying: “We should recognize the history to learn and form relationships from past mistakes.” Gareth intends for the history major to
agreed to fill all of his trains with oil. Thanks to his deal with Vanderbilt, Rockefeller was able to ship his oil cheaply, all across the country. However, there was still one problem: he had too much oil (Allen). Tom Scott, one of Vanderbilt’s greatest competitors, was looking for a way to overcome the Commodore. To do this, he offered Rockefeller a better deal than Vanderbilt could ever offer. Thanks to Scott, Rockefeller was able to use his abundance of oil to supply every home in the nation
Hilliard 1 John D. Rockefeller was born on July, 8 1839 in Richford, New York. There he grew up with his five sibling William, Lucy, Frank, Francis, Mary and his father William Avery Rockefeller and mother Eliza Davidson. His family moved to Moravia then to Oswego, New York and finally moving to Ohio where he was enrolled at Central High School in Cleveland. Rockefeller finished high school in 1855 to attend a business course at Folsom Mercantile College. He completed the six month course in three