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Who founded the Standard Oil Company?

By Pamela Landy

It wasn’t only John D. Rockefeller who founded the Standard Oil Company.

What would become the country’s largest oil company was founded in 1867 by four people, Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, S. V. Harkness, and Rockefeller’s brother William.

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