THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
before the Governor of New York for the extradition of the other five gentlemen.
With damaging testimony piling up day by day in three states, and with an indictment for conspiracy hanging over the heads of himself and eight of his associates, matters looked gloomy for John D. Rockefeller in the spring of 1879. "The good of the oil business" certainly seemed in danger.
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