Schiff Sovereign
June 10, 2026
In the year 1863, at the height of the Civil War in the United States that must have seemed at the time like an irrecoverable national death, a former bookkeeper turned entrepreneur built an oil refinery in Cleveland's up-and-coming industrial area in order to capitalize on the market for kerosene.
His name was John Rockefeller. And within twenty years he would control close to 90% of the oil in America.