Word: millbrook
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Died. William Stamps Farish, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; of a heart attack; in Millbrook, N.Y. He was a big, tough but easy-talking Mississippian who had meant to be a lawyer but joined the great oil rush to Texas in 1901, worked as a roustabout, saved his pennies, started buying and selling leases in the oilfields, and ultimately wound up as the biggest power in Standard...