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Show NO BENEFIT TO BE JOHN D.'S RELATIVE By Associated Press. NEW TORIC. July 23. Charles Miller, a Brooklyn tradesman, who keeps a stationery sta-tionery store in tho basement of an old brown stone house, Is much Incensed because be-cause the newspapors discovered that his father, William E. Miller, who died or heart disease this week, was related to John D. Rockefeller. "If you must publish that fact." he exclaimed to a reporter, "at least ox-plain ox-plain that it Is but a very distant rela-tlonslilp. rela-tlonslilp. That kinship cost my father thousands of dollars and It. will probably cost me thousands more. "When the newspapers several years ago published stores of how Rockefeller made his money many people In this neighborhood became very Indignant. Somo of them learned that my father was distantly related to the oil king and forthwith boyciled us. In vain we Insisted In-sisted that the kinship was so far removed re-moved that even my father did not know just how It started. Peoplo would not believe us and whenever they passed our store they pointed to II. and said: 'There's Rockefeller's cousin.' My father grew so. enraged that ho forbade us ever to apeak of the relationship." |