Show ROCKEFELLERS HOLD 80 LO H ANNUAL REUNION More Than a Hundred Rally Round the Family Tree FULL REPORT OF LINEAGE O. O Bald Head but John D Only as Usual He Was Not Nol There Alban Albany X N. Y Sept J. Alter a aday alay lay day devoted to pleasure tho the fourth annual UI reunion of tho the n Rockefeller cl family carne came to an end nd hero this It was tho the most tho the of any reunion cv ov over r hold held and WaS u-aa best attended There W rockefellers rocke fellers rellers from rom Maine alne to California and they ranges ranged fum em 4 years year l. l ta 1 sj tho the latter b IN San uel L L. L Jet ler er of Arizona who made made- specially for the thu vent tho the journ journey Y mss U Mai Marie 1 to o of oi New CW York City was tho the youngest Strangely enough h. h in nil all tho the party of or moio ruou there wa nas iol rL a cm- cm aln- aln gb Klo Io bald h head and while tho the oil Ill mg ing John form D. D RJ Idler i t 1 head that thatIs Is barren J of f lh tho cind if ants unta of U th tha family were r w wll ll sup sup- plied tilled At their these theo wire I elected President V W. M. M Rockefeller of Sunbury Pa vic vic-s presidents I Rockefeller of or Pa and amI Samuel L. L Rockefeller of or Tombstone Arizona secretary Dr II IL O. O Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller ichler of Brooklyn assistant secretary secretary secre secre- tary tan W. W G G. G Rockefeller of or New York treasurer Miss I s Edith Rockefeller of ot Germantown historian Dr Dl II H O. O Rockefeller of oC Brooklyn Mrs j Elizabeth K i. t. t of Al Al- bany Among Amons who ho attended t the tho banquet were Mr and Mrs Ir William G. G Rockefeller Now New lork ork Samuel JL L. Rockefeller Tombstone Arizona Niss Annie G G. G Rockefeller Buffalo I J Ir and Mrs Harry Rockefeller o of I j i W. W y II Thompson on Montgomery Mont Mont- gomery gomory Frederick Rockefeller Miss Germantown Lillian Rockefeller Mrs Ir James A. A Rockefeller Wilkes Wilkes- Pa Miss lIss Grace 1 F. F Rockefeller ler Jer Pa Enoch E. E Doyl Pa on Family Tree Every ono one of the guc guests ts patiently awaited the report of or Dr Aaron R R. Lewis of oC Brooklyn who had been beau commissioned b by John D D. Rockefeller c eJ- eJ ler to look Jool up tho the family tree Ho reported that in his researches he had dl that the Rockefellers lire arc of ot lineage that the tho ancestors ances ances- toys tors of or tho family in southern Franco France were barons and that the tho south of or Prance Iranee ancestry dates back farther raIther than any of or the other bl branches Tho German branch which heretofore had bach been considered tue tho original branch was merely a branch of the tile French family which early In history history history his his- tory cro crowed crossed ed the border bOlder Into Ger Ger- many Dr Lewis eald raid he had traced the Rockefeller ancestry back bacle to 50 A. A D. D He found In tho the little of Fahr twelve o families by the name nane of ot Rockefeller who told him to tell teU the tho American Rockefellers that they need never be ashamed of their German German Ger Ger- man cousins as thy they were vere all perfect perfect per per- eel gentlemen law abiding peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful and Industrious and nn that none Jone of them had c ever r been or of a criminal offense and b by the help of or God had been ablo able to help them them- selves Dr Le I Lewiss Lewis's s hl c Investigation ion a alo 1 revealed re re- re- re the fact that John D. D Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller was not Hot the original money- money setter getter for COl he found In France coins of ur the year A. A D. D made by the thc titled Rockefellers an and bearing berrinS their name Many Iam of the tho Huguenot HU members members mem mem- bers hers of the family faintly lI lied d to Germany under tile the persecution of Louis XIII thus establishing the tho family In that country The Thc Rockefeller Family association wits organized February 1 1 1905 and now no has a a. membership of ot nearly The Tho first t meeting of ot the association tion was held In Jul July JulI 4 I l 1005 O when members rs were en en- rolled When helt Rockefellers Clime Here The Ro Rockefellers came to this country outry In the early part of ot the tho eighteenth century and the earliest record of their being in this country country coun coun- tl try was found In the minutes o of tho thu West Camp Lutheran church West cst i Camp where it was stated that Ann Ami Margaret Rockefeller was a communicant communicant com corn on ott August 20 O. O 1710 The TIte record of their being In New Jerley Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey ley Is found in tho the minutes of ot the First Reformed church of or Somerville where It states that Ann daughter of oC John Peter Rockefeller nn and wife was wan baptised d In June 1724 Diehlo with his family finally settled In Germantown where ho was naturalized in 1737 and on June Jurio 15 15 1741 bought several parcels of land and at tho the end of or hits active business bus bus- iness career Is said ald to have owned tWO COO aes of ot land Jand Many Inny of his descendants des des- are aro In po possession of a large pa part t of or this land John Peter Petel Rockefeller the great great grandfather of or John D D. Rockefeller Rocke feller loller located in township county N. N J. J all and was naturalized in 1730 He soon owned a a. tract of ot acres of or lan land near which remained In thu family until 1788 but is still known 23 the as-the the Old Rockefeller farm John D. D Rockefeller did not at- at Lend nd tho the reunion He never has but bui always receives reports of the of-the the annual n affairs rs |