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Shortly after the Civil War, Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers opened a kerosene refinery in Brooklyn called, rather poetically, the Astral Oil Works. In 1874, facing an all-out war with John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, Pratt and his partner decided not to fight 'em but to join 'em. Charles Pratt & Company became a part of the Standard Oil Trust, Pratt's son became Secretary of Standard, and Pratt and his partner Rogers eventually became two of the richest men in America. In 1890, Charles…

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