John Davison Rockefeller Sr. ( – ) was an American businessman and philanthropist. [1] He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time [2][3][4][5] and one of the richest people in modern history. [6] Rockefeller was born into a large family in Upstate New York who moved several times before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. He became an assistant bookkeeper ...
John D. Rockefeller (born , Richford, New York, U.S.—died , Ormond Beach, Florida) was an American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. He is the major historical figure behind the famed Rockefeller family and widely considered the richest American and ...
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men and a major philanthropist. Born into modest circumstances in upstate New York, he ...
John D. Rockefeller was born , in Richford, New York, about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a "pitch man" — a "doctor" who claimed he ...
Grant Segall is the author of John D. Rockefeller: Anointed with Oil (Oxford University Press, 2001). He spent forty-three years as a daily journalist, mostly with the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He has written for Time, The Washington Post, Science, The Daily Beast, The Boston Globe, Reuters, American Education, Inside Climate News, and many other outlets. He has won three national awards and ...
More than 80 years after his death, Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller remains one of the greatest figures in the history of Wall Street.