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  1. In 1917, her father gifted 12,000 shares of Standard Oil of Indiana (today known as Amoco), worth approximately $9,000,000 (equivalent to $214,036,364 today), to a trust fund with Alta receiving the income except for $30,000 directed to her husband.

  2. May 13, 2024 · Rockefeller had amassed a net worth of nearly $900 million by 1912, according to Smithsonian Magazine. That’s equivalent to about $28 billion in today’s dollars and a staggering sum by 1912 ...

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  4. The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...

  5. Spelman Prentice (1911-2000), son of Ezra and Alta Rockefeller Prentice. He married 1st, on 1 May 1937, at St. Stephen's Church, Coconut Grove, Florida, to Dorothy Jean Ryan (dau. of Stephen Andrew Ryan and Geneve Gilbert, b. 14 May 1915, in Illinois; d. 21 May 2009, France).

  6. John Rockefeller Prentice (December 17, 1902 – June 13, 1972) was an American attorney and member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was born to Chicago lawyer Ezra Parmalee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller Prentice in New York. Prentice's maternal grandfather was the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937).

  7. Jan 21, 2016 · Also financed by Rockefeller, the original building served as a settlement house for Italian immigrant families, and was named for the oil giant's third daughter, Alta Rockefeller Prentice.

  8. Mar 13, 2000 · He was 88. For many years, Mr. Prentice pursued oil and gas operations through the company he owned, the Prenalta Corporation, in the United States, and through Bluewater Oil and Gas Ltd. in...

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