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Having said that, Rockefeller was considered one of the richest individuals in American history, having accumulated a fortune that was estimated at $1.4 billion by the time of his death. He was married to Laura Celestia Spelman, with whom he had five children: Elizabeth, Alice, Alta, Edith, and John Jr.
Rockefeller's fourth main philanthropy, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, was created in 1918. Through this, he supported work in the social studies; this was later absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation. In total Rockefeller donated about $530 million. Rockefeller in old age
The Rockefeller family. John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) and his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1864–1915), were the final owners of the house at 4 West 54th Street, which they acquired from Worsham in 1884. Rockefeller, co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, amassed an extraordinary fortune, becoming the world's first billionaire.
15080383. C. Wife of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Laura Cettie Spelman was the daughter of Ohio State legislator, Harvey Buel Spelman. With her parents being strong supporters of religion, Laura became devoted to church, as well as the temperance movement. In 1864, while attending high school in Cleveland, Ohio, she met a poor farm...
Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky. Lucy Aldrich Rockefeller Waletzky (born 1941) is an American philanthropist and environmentalist. She is the third daughter of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) and Mary French (1910–1997), and a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family. Waletzky served on the board of the Friends of the ...
Jun 29, 2023 · It was a Sunday in June 1882 at a Baptist church in Cleveland, Ohio. A visionary educator, Sophia B. Packard, shared her dreams of educating Black girls and women at a school she’d begun a year earlier, modestly, with 11 students in a church basement. In the audience as she spoke sat John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller.
A Special Relationship: Rockefeller, Child Study, and Race. In 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial granted funds to the University of Cincinnati to establish a child study and parent education program for African-Americans. This paper traces the origin of the idea for this program to a special relationship between the family of John D ...
