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Apr 9, 2010 · John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men as America's first billionaire and a major philanthropist.
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- His father was a con artist and a bigamist. The tycoon’s father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a traveling snake-oil salesman who posed as a deaf-mute peddler and hawked miracle drugs and herbal remedies.
- Every year, Rockefeller celebrated the anniversary of landing his first job. On September 26, 1855, a Cleveland merchant company, Hewitt and Tuttle, hired the teenaged John D. Rockefeller as an assistant bookkeeper.
- He hired substitute soldiers to avoid Civil War combat. American Civil War History. Although he was a fervent abolitionist, Rockefeller did not take up arms when the Civil War broke out in 1861.
- Cleveland was the first epicenter of his oil empire. Shortly after the discovery of petroleum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the 24-year-old Rockefeller entered the fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland refinery.
Nov 24, 2009 · Radio City Music Hall was the brainchild of the billionaire John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who decided to make the theater the cornerstone of the Rockefeller Complex he was building in a formerly...
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Oct 24, 2013 · However, when millionaire philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. surprisingly offered a gift of six blocks of Manhattan real estate along the East River in December 1946, the committee...
Jan 2, 2019 · Former drys such as Senator Hugo Black of Alabama and General Motors CEO Alfred P. Sloan began converting to the wet cause, as did lifelong teetotaler John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Feb 13, 2018 · Some wealthy entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Frick are often referred to as robber barons but may not exactly fit the mold. While it’s true they built...
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Apr 28, 2021 · Aiming to build an oil empire to rival that of John D. Rockefeller, Getty purchased Pacific Western Oil Company and shares of Tide Water Associated Oil Company, the country’s ninth-largest...
