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Mar 22, 2023 · William Rockefeller Jr., who helped build Standard Oil. HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty The roughly 200-acre estate, about 20 miles west of the city’s center, was listed for $29.9 ...
Jun 25, 2015 · Alibaba founder Jack Ma has paid $23 million for 28,100 acres in New York's Adirondacks that were once owned by William A. Rockefeller, Jr. The estate, called Brandon Park, is roughly 30 miles ...
Rockefeller State Park Preserve offers quiet countryside walks of all lengths through forested hills and valleys surrounding sunlit pastoral fields. Thirty miles north of New York City, the property is the former Pocantico Hills and Rockwood Hall country estates of John D. Rockefeller family and William Rockefeller.
Jul 8, 2014 · 1. 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 ...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history.
John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York, about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a "pitch man" — a "doctor" who claimed he ...
His paternal grandparents were Emily Caroline Lincoln and Frederic W. Lincoln Jr., the former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, during the Civil War. Together, his parents had five children, of which he was the only boy: Florence Lincoln (1897–1998), who married William A. Rockefeller (1896–1973) in 1918.
