Henry H. Rogers

Henry H. Rogers

male, deceased (1909)
Standard Oil Trust, collusion, bituminous coal, Businessman, coal, gilded age…American oil industrialist, standardoil
Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29 1840 - May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist....
Samuel Andrews

Samuel Andrews

male, deceased (1904)
american civil war, inventor, Chemist, palm beach, English American, oil…standardoil, The History of Standard Oil
Samuel Andrews (1836-1904) was a chemist and inventor. Born in England, he immigrated to the United States before the American Civil War, and...
Laura Spelman Rockefeller

Laura Spelman Rockefeller

female, deceased (1915)
"Cettie", Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, Northern Baptist, From Cleveland, abolitionist, American…standardoil
Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, (September 9, 1839-March 12, 1915), (known as "Cettie"), was a philanthropist, the namesake of Spelman College...
William Avery Rockefeller

William Avery Rockefeller

male, deceased (1906)
Norman Rockefeller, William Harris, Mary Miranda Rockefeller, Miles Avery Rockefeller, Sally Ann Rockefeller, Augier de Roquefueil…standardoil
William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) was the father of American oil tycoon and billionaire, John Davison Rockefeller...

Walter C. Teagle

male, deceased (1962)
Cornell University alumni, American, American oil industrialist, Business Person, standardoil, petrochemical
Walter Clark Teagle, was responsible for leading Standard Oil to the forefront of the oil industry and significantly expanding the company's...
Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

male, deceased (2006)
cancer death, Spingarn Medal winner, African American, from Kansas, photographer, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks…standardoil
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet,...
Christian Herter

Christian Herter

male, deceased (1966)
Johns Hopkins University faculty, eisenhower, United States Secretary of State, secretary of state, Harvard University, Governor of Massachusetts…standardoil
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 - December 30, 1966) was an American politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to...
Carl Duisberg

Carl Duisberg

male, deceased (1935)
German, Chemist, scientist, Chemical engineer, bayer, leverkusen…standardoil
Friedrich Carl Duisberg was a German chemist and industrialist. He was born in Barmen, Germany and from 1879 until 1882 he studied at the...

Anna M. Harkness

female
Memorial Quadrangle, New York Public Library, standardoil, New York Zoological Society, Commonwealth Fund, Edward Stephen Harkness
Anna M. Richardson (25 October1837-27 March1926) was an American philanthropist. She married Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness, a harnessmaker of...
Esther Bubley

Esther Bubley

female, deceased (1998)
Jewish person, Jewish, from Wisconsin, World War II, Jewish American, journalist…standardoil
Esther Bubley (1921 - 1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She was born...