- John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind. - David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Sr. is a prominent American banker, philanthropist, world statesman, and the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child and grandchild, respectively, of the prominent philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the billionaire oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five deceased siblings are: Abby, John D. III, Nelson, Laurance and Winthrop. - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (29 January 1874 - 11 May 1960) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son and scion of the billionaire Standard Oil industrialist, John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers. In biographies, he was invariably referred to as "Junior" to distinguish him from his more celebrated father, known as "Senior". - William Rockefeller
William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. (May 31, 1841-June_24, 1922), American financier, was a cofounder with his older brother John D. Rockefeller of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. was the son of William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. William was born in Richford, New York and in 1853 his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio. He was to later build an ostentatious mansion called "Rockwood Hall", now demolished, … - Ida M. Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5 1857-January 6 1944) was a teacher, an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of her day, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism." She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book "The History of the Standard Oil Company", … - Neva Rockefeller Goodwin
Neva Rockefeller Goodwin (born 1944) is the third child of David Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. She is a philanthropist and environmentalist and a fourth-generation member (known as "the Cousins") of the prominent Rockefeller family. Her siblings are Abby, Richard, Peggy Dulany, Eileen Rockefeller Growald, and David Rockefeller, Jr. - Lee Raymond
Lee R. Raymond (born August 13, 1938) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005. He had previously been the CEO of Exxon since 1993. He joined the company in 1963 and has been president since 1987 and a director since 1984. In 1989, Raymond's tenure as President of Exxon saw the Exxon Valdez disaster which spilled an estimated 30 million gallons of crude oil off the Alaskan coast and killed thousands of wildlife animals and fish. - Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. Pratt's product later gave rise to the slogan, "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil"." He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867, which became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874. - James Stillman
James Jewett Stillman was a noted American businessman who invested in land, banking, and railroads in New York, Texas, and Mexico. The son of Elizabeth Pamela Stillman (neé Goodrich) and Charles Stillman, James Stillman was born in Brownsville, Texas. Charles Stillman had significant business interests which James acquired in 1872. He expanded those to control of sixteen Texas banks and a significant land holdings in the Rio Grande Valley, … - Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2 1830 - May 20 1913) was an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. He is known as the father of Miami, Florida. - Henry H. Rogers
Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29 1840 - May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. During the Gilded Age, in the spirit of Horatio Alger, "Hen" Rogers, a child of working-class parents, worked his way to the top and became one of the key men in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. He also made many investments of his own in natural gas, copper, steel, coal, and railroad industries, … - Samuel Andrews
Samuel Andrews (1836-1904) was a chemist and inventor. Born in England, he immigrated to the United States before the American Civil War, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known as a partner in the oil refining firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, formed in 1867 in Cleveland, the major predecessor company of the Standard Oil corporate empire. When the first unit was formed in 1870, Andrews owned 16.67% of Standard Oil stock. - Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, (September 9, 1839-March 12, 1915), (known as "Cettie"), was a philanthropist, the namesake of Spelman College and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and the wife of the richest man who has ever lived, John D. Rockefeller, the founder of both Standard Oil and the Rockefeller family dynasty. - William Avery Rockefeller
William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) was the father of American oil tycoon and billionaire, John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937) and William Rockefeller (1841-1922), who both founded the Standard Oil company. "Big Bill" was a quack doctor and a confidence trickster. An unreliable father, he played virtually no role in his son's business career, but he lived to a great age. - Walter C. Teagle
Walter Clark Teagle, was responsible for leading Standard Oil to the forefront of the oil industry and significantly expanding the company's presence in the petrochemical field. - Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft". - Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 - December 30, 1966) was an American politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956, and Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961. - Carl Duisberg
Friedrich Carl Duisberg was a German chemist and industrialist. He was born in Barmen, Germany and from 1879 until 1882 he studied at the "Georg-August-Universität (Göttingen)" and Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and received his doctorate. After military service he starts in 1883 his work at the dyes company of Friedr. Bayer & Co. that later became Bayer AG. - Anna M. Harkness
Anna M. Richardson (25 October1837-27 March1926) was an American philanthropist. She married Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness, a harnessmaker of Cleveland, in 1851. They were parents of Charles William Harkness and Edward Stephen Harkness. Harkness senior invested with John D. Rockefeller and became the second-largest shareholder in Standard Oil. Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness died in 1888. - Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley (1921 - 1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She was born February 16, 1921 in Phillips, Wisconsin, the fourth of five children of Russian Jewish immigrants Louis and Ida Bubley. She became interested in photography in high school in Superior, Wisconsin, and, after two years at Superior State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin-Superior), … - Frank Rockefeller
Franklin "Frank" Rockefeller (8 August 1845, Moravia, New York - 15 April 1917, Cleveland, Ohio) was the youngest surviving son of William Avery Rockefeller. His two older brothers were John Davison and William Rockefeller of Standard Oil fame. Rockefeller's early years were spent in Richford. With his father, he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, which would be the home base of his business endeavors. He held various jobs in Cleveland and fought in the Civil War, … - George Johnson
George Henry Johnson (May 1, 1894 - August 30, 2006) was, at the time of his death, California's oldest man at 112 years of age and one of the few surviving veterans of the First World War. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1917, and served in the Fourteenth Company, 154th Battalion. He did not see combat during the war (but served at Fort Greene, North Carolina and Fort Dix, New Jersey), … - Edward Harkness
Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of three children born to Anna Richardson and her husband Stephen V. Harkness, a harnessmaker who invested with John D. Rockefeller and became the second-largest shareholder in Standard Oil. (His father died in 1888.) Harkness attended St. Paul's School and Yale University, Class of 1897. Harkness and brothers Charles and William were members of Wolf's Head Society at Yale. - John Rockefeller Prentice
John Rockefeller Prentice (December 17, 1902-June 13, 1972) was born to Chicago lawyer Ezra Parmalee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller Prentice in New York. Prentice's maternal grandfather is the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937). While attending Yale University, Prentice became a member of the Skull and Bones Society in 1928 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. - Harold Fowler McCormick
Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941) was chairman of the board of International Harvester Company. McCormick was the youngest son of Cyrus McCormick, inventor and manufacturer of the mechanical reaper. - William Goodsell Rockefeller
William Goodsell Rockefeller (May 21, 1870-November 30, 1922) was the third child of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller (1841-1922) and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. Rockefeller married Sarah Elizabeth Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president James Stillman, on November 21, 1895. - Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (April 3, 1882 - August 13, 1973) was the youngest child of Standard Oil tycoon, William Rockefeller and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. She was born as Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller in Tioga County, New York, and as an adult, she was widely known as Geradine R. Dodge. She was a generous benefactor to community and charity efforts. Giralda Farms was the name given to her stables and kennels, … - Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872-1932) was an American socialite and opera patron. McCormick was the fourth daughter of Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller ("Cettie") (1839-1915). Her famous younger brother was John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. She married Harold Fowler McCormick (May 2, 1872 -), a son of Chicago's mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, in 1895. - Abby Rockefeller Mauzé
Abigail "Abby" Rockefeller Mauzé ("Babs") was the first child and only daughter of John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. and Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich Rockefeller. She and her five brothers carried on the Rockefeller family tradition of philanthropy stemming back to her grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., founder of Standard Oil. Unlike her famous brothers, she always remained out of the public eye. - Hugh D. Auchincloss
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. (August 15, 1897 - November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. Auchincloss was born at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Sr., a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings, daughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of Standard Oil. Auchincloss graduated from Yale University in 1920 and earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1924. - Robert Model
Robert Model (born 1942) is the son of Faith Rockefeller Model (1909-1960) and Belgian Jean Model. He is the great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller (1841-1922). Model was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. Model attended The Browning School and then graduated from Elon College in Elon, North Carolina in 1967. He is currently owner and President of Mooncrest Ranch in Cody, Wyoming and President of the Boone and Crockett Club. - Faith Rockefeller Model
Faith Rockefeller Model (May 30, 1909-July 2, 1960) is a daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878-1934) and granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller (1841-1922). Model was born and died in the city of Greenwich, Connecticut. She married a Belgian, Jean Model, on May 7, 1941 and the couple had three children: Robert, Jeanette, and Richard. The Faith Rockefeller Model Center for the Arts at Elon University in Elon, … - Eileen Rockefeller Growald
Eileen Rockefeller Growald (born 1952) is the youngest daughter of David Rockefeller, grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. She is a fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family, known generically as "the Cousins". Her siblings are Abby, Richard, Peggy Dulany, Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, and David Rockefeller, Jr. - Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall (born December 30, 1937 Danville, Kentucky) played college football at Ohio State University. He left school before his senior year, and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was then drafted in the 4th round of the 1960 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. Marshall played the 1960 season with the Browns. He played from 1961 to 1979 with the Minnesota Vikings. - John Sterling Rockefeller
John Sterling Rockefeller (October 28, 1904 New York City - May 10, 1988 Greenwich, Connecticut) is the fourth son of William Goodsell Rockefeller (1870-1922) and Sarah Elizabeth Stillman (1872-1935). Rockefeller is a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder, William Rockefeller (1848-1922). Rockefeller attended Yale University and was a member of Scroll and Key. He purchased Kent's Island in the Bay of Fundy in 1930 as a bird sanctuary for the eider ducks there. - Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr. (1908 - August 29, 1930) was the heir to the Remington-Rockefeller fortune who died in a car accident in France. He was the son of Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller (1882-1973) and her husband, Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Sr. (1881-1963). He was a grandson of William Rockefeller, co-founder of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller. - Abra Prentice Wilkin
Abra Prentice Anderson Wilkin (born 1942) is the daughter of John Rockefeller Prentice (1902-1972) and his wife, Abbie Cantrill Prentice. Wilkin is the great-granddaughter of the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937). Wilkin attended both The Latin School of Chicago and The Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Connecticut. Abra Prentice Wilkin has become one of Chicago's most treasured philanthropists. - Mary Adeline Prentice Gilbert
Mary Adeline Prentice Gilbert (born November 29, 1908) is the second child of Ezra Parmalee Prentice (1863-1955) and his wife Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1871-1962). John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), the co-founder of Standard Oil is her maternal grandfather. She married Benjamin Davis Gilbert on October 16, 1937 at a community named Williamsport. One source reports that Williamsport was in Massachusetts, but Pennsylvania is indeed the true location. - William Larimer Mellon
William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868-1949), sometimes referred to as W. L., was a founder of Gulf Oil. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 1, 1868 to James Ross Mellon, eldest son of Judge Thomas Mellon, and Rachel Larimer Mellon, daughter of railroad and land baron William Larimer, Jr. He spent part of his childhood in the West with his uncle Andrew W. Mellon, who deeply influenced him. - Abbie G. Rogers
Abbie Gifford Rogers (b. January 20 1841 Fairhaven, Massachusetts - d. May 21 1894), was the first wife of Henry Huttleston Rogers, (1840-1909), a United States capitalist, businesswoman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. As children, Abbie and "Hen", each of "Mayflower" lineage, grew up and went to school together in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a small coastal fishing town with a whaling heritage.
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