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John Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John joined the Erie Street Baptist Church, which later became the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, where he became a deacon at the age of nineteen and a trustee at the age of 21. Rockefeller married Laura Celestia ("Cettie") Spelman (September 22, 1839-March 12, 1915), on September 8, 1864 in Cleveland. As a consequence, Rockefeller (along with the Rothschilds) was considered in that country the canonical billionaire--synonymous with extreme wealth. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_D._Rockefeller   (2853 words)

John D Rockefeller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) John D. Rockefeller is without question the most conspicuous type of our present dominating commercial man. "The most important man in the world" a great and serious newspaper passionately devoted to democracy calls him, and unquestionably this is the popular measure of him. William A. Rockefeller was a tall and powerful man with keen straightforward eyes, a man in whom strength, and fearlessness, and joy in life, unfettered by education or love of decency, ran riot. There is a something in the fine, keen face of John D. Rockefeller's mother which recalls the face of Lætitia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and convinces one that she could not but have been a power with her boys, though there is little enough to go on in trustworthy tradition and records. tarbell.alleg.edu /archives/jdr.html   (2124 words)

American Experience | The Rockefellers | People & Events Rockefeller’s most important error of his career was to not go public at the time with his side of the story. Rockefeller, at age 43, was the leader of the Trust because he was "primus inter pares" (first among his peers), not a dictator. The Rockefeller Foundation was officially established in 1913 and Rockefeller transferred $235,000,000 to it by 1929. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jsr.html   (5631 words)

The Rockefeller Archive Center - JDR Sr. Biographical Sketch Rockefeller also was one of the first major philanthropists in the U.S., establishing several important foundations and donating a total of $540 million to charitable purposes. Rockefeller was born on farm at Richford, in Tioga County, New York, on July 8, 1839, the second of the six children of William A. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. Rockefeller's stake in the oil industry increased as the industry itself expanded, spurred by the rapidly spreading use of kerosene for lighting. archive.rockefeller.edu /bio/jdrsr.php   (2145 words)

American Experience | The Rockefellers | Rockefellers Timeline July 8: John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery ("Bill") Rockefeller, a travelling peddler of novelties and "cures," and Eliza Davison Rockefeller, a devout Baptist. Rockefeller is tainted by the scandal surrounding the South Improvement Company scheme, a secret alliance between major refiners and the railroads. Rockefeller decides to retire from Standard Oil, gradually and secretly, in a move designed to keep the press and the public in the dark. www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/timeline   (1057 words)

Rockefeller, John Davison. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Rockefeller was also prominent in the affairs of railroads and banks, being second only to J. Morgan in the domain of finance. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had six children, and his five sons all became famous in various fields of endeavor. New York City, son of John D. Rockefeller 3d, was elected governor of West Virginia as a Democrat in 1976; reelected in 1980, he was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and reelected in 1990, 1996, and 2002. www.bartleby.com /65/ro/RockefelJ.html   (805 words)

In the Hot Seat: Rockefeller Testifies on Ludlow Rockefeller that he agreed with witnesses who said recently before the commission that after all legal means had been employed for the protection of their lives and property, they would resort to force. Rockefeller himself spoke of the affair as the “Ludlow Massacre,” and said in extenuation of the deaths that the evidence seemed to show that many lost their lives from being smothered, rather than shot. Rockefeller took the stand in the morning he read a statement making all the more clear his position in regard to the case of John R. Lawson of the miners' organization, who is under sentence of life imprisonment for a murder growing out of his participation in the strike. historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5735   (4370 words)

. John D. Rockfeller 1839-1937 . The only time ever saw John Rockefeller enthusiastic was when a report came in from the creek that his buyer had secured a cargo of oil at a figure much below the market price. John D Rockefeller had been raised in the strictest Baptist faith, in the paternal farm near Cleveland, Ohio. Rockefeller never smiled, except for an exceptionally profitable deal, and he decided young that the oil business was his. www.micheloud.com /FXM/SO/jdr.htm   (370 words)

John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller was born the second of six children to a working class family in Richford, New York, a small community between Ithaca and Binghamton. Rockefeller reduced his workload at Standard Oil in the 1890s to direct some of his energies toward philanthropy; after his retirement, he devoted his remaining 26 years to that endeavor. Rockefeller was also a generous benefactor of Columbia, Harvard, Spelman, Bryn Mawr and Yale. www.u-s-history.com /pages/h957.html   (870 words)

John D. and Standard Oil The business spirit seems to have always inhabited John D. Rockefeller: as a boy, he bought candy by the pound, divided it into small protions, then sold it at a tidy profit to his siblings. John D. began to borrow heavily to expand the business (during all his career he benefited from a favorable credit rating with banks); however, for personal reasons, the Clarks (James joined Maurice as a partner in the early 1860s) distrusted the banks. By the time of the dismantlement of S.O., John D. was not running the company anymore (he officially retired in 1897) and his fortune was made; therefore, it had little impact on him. www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/rockefeller/bio2.htm   (733 words)

John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway (National Park Service)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The late conservationist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In 1972 Congress dedicated a 24,000 acre parcel of land as John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In the parkway, the Teton Range tapers to a gentle slope at its northern edge, while rocks born of volcanic flows from Yellowstone line the Snake River and form outcroppings scattered atop hills and ridges. www.nps.gov /jodr   (160 words)

John D. Rockefeller Page Rockefeller excelled at mental arithmetic and was able to solve difficult arithmetic problems in his head – a talent that would be very useful to him throughout his business career. Flagler and Rockefeller negotiate an agreement with the railroads: PA RR 51% of Standard Oil shipments; Erie 20%; NYC 20%; and BandO 9%, and obtains rebates from all the railroads for being an "evener" (that is, the Standard was charged with making certain that the railroads all got their "fair" share!). Rockefeller, at age 43, was the leader of the Trust because he was primus inter pares (pry-mus inter pay-reez – first among his peers) not a dictator. www.voteview.com /entrejdr.htm   (5840 words)

National Park Service: Biography (John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was the fifth child and only son of John D. Rockefeller, the builder of Standard Oil. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is probably best remembered for the sponsorship of the construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York City, funding the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, and donating land in New York City for the United Nations complex. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., symbolizes the philanthropic spirit of many American families, foundations, and individuals that have been vital to the national parks. www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/sontag/rockefeller.htm   (351 words)

John D. Rockefeller John Davidson Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York in 1839. One of the business problems that Rockefeller encountered was the high cost of transporting his oil to his Cleveland refineries (40 cents a barrel) and the refined oil to New York ($2 a barrel). Rockefeller now bought out Samuel Andrews for a million dollars and turned his attentions to controlling the oil industry throughout the United States. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArockefeller.htm   (1185 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John D. Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, the second of the six children to William Avery Rockefeller (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) and his wife Eliza Davison (September 12, 1813 - March 28, 1889). Rockefeller married Laura Celestia Spelman (1839-1915), a teacher, on September 8, 1864 in Cleveland. Rockefeller's grandson, Nelson Rockefeller, was Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford and another grandson Winthrop Rockefeller served as Governor of Arkansas. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller   (1405 words)

John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The nightmare begins... Rockefeller saw that a little knowledge can be decisive in the business world so he combined this good supply of information on his competitors with a total wall of silence he himself presented to the outside world. Rockefeller undertook to work out the good of the oil business the tendency to combination was marked throughout the industry, but it would not have been the combination whose history we have traced. Rockefeller has had to fight the best sentiment of the oil country and of the country at large as to what is for the public good. www.bilderberg.org /whatafel.htm#David   (8895 words)

John Mott Rockefeller again turned to his trusted friend John Mott, who proposed a plan that would enable global acquisitions of land and wealth as well as solving the philanthropic problem of who to support and fund for the furtherance 'of the gospel'. The Rockefeller Foundation records state: "Health becomes an RF priority at the first meeting of the board when Frederick Gates, long-time adviser to John D. Rockefeller, argues that "disease is the supreme ill in human life....RF begins 20-year support of the Bureau of Social Hygiene. An independent observer, John Lee, a ministerial student returning to the Church to pick up his car, said that he saw the glory of God in the form of a mist hovering all over the place, and later observed enormous angels everywhere throughout the auditorium. www.seekgod.ca /mott.htm   (5138 words)

rockefeller.senate.gov :: Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) Rockefeller began meeting with company officials in 1986 in his effort to bring Toyota to West Virginia, a decade-long process culminating in the announcement in 1996 that Toyota was locating a $400 million engine plant in Buffalo with 350 jobs. Rockefeller, Byrd Praise Senate Passage of Miner Act Vice Chairman Rockefeller Votes in Support of General Hayden for Next CIA Director rockefeller.senate.gov   (175 words)

THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY JOHN D. good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money." Here we have the foundation principles of a great financial career. Rockefeller once told it to his Cleveland Sunday-school, "As good fortune would have it I went down to the dock and made one more application, and I was told that if I would come in after dinner-our noon-day meal was dinner in those days-they would see if I could come to work for them. Rockefeller in preserving Cleveland's supremacy as a refining centre, and this was the Lake Shore and New York Central Railroads. www.history.rochester.edu /fuels/tarbell/UPTO52.HTM   (4244 words)

PlanetPapers - John D. Rockefeller Rockefeller formed a partnership in the commission business with another young man, Maurice B. Clark. THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH In 1901, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now The Rockefeller University) for the purpose of discovering the causes, manner of prevention, and the cure of disease. ROCKEFELLER SANITARY COMMISSION (1909-1915) In Rockefeller combined his special interest in the South and his interest in public health with the creation of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease. www.planetpapers.com /Assets/1678.php   (1964 words)

The Leipzig Connection - Chapter 3 - John D. Rockefeller, Columbia Teachers College But for Rockefeller personally the price had been heavy: he had become identified with all the excesses the Standard had committed in its rise to power; hatred clung to him like iron filings to a magnet... "Rockefeller was excoriated by the organs of public opinion, and was the target of numerous investigating committees. Acceding to their request, Rockefeller became immersed in the reconstruction of the university, giving to it in 1887 the then-huge sum of $600,000. www.sntp.net /education/leipzig_connection_5.htm   (1120 words)

John Davison Rockefeller John Davison Rockefeller - John Davison Rockefeller industrialist, philanthropist Born: 7/8/1839 Birthplace: Richford, N.Y. An... John Davison Rockefeller: Bibliography - Bibliography See biographies of J. Rockefeller by A. Nevins (rev. ed. John Davison Rockefeller: Son and Grandsons - Son and Grandsons His son John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.,. www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0842151.html   (540 words)

Statement of Senator Rockefeller on the Senate floor, October 10, 2002 Statement of Senator Rockefeller on the Senate floor, October 10, 2002 President, we are here today to debate one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make in my 18 years in the Senate. When there is a grave threat to Americans’ lives, we have a responsibility to take action to prevent it. rockefeller.senate.gov /news/2002/flrstmt0102002.html   (2573 words)

Booknotes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Rockefellers is that they were great institution builders. Rockefeller, when he was in his early 50s, after he had created this Rockefeller family is a family that's riddled by strange silences and www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1418   (7810 words)

JOHN ROCKEFELLER SR. Autograph In the spring of 1859, enterprising merchant clerks, John D. Rockefeller (in his first business venture) and energetic Englishman Maurice B. Clark opened their own commission merchant company in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years later, Rockefeller bought out his partner -- a move that paved the way to his vast fortunes with his forming the Standard Oil Company in 1870. This is one of the earliest hand-written documents drafted by Rockefeller in existence today. www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=720   (307 words)

John D. Rockefeller Quotations Also by Rockefeller, John D. I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own >> Rockefeller, John D. John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 May 23, 1937) was an American capitalist most known for his role in the early petroleum industry and the founding of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil is the largest of its descendants). Through a number of widely-criticized business tactics, Rockefeller built Standard Oil into the largest oil refining business in the world, and was for a time himself the richest man in the United States. www.quotationsbook.com /quotes/2108/view   (318 words)

John Davison Rockefeller,Sr. Taverna's class have learned a great deal about him and we think he was an amazing man! We interviewed historians and his descendents. We analyzed political cartoons about him and carefully examined his first ledger, Ledger A. We visited his home, Kykuit, in Pocantico Hills and the Rockefeller Archive Center. Now it's time for us to teach you what we know about one of the most interesting men in American history. www2.lhric.org /pocantico/rockefeller/jdr.htm   (119 words)

A TOC : Strategies of John D. Rockfeller and the Standard Oil Company 1863-1911 (Business biography of John D. ... A TOC : Strategies of John D. Rockfeller and the Standard Oil Company 1863-1911 (Business biography of John D. Rockefeller) The best book I know about John D. Rockefeller ever written, is Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. If you have only one book to read about Rockefeller, this is the one. www.micheloud.com /FXM/SO/rock.htm   (132 words)

John Rockefeller on the Issues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Voted NO on confirming Samuel Alito as Supreme Court Justice. Voted YES on confirming John Roberts for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Click here for 5 full quotes on Social Security OR background on Social Security. www.ontheissues.org /Senate/John_Rockefeller.htm   (2587 words)

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