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	Laurance Rockefeller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was a financier, philanthropist, and conservationist.
		Rockefeller was born in New York City and graduated from Princeton in 1932.
		Laurance and Mary had three daughters and a son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laurance_Rockefeller (353 words)

	The Rockefeller Archive Center - Laurance S. Rockefeller Biographical Sketch
		Established in 1940 with Laurance Rockefeller at the helm, Jackson Hole Preserve, Incorporated (JHPI) is a nonprofit conservation and education organization whose purposes are to preserve areas of outstanding primitive grandeur and natural beauty and to provide appropriate facilities for their use and enjoyment by the public.
		Laurance Rockefeller formerly was chairman of the New York State Council of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and its predecessor agency, the State Council of Parks.
		Laurance Rockefeller became a trustee in 1956 and was president of the Board of Trustees of the National Board of the YWCA of the U.S.A. from 1969 to 1973.
	archive.rockefeller.edu /bio/laurance.php (6830 words)

	Laurance Rockefeller -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26,1910 - July 11, 2004) was a (A person skilled in large scale financial transactions) financier, (Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being) philanthropist, and (Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution) conservationist.
		Rockefeller was born in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City and graduated from (A university town in central New Jersey) Princeton in 1932.
		In 2001 Laurance donated his 1106 (A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean) acre (4.5 km²) ranch to (A national park in Wyoming featuring mountains) Grand Teton National Park in (A state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east) Wyoming.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/laurance_rockefeller.htm (694 words)

	Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park-Art/Photos
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller married Mary French, granddaughter of Frederick Billings, and would come to love the farm and woodlands as though he'd always lived in Woodstock.
		Laurance's grandfather John D. was the head of the Standard Oil Company and one of the country's best-known philanthropists.
		Rockefeller became a trustee of the New York Zoological Society at the age of twenty-five, and was appointed to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission a few years later.
	www.nps.gov /mabi/mabi/aboutthisplace/rockefeller.htm (506 words)

	John D. Rockefeller, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the fifth child and only son of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, and one of the wealthiest Americans of his time.
		During the Great Depression he funded the building of Rockefeller Center and as a result became one of the largest real estate holders in New York City.
		Rockefeller donated the land on which the United Nations headquarters was built.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_D._Rockefeller,_Jr. (339 words)

	Laurance Rockefeller \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NEW YORK – Laurance Rockefeller, a conservationist, philanthropist and leading figure in the field of venture capital, died in his sleep yesterday morning.
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born May 26, 1910, in New York and was the fourth of six children of Rockefeller Jr.
		Rockefeller served on the board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and became the first recipient of the American Cancer Society's Alfred P. Sloan Memorial Award for his contributions to cancer research.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040712/news_1m12rockefel.html (335 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller dies
		Laurance Rockefeller, a conservationist, philanthropist and leading figure in the field of venture capital, died in his sleep Sunday morning.
		Rockefeller also was a pivotal developer of the economics field that became known as venture capital.
		Rockefeller is survived by four children, eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/07/11/philanthropist_laurance_rockefeller_dies (361 words)

	Rockefeller, Laurance Spelman -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rockefeller, Laurance S. American venture capitalist and philanthropist, third of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (1910–2004) was born on May 26, 1910, in New York City.
		Rockefeller, Nelson A. When Gerald R. Ford assumed the U.S. presidency in 1974 following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution enabled him to choose a vice-presidential candidate for the Congress to approve.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9399253 (675 words)

	Laurance Rockefeller dies at 94 \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laurance Rockefeller, the middle brother of the five prominent and philanthropic grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, who concentrated his own particular generosity on conservation, recreation, ecological concerns, and medical research, particularly the treatment of cancer, died Sunday at his home in New York.
		Rockefeller invested — personally or through a family partnership he established — in hundreds of startups, initially in aviation and electronics and later branching out to computers (Intel and Apple) and biotechnology.
		Laurance, his brothers and their sister, Abby, the oldest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr., grew up in what was almost certainly the richest family in America and yet frugality was a part of their upbringing.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0704/12rockefeller.html (952 words)

	Laurance Rockefeller Dies at 94 (washingtonpost.com)
		Rockefeller was a central member of one of the first families of American civic, social, economic and philanthropic life.
		Laurance Rockefeller, a tall, urbane, business-minded billionaire who operated private planes and PT boats for sport, became known largely for conservation efforts.
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, a New York native, was the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A43444-2004Jul11.html (568 words)

	John D. Rockefeller Jr.
		Rockefeller was born on January 24, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio, the fifth child and only son of John D. Rockefeller Sr.
		The Rockefeller family was deeply religious and the young man was raised with a sense of duty to family and church.
		Rockefeller married Abby Greene Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, in 1901 and they had six children, a daughter and five sons: Abby Rockefeller Mauzé, John Davison Rockefeller III, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, and David Rockefeller.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1781.html (739 words)

	Skeletons in the Closet: Rockefeller History
		LSR was, by the 1990s, willing to at least consider the possibility of life in outer space, to consider the efficacy of holistic and alternative medicines, to consider the implications of biocentrism, to consider a trajectory...
		Rockefeller is chairman of Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., an organization dedicated to improving the quality and diversity of the national teacher workforce, and he is a member of the Harvard Overseers' committee on university resources.
		Rockefeller is a trustee and the former chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Asian Cultural Council.
	www.seekgod.ca /rockefeller.htm (5153 words)

	John E Mack Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born on May 26, 1910, at a time when the health of his grandmother Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, known as Cettie, was beginning to fail.
		Rockefeller has "no thought of abandoning his 20-year-old policy of using his wealth as `venture capital' on untried new enterprises." Presumably the quotes around the words venture capital were meant to suggest that the term and the concept were then still novel.
		Rockefeller commissioned a series of studies that suggested that turning the park, which is the size of Vermont, over to the National Park Service would be the most effective way to reverse commercial incursions by timber companies and others, since federal regulations on land use were more stringent than those of the state.
	www.centerchange.org /center/center_news.asp?id=220 (3444 words)

	Laurence Rockefeller Dies At 94
		By exempting themselves from the burden they forced on their competitors, the Rockefellers were able to operate in a world of near laissez-faire capitalism while foisting the weight of more and more socialism on their competitors.
		In the switch, Rockefeller had made his assets non-taxable so that they might be passed down through generations without being ravaged by the estate and gift taxes which everyone else had to pay.
		The terrible part of this business is that the economic fraud permitted the Rockefellers through their foundations- though maddening to the middle-class taxpayers who are aware of it-is the least malignant part of the foundation picture.
	www.apfn.net /MESSAGEBOARD/07-13-04/discussion.cgi.53.html (2398 words)

	GolfForWomen.com - Aloha Luxe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		LSR went to great lengths to preserve the land in and around his resorts, and he insisted on building and staffing them with local residents so the properties could become part of the economic landscape as well.
		Laurance's next project was Dorado Beach, in Puerto Rico, where he converted a mile of beachfront property into another spare but luxurious retreat, this one made more accessible by air via Eastern Airlines, in which LSR owned a large stake.
		LSR purchased a huge parcel along the coast and hired Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, a leading architectural firm of the day, to create a hotel and a landscape that would keep visitors as connected as possible to nature.
	www.golfdigest.com /gfw/gfwtravel/index.ssf?/gfw/gfwtravel/gfw200411maunakea.html (2963 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Billionaire Laurance Rockefeller Dead at 94
		Laurance Rockefeller, a billionaire grandson of John D. Rockefeller who became a prominent philanthropist and supporter of environmental conservation, died in his sleep Sunday morning at his Manhattan home.
		Rockefeller worked regularly at his office in New York's Rockefeller Center until about three months ago, and was last in the office on Wednesday, Seitel said.
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born on May 26, 1910, in New York.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/07/11/billionaire_laurance_rockefeller_dead_at_94?mode=PF (420 words)

	Anti New World Order - Under Siege
		Rockefeller bought out his competitors or put them out of business through tactics that included price cutting and the acquisition of such supporting enterprises as pipelines, oil terminals, and cooperage plants.
		Rockefeller held numerous federal posts, including under secretary of state (1944), head of the International Development Advisory Board (1950-52), and under secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953-55).
		In 1974 Rockefeller was sworn in as vice-president under President Gerald Ford and served until the term ended in 1977.
	www.angelfire.com /dc/undersiege/therockefellers.html (786 words)

	Sofia News Agency
		Laurance Rockefeller, the conservationist and philanthropist who founded Grand Teton Lodge Co. and protected part of Grand Teton National Park, died in his sleep Sunday.
		Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was a billionaire and a leading figure in the field of venture capital, but he was best known for his environmental work.
		Rockefeller was No. 377 on this year's Forbes magazine list of 587 billionaires, with USD 1.5 B. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born May 26, 1910, in New York, and was the fourth of six children of Rockefeller Jr.
	www.novinite.com /newsletter/print.php?id=36899 (159 words)

	Nelson Rockefeller
		Rockefeller, born in Bar Harbor, Maine, on July 8, 1908, was named after his maternal grandfather, Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich.
		Rockefeller unsuccessfully campaigned for the presidency in 1960, 1964, and 1968 but when Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974, he came the closest he would in his public career of reaching the highest political office.
		Rockefeller was considered one of the leaders of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and is hailed as an example of one of the outstanding figures of the "1960s and 1970s Republican" movement.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1784.html (806 words)

	Laurance Rockefeller, 94, Philanthropist and Businessman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Rockefeller family interest in the hospital predated Laurance; his father had donated the block on 68th Street and York Avenue where the hospital is located.
		ROCKEFELLER CLAN The five Rockefeller brothers pose together at the National Institute of Social Sciences awards dinner in New York City in 1967.
		Each of the brothers and the Rockefeller family as a whole was presented a gold medal for “Distinguished Service to Humanity.” From left are David, 52, president of Chase Manhattan Bank; Winthrop, 55, governor of Arkansas; John D. III, 61, Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation; Nelson A., 59, New York governor, and Laurance S., 57.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/07/12&ID=Ar01401 (857 words)

	CBS News \| Laurance Rockefeller Dies At 94 \| July 12, 2004 06:19:00
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born May 26, 1910, in New York, and was the fourth of six children of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
		Laurance Rockefeller founded the American Conservation Association in 1958 and was head of Jackson Hole Preserve Inc., a conservation organization that played a major role in protecting parts of the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and redwood trees in California.
		Rockefeller was born May 26, 1910, in New York, graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and studied law at Harvard for two years.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/12/national/main628754.shtml (485 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Financier Laurance Rockefeller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, scion of the financial and philanthropic dynasty, died in his sleep yesterday at his home in New York.
		Born on May 26, 1910, he was the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s six children and an heir to the Standard Oil Co. fortune started by his grandfather.
		As a philanthropist, Rockefeller was known as a champion of environmental conservation who played a pivotal role in the development of the national parks system and federal conservation policies.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/v-pfriendly/story/211312p-182036c.html (163 words)

	Laurance Spelman Rockefeller dies at 94 - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rockefeller helped launch Eastern Airlines and was an early investor in Apple Computer and Intel, among other companies.
		Rockefeller established the American Conservation Association and was chairman of the New York Zoological Society.
		Rockefeller was one of six children of John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son of the man who founded the Standard Oil fortune.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040712-043621-2752r.htm (231 words)

	Chapter Six - The Rockefellers
		As missiles became more sophisticated, he invested heavily in Marquadt Aviation whose stock value increased 1000 per cent after it became publicly known that the government was buying its ram jet rocket engine for its next generation of missiles.
		Laurance was also instrumental in financing the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which became a prime supplier of aircraft for the Navy.
		Laurance used his wealth to establish himself as a leading protector of the environment.
	edwardjayepstein.com /rockefellers/chap6.htm (373 words)

	Whose Outdoors?
		Laurance Rockefeller was born in 1910 in New York City, the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
		They were, Winks says in ''Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation,'' ''a kind of laying on of hands, a passing of the torch in the interests of conservation and historical preservation.'' Now 87, Rockefeller has made the giving away of his money, and the devotion of his time to environmental goals, his primary business.
		Rockefeller donated millions to expand the Grand Teton park, helped to form Redwood National Park in northern California and contributed land and buildings in Woodstock, Vt., to establish Marsh-Billings National Historical Park.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/11/23/reviews/971123.23schneit.html (879 words)

	History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America
		The fortune was originally made by John Davison Rockefeller and his brother William in the consolidation of the early American oil industry under the mantle of their Standard Oil Company.
		The younger brother, William Rockefeller, was the first of the Cleveland Standard Oil clique to settle in New York, where he developed a close relationship to Wall Street and more specifically to James Stillman of the National City Bank.
		William Rockefeller became a large shareholder of the National City Bank and his alliance with the Stillman family was sealed by the marriage of his two sons with two Stillman daughters.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/OTHER/newsletter/chronicle280203.asp (857 words)

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