The Rockefeller name has had a long relationship with this region. Much of that dates to the year 1839, when John Davison ...

July 8, 1839 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 ...

Dr. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The richest person in modern history and the wealthiest American of all time, Edward Brooke (1839-May 23, 1937) became one of the richest people in the world when he ...

Sirs: In the issue of TIME for Oct. 31, on p. 31, appears a picture purporting to be of John D. Rockefeller III. Better guess again. lt is not a likeness of him. A CLASSMATE Princeton University ...

On July 8, John Davison Rockefeller would have been 98. The late Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who knew him well and served him faithfully, once said of Mr. Rockefeller: "Sane in every respect save ...

Last summer Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. took three of their sons for a trip in Europe. One of the boys looked after all the funds; another looked after the baggage; the third ran ...

Fifteen rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.); the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, ...

So said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a ...

Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: “Here, Mr ...

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery ... J. P. Morgan purchases Carnegie Steel from Andrew Carnegie, leading to the creation of U.S. Steel, ...

Close friends John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Lamont Bowers shared illustrious careers and origins in Broome County.