JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER VISITS HIS BIRTHPLACE.; Quite Unknown in the Home Where He Was Born -- The Door Quickly Thrown Open When He Announces His Identity.

John D.’s grandson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, even served as governor of New York from 1959–73. But the family fortune originates in Cleveland, where John D. founded Standard Oil in 1870. He didn ...

TITAN By Ron Chernow (Random House, $30) By the time he died, on May 23, 1937, six weeks shy of his 98th birthday, John D. Rockefeller Sr. had given away all but $26.4 million of a fortune so vast ...

Biography: John D. Rockefeller, Junior. It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its ...

The monopolist’s son, John D. Rockefeller Jr., comes in a close second, constructing the Rockefeller Center, an expanse of 19 commercial skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Standard Oil of New Jersey 1863–1912. Standard Oil of New Jersey 1863–1912. Industry: Utilities & Energy; Era: pre-1900; The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard ...

Biography: John D. Rockefeller, Junior. It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its ...