As chairman of Standard Oil Co. of California, Keller executed the company’s $13.3-billion ... critics of the company’s operations there created old-fashioned “wanted” posters ...

By the late '80s, the firm bought the remainder of its Standard Oil Company partner for $8 billion, later merging with Standard Oil of Indiana's successor, Amoco, in 1998.

THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY. Share full article. Oct. 5, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 5, 1883, Page 2 Buy Reprints.

M r. Herbert L. Pratt has been chosen to be the head of the Standard Oil Company of New York, to replace Mr. Henry C. Folger, who resigned shortly after the Board of Directors failed to secure the ...

Standard Oil also has the distinction of being the first billion-dollar company in history. By 1913, Rockefeller's personal fortune had swelled to $900 million — a staggering 3% of the entire U ...

Here is his summary of Rockefeller’s success in the oil industry: “He bought his first oil refinery in 1862, and by 1870 set up Standard Oil Company of Ohio, made secret agreements with ...

Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up in the shadow of eastern Pennsylvania’s oil derricks. Her father and brother, both involved in the 19th century’s infant oil industry, each suffered at the hands of ...

Soon, Standard Oil became the first company with a billion-dollar stock market value, accounting for about 85% of America's oil sales. Breaking up an empire. Below the Sky/Shutterstock.