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. Rockefeller was born into modest circumstances in 1839, the son of an itinerant snake oil salesman who called himself a physician and his highly religious and disciplined wife, who raised ...

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.

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 ...