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 ...

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, ... At 24, Rockefeller gets involved in the oil business, along with partners Maurice Clark and Samuel Andrews.

Trust-busting and conservation were two prime preoccupations of President Theodore Roosevelt. At his instigation John Davison Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust was ultimately smashed to bits. At ...

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, ...

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. became the richest person in America through Standard Oil, the forefather of some of the world’s largest oil and gas corporations today, including Exxon Mobil and ...

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The Warren exhibit features personal items from John D. Rockefeller's Cleveland years and artwork collected by multiple ...

Much of that dates to the year 1839, when John Davison Rockefeller was born in the Town of Richford on Michigan Hill in Tioga County in a simple house as the second of six children to Eliza ...

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery ... creating a rising demand for oil. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., starts working at 26 Broadway.