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John D. Rockefeller, Sr. is remembered as one of the foremost capitalists in American history. Recalling some of the great names from the turn of this century - Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan,. William Hearst and Henry Ford - the name Rockefeller is always required to complete the roll call. Rockefeller, in his lifetime, was.
One hundred years ago John D. Rockefeller,. America's first billionaire and the head of. Standard Oil, faced a critical issue: what should he do about the criticisms of investigative jour- nalist Ida Tarbell? To Rockefeller, the solution was simple—ignore her. He was marketing 60 percent of all oil sold in the whole world.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 737-749) and index.
A Rockefeller Timeline. •. 1839: John D. Rockefeller, one of six children, born on a farm in Richford, NY, son of. William A. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller. Family later moves to Strongsville, Ohio. (near Cleveland). •. Mid-1850s: George H. Bissell forms Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company and buy land in western Pennsylvania
pleted manuscript was turned over to Mr. William O. Inglis, a writer and journalist of ability and experience, who spent ten years working with the elder John D. Rockefeller collecting materials for an official biography. Mr. Inglis was commissioned by Mr. L·ee to examine my manuscript and to note such statements of fact and.
John D. Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he officially retired in 1897. Rockefeller kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance,
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From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company

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