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There is no way around the Rockefeller name being associated with money, as it's synonymous with immense wealth and the ...

A. D. John. A modest start contributed to Rockefeller’s rise to one of the world’s wealthiest men. The 1839 birth of his father brought him into a household of modest means. In less than 20 years, ...

The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S.

When Ida Tarbell traveled to Cleveland to observe John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the man she had been writing about for two years, she chose not to confront him face to face. For two hours ...

Nelson Rockefeller and grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, went missing somewhere off the southwest coast of New Guinea. The young Rockefeller had gone there to collect primitive ...

James E. Darnell, Jr., Vincent Astor Professor at the Rockefeller University, has been appointed vice president for academic affairs, a new position at the school. Darnell, 59, was named to the ...