Rockefeller, John D.

An American businessman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a founder of the Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world at his retirement and was noted for founding many charitable organizations.

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There they left him, not far from the earthly remains of Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold.

Rockefeller, John D., and his mother, 309; on making money, 105.

Rockefeller, John D., gains chief control of petroleum traffic, 165, 166; aids cause of education in South, 201; methods of, 310, 321.

Rockefeller, John D., xi, 373; Edison compared with, i, 330.

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