Rockefeller, John D.

1. 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.

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Rockefeller, John D., Jr., on Joseph's corner in corn, 192.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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