Rockefeller, John D.

Cultural  

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.

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

From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.

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

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

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

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

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

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various