John D. Rockefeller's legacy as a business titan is unparalleled. As the founder of Standard Oil, he established an economic ...

As has happened every summer for 15 years the Rockefeller Foundation, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. as chairman of the trustees and George E. Vincent as president, last week made annual report of the ...

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When William Avery Rockefeller lived near the present town of Park River, N.D., during the spring and summers of 1881 through 1889, his son, John D. Rockefeller, was becoming the richest man in the ...

I dare say there are probably only a few of the readers of this column who have not heard the name John D. Rockefeller. Just the name Rockefeller conjures up images of wealth and power. Everything ...

The Rockefeller name looms large in America, referred to in US history textbooks and engraved on building placards thanks to patriarch John D. Rockefeller’s work in the oil, banking, and railroad ...

In 1927, a $5 million donation from the richest man in America—the equivalent of $92 million today—secured the Great Smoky Mountains’ then-tenuous future for protection as a national park. But when ...