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See also:ROCKEFELLER, See also:JOHN See also:DAVISON (i839— ) , See also:American capitalist, was See also:born in Richford, Tioga See also:county, New See also:York, on the 8th of See also:July 1839. In 1853 his See also:family removed to See also:Ohio, living after 1857 in See also:Cleveland, where Rockefeller had begun to See also:work as a bookkeeper in 1855 and where in 1858 he went into the produce See also:commission business. His See also:firm, See also:Clark & Rockefeller, in 1862 invested in an oil refinery, planned by See also:Samuel See also:Andrews, and in 1865 Rockefeller sold out his See also:share to his partner Clark, bought for $72,500 a larger share in another refinery, and formed the See also:partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews. At about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time another refinery was started by Rockefeller's See also:brother See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William (b. 1841), but in 1867 Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this business, and See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry M. Flagler was added to the partner-See also:ship. In 187o the two Rockefellers, Flagler, Andrews and a refiner named See also:Stephen V. See also:Harkness formed the See also:Standard Oil See also:Company, with a See also:capital of $1,000,000 (increased in 1872 to $2,500,000 and in 1874 to $3,500,000), of which John D. Rockefeller was See also:president. This See also:great See also:corporation gradually established itself in See also:practical See also:control of the oil See also:production in See also:America, by means of business methods and See also:financial operations which have been severely criticized, but which brought immense See also:wealth to those concerned. Its capital was further increased in 1882, when See also:separate companies were organized in each See also:state; and in later years, as the first great American " See also:trust," the Standard Oil Company was hotly attacked during the See also:anti-trust See also:movement (see INTER-STATE See also:COMMERCE). Into the merits of this question it is impossible to enter here. Rockefeller himself retired from active business in 1895; he had for a time large See also:iron interests (mines and ore-carrying vessels) on See also:Lake See also:Superior, which he sold to the See also:United States See also:Steel Corporation, and his See also:personal wealth was probably greater than that of any other See also:man in the See also:country. In private See also:life he was a devoted member of the Baptist See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and his benefactions were numerous. To " the University of See also:Chicago founded by John D. Rockefeller " (in 1892) he had given, up to 1910, $24,809,666, while to the See also:General See also:Education See also:Board he had given $43,000,000; he founded (Igor) and supported the Rockefeller See also:Institute for Medical See also:Research in New York See also:City; he gave large sums to See also:Rush Medical See also:College in Chicago, to Johns See also:Hopkins See also:Hospital in See also:Baltimore, to See also:Barnard College in New York City and to the Baptist Missionary Society; and in 1909 he gave $1,000,000 to
endow a medical commission to investigate the nature of the See also:hook-See also:worm and to suppress the hook-worm disease.
See See also:Ida M. See also:Tarbell's See also:History of the Standard Oil Company (New York, 1903), a severe attack on the Trust; also his own See also:Random Reminiscences (1909).
End of Article: ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON (i839— )
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