15‚ 2001 The Rockefellers feared the temptations of wealth‚ yet a visitor once described their estate as the kind of place God would have built if only he’d had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a Democratic nation‚ then gave it all away reshaping America. They were the closest thing the country had to a royal family‚ but the Rockefellers shunned the public eye. For decades‚ the Rockefeller name was despised in America‚ associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s feared monopoly
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John D. Rockefeller John D Rockefeller‚ an American Industrialist and Philanthropist‚ was known for many things. At the young age of 19 he started his own company and later he founded the Standard Oil Company and the Rockefeller foundation. John Davison Rockefeller was the world’s first millionaire. In 1859‚ at the age of 19‚ he started his first company with a young Englishman. The company name was Clark and Rockefeller. The first year alone‚ the company grossed four hundred fifty thousand dollars
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John D. Rockefeller‚ born on July 8‚ 1839‚ has had a huge impact on the course of American history‚ his reputation spans from being a ruthless businessperson to a thoughtful philanthropist (Tarbell 41). He came from a family with not much and lived the American dream‚ rising to success through his own wit and cunning‚ riding on the backs of none. His legacy is huge‚ amassing the greatest private wealth of any American in history. Rockefeller’s influence on our country has been both a positive and
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John D. Rockefeller Should the wealthiest of one’s country donate funds to assist the welfare of others? John D. Rockefeller was born into a middle class family‚ but through his education and efforts he gained tremendous wealth. In the early stages of his life‚ he and his family moved to the Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ area where he later began to work as an assistant bookkeeper for produce merchant at the age of 16. Standard Oil was not discovered flowing out of the Western Pennsylvania springs‚ aka “Oil
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John D. Rockefeller was the founder of the Standard Oil Company‚ and he became once of the richest men and a philanthropist. He was luckily born into some great circumstances of oil business in 1863 by investing in a refinery. In the 1870’s Rockefeller than came up with the functions of the Standard Oil‚ this helped him climb to the top taking over about 90% of the U.S. refineries and pipelines. There were many thoughts going around about Rockefeller‚ he was being accused of doing some not so morally
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John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8‚ 1839 in Richford‚ New York to a traveling merchant who sold medicines‚ and was away most of the time. He was born the 2nd of six children who were all raised by their strict mother. As his father was away most of the time‚ he took it upon himself to be the man of the house and scrounged up money any way he could. This included taking jobs from neighbors‚ selling candy‚ and raising turkeys. While saving money he always gave a portion of it away to charities
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John D. Rockefeller Who is John D. Rockefeller? John D. Rockefeller is one of the country’s first industrialists. His success made him the world’s wealthiest men in history and the richest man who ever lived. In addition‚ Rockefeller was distinguished as a great philanthropy. Rockefeller’s mindset was all in American industry and philanthropy since the nineteenth century. His ambition rose him to the top. Rockefeller is known for
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John D. Rockefeller was a captain of industry who helped to make America strong. As much as a good as person he was‚ he was also a robber baron who used ruthless business practices to enrich himself. In 1839 – 1937‚ Rockefeller was a very important American industrialist‚ philanthropist and a founder of many important places. John D. Rockefellers’ business career was being the main founder and one of the chairmen of the Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller was an intellectual man in the organization
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John D. Rockefeller was businessman who’s most famously known as the entrepreneur who founded the Standard Oil Company. He is also one of the richest men in the history of the world‚ having a net worth of about $633 billion. In the late 1800s‚ Rockefeller decided to take up the business that would turn out to change the way business was done. By the early 1900s‚ Rockefeller’s Standard Oil was in charge of more than 90% of the United States’ oil production. In 1901‚ the government of the United States
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John D. Rockefeller: The Great American Industrialiser‚ Entrepreneur‚ and Philanthropist During the 18th and 19th centuries many industrial revolutions took place and modernized the American way of life. Advances were made that forever remodeled the landscape of American economics‚ industry‚ and politics. These innovations and advancements‚ however‚ did not come without much strife and toil. The innovators of the American Industrial Revolution were visionaries of their time. John D. Rockefeller
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