John D Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr
American
Industrialist. - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Standard Oil Company | |||
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co |
Lineage
- Father William Rockefeller Sr
- Brother: William Rockefeller
Industrialist. - AsNotedIn
Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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Standard Oil Company | |||
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1839/07/08 | Born in Richford, New York | ||||||
1863/06/00 | R G Dun and Co reports that produce merchant JD Rockefeller "is not much of a businessman, but had some capital, it is said, advanced by his father, who is reputed well off." JDR had borrowed $1,000 from his father, a conman, at 10 percent interest. | Business | |||||
1870/06/00 | John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil in Ohio, Chairman 1870-1897 | Work | |||||
1884/00/00 | John D Rockefeller buys the Huntington's furnished townhouse to, originally at 4 W 54th St (lost) in Manhattan, NYC. | Home | Worsham-Rockefeller Master bedroom | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | |||
1890/00/00 | Financier | Cleveland Arcade | Cleveland | ||||
1892/00/00 | Judson Memorial Church and Judson Hall and Tower are built for $240,578, Stanford White served as primary architect | Chief Benefactor | Judson Memorial Church, Campanile and Judson Hall | New York City | |||
1893/00/00 | John D Rockefeller buys land in the area of Mount Pleasant, New York as early as 1893. | Owner | Kykuit | Mount Pleasant, NY | |||
1906/01/23 | Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. | Audience member | Carnegie Hall | New York City | Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee | ||
1914/00/00 | YMCA Building is built in the Italianate Architectural style with the assistance of a grant from John D Rockefeller. Today it houses the Counseling Center and the MSU Post Office, and has been designated a Mississippi Landmark. | Benefactor | Starkville | Mississippi | |||
1918/00/00 | Winter home 1918-1937 | Home | The Casements | Ormond Beach | |||
1919/00/00 | To honor his wife, John D Rockefeller Sr establishes the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, with funds totaling almost $74 million. | Benefactor | |||||
1925/00/00 | Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires the original Cloister and most of its collection | Benefactor | Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters | New York City | |||
1929/10/21 | The Edison Institute is dedicated by Herbert Hoover. The attendees include Marie Curie, George Eastman, John D Rockefeller, Will Rogers, and Orville Wright. The dedication is broadcast on radio. | Dignitary | The Henry Ford Museum | Dearborn | |||
1937/05/23 | Dies at The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida | Founder | The Casements | Ormond Beach |
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