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Rockefeller, John Davison
Publication: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History Publication Date: 01-JAN-00 |
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COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Group, COPYRIGHT 2005 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON
The name Rockefeller has become synonymous with the idea of enormous personal wealth. In ordinary language one many hear the phrase "rich as Rockefeller," an enduring popular legacy for the man who built the largest fortune ever up to that time seen in the United States. John D. Rockefeller (1839–1932) created an oil empire that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution.
John Davison Rockefeller was born in 1839 in Richford, New York. His Baptist upbringing taught the young Rockefeller to be...
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