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John D. Rockefeller's painting by John Singer Sargent in 1917. Rockefeller had a long and controversial career in the oil industry followed by a long career in philanthropy. His image is an amalgam of all of these experiences and the many ways he was viewed by his contemporaries. These contemporaries include his former competitors, many of whom ...
United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 173 F. 177 (C.C.E.D. Mo. 1909) Holding; The Standard Oil Company conspired to restrain the trade and commerce in petroleum, and to monopolize the commerce in petroleum, in violation of the Sherman Act, and was split into many smaller companies. Several individuals, including John D. Rockefeller ...
John D. Rockefeller c. 1872, shortly after founding Standard Oil. Standard Oil's prehistory began in 1863, as an Ohio partnership formed by industrialist John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V. Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William Rockefeller's wife.
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, earning his immense fortune after gaining control of 90 percent of American oil production in the late 1800s. The oil ...
Kykuit (/ ˈ k aɪ k ə t / KY-kət), [3] [4] known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefeller family patriarch John D. Rockefeller.
John D. Rockefeller's leadership style helped him build an empire that propelled him to fame and fortune, writes award-winning historian Ron Chernow. 10 key management principles from John D ...
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big Oil was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. By 1904, the monopoly controlled 91% of the U.S. oil market and 85% of final sales. But it was in ...
After this initial success, her shift turned to John D. Rockefeller. She began by interviewing Henry H. Rogers, one of her father's fellow independents who became one of Rockefeller's colleagues, as well as others close to the inner workings of Standard Oil, that included one of the founders, Frank Barstow, as well. Eventually, Tarbell ...