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The Welser family, alongside the Fugger one of the most important families of merchant bankers in 16th-century Europe. The Baring family, owners of an important merchant bank in London in the 18th to 19th centuries. The Schröder family, a leading Hanseatic family of Hamburg in the 18th to 19th centuries.
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
Elon Musk has since surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest person in the history of the United States, and of modern history, according to size of wealth compared to GDP. On December 2024 his wealth reached $474 billion dollars (1.61% of USA's GDP at that year) compared to Rockefeller's 1.5% at the height of his wealth. [5]
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 ...
5. The Johnson Family: $44.8 Billion, Money Management. As descendants of the founder of Fidelity Investments, the Johnson family is one of the wealthiest families in the country, reports Forbes.
These families were influential in the development and leadership of arts, culture, science, medicine, law, politics, industry and trade in the United States. [2] They were almost exclusively white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs), [ 3 ] and most belonged to the Episcopal church and Quakerism .
The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The family includes Andrew Mellon, one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries, along with famous members in the judicial, banking, financial, business, and political professions.
The Morgan family is an American family and banking dynasty, which became prominent in the U.S. and throughout the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Members of the family amassed an immense fortune over the generations, primarily through the work of Junius Spencer (J.S.) Morgan (1813–1890) and John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan ...