CNBC began raising questions last month about the authenticity of "The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Perspective, Ideology and Wisdom," a purported collection of letters by John D.

I dare say there are probably only a few of the readers of this column who have not heard the name John D. Rockefeller. Just the name Rockefeller conjures up images of wealth and power. Everything ...

NEW YORK (AP) – For the richest American family of their era, the goal was fittingly ambitious: “To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.” With that mission, underwritten by the vast ...

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery ("Bill") Rockefeller, a travelling peddler of novelties and "cures," and Eliza Davison Rockefeller, a devout Baptist.

In 1927, a $5 million donation from the richest man in America—the equivalent of $92 million today—secured the Great Smoky Mountains’ then-tenuous future for protection as a national park. But when ...

Edith Rockefeller with her children. Rockefeller Archives. In their long history, the Rockefellers have had very few rebels. Most of them have conformed to the rigorous moral and religious principles ...

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER—Allan Nevins —Scribner (2 vols.; $7.50). Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in ...

Joseph Pierson, a fifth-generation descendant of oil baron John D. Rockefeller, is the newly installed chair of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees. Joseph Pierson is a chronicler of his ...

The mystery around a top-selling Amazon book attributed to John D. Rockefeller has grown to include a university publisher, which denies any involvement in the book despite being listed as its ...