World’s first billionaire made his fortune in Northeast Ohio, John D. Rockefeller left Cleveland over a tax dispute ...

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.

When William Avery Rockefeller lived near the present town of Park River, N.D., during the spring and summers of 1881 through 1889, his son, John D. Rockefeller, was becoming the richest man in the ...

Trust-busting and conservation were two prime preoccupations of President Theodore Roosevelt. At his instigation John Davison Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust was ultimately smashed to bits. At his ...

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 ...

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown ’97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III ...

Last summer Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. took three of their sons for a trip in Europe. One of the boys looked after all the funds; another looked after the baggage; the third ran errands.

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Twelve rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28, Feb. 4), the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, ...