On July 8, John Davison Rockefeller would have been 98. The late Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who knew him well and served him faithfully, once said of Mr. Rockefeller: “Sane in every respect save one—he is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...