Industrialist and Millionaire’s Row resident John D. Rockefeller gave nearly $1.6 million to Western Reserve University before his death in 1937, including funding the construction of the Rockefeller ...
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The family’s fortune, established by America’s first billionaire John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founder of the Standard Oil Company in the late 19th century, has endured for generations ...