Billionaire John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 to May 23, 1937) continues to rank as one of the richest men in modern times. He rose from modest beginnings to become the founder of Standard Oil in ...

Many persons, of envious temper, or lacking in aesthetic sense, have sneered at the face of John D. Rockefeller Sr ... greatest of U. S. portrait painters, had another opinion of that face.

Rockefeller Sr. with family. Rockefeller Archives. The so-called Cleveland Massacre was the beginning of John D. Rockefeller's drive toward an oil monopoly, and it is considered one of his ...