Rockefeller
Rockefeller names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Rockefeller John Davison
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
John Davison, an American millionaire. He was born at Richford, New York , July 8, 1839. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland. He began life as a clerk and worked his way along as a bookkeeper and cashier. In 1858 he became a member of a firm dealing in oil. In 1865 he built the Standard Oil works at Cleveland, and in 1870 the Standard Oil Company was incorporated with Rockefeller as President. Mr. Rockefeller is enormously wealthy. He owns a half interest in the Standard Oil Company which controls practically the world's supply of petroleum. He has large holdings of railroad stock and other securities. His income from oil is $20,000,000; his income from other sources is believed to be even greater, bringing the total up to not less than $53,000,000 a year. Mr. Rockefeller has given what seem large sums to various causes and institutions. The total, January 1, 1910, was placed at $132,760,000. The following is a statement of his principal gifts, an amount equivalent in all approximately to over two years' income: General education board $53,000,000 University of Chicago 25,309,000 Rush Medical College 6,000,000 Churches (known) 3,100,000 Missions (known) 2,300,000 Baptist foreign mission fund 2,000,000 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 4,600,000 Barnard College 1,375,000 Southern education fund 1,125,000 Union Theological Seminary 1,100,000 Harvard University 1,000,000 Baptist Educational Society 1,000,000 Yale University 1,000,000 Juvenile reformatories 1,000,000 Cleveland city parks 1,000,000 "Hookworm" fund 1,000,000 Nine Y. M. C. Associations 845,000 Teachers' College 500,000 Johns Hopkins 500,000 Vassar College 400,000 Brown University 325,000 Seven small colleges 320,000 McMasters College 275,000 Rochester Theological Seminary 250,000 Cornell University 250,000 Bryn Mawr College 250,000 Case School of Science, Cleveland 200,000 Oberlin College 200,000 Spelman Seminary, Atlanta 180,000 Newton Theological Seminary 150,000 Adelphi College 125,000 University of Wooster, Ohio 125,000 Children's Seaside Home 125,000 Presbyterian work in Egypt and the Soudan 100,000 Cleveland Social Settlement 100,000 Syracuse University 100,000 Smith College 100,000 Wellesley College 100,000 Columbia University 100,000 Dennison College 100,000 Curry memorial 100,000 Furman University 100,000 Lincoln memorial fund 100,000 University of Virginia 100,000 Cleveland Y. W. C. A 100,000 University of Nebraska 100,000 Arcadia University 100,000 Indiana University 50,000 Mount Holyoke College 50,000 Shurtleff College 35,000 School of Applied Design for Women 25,000 Bucknell University 25,000 William Jewell Institute 25,000 Howard College 25,000 Miscellaneous gifts prior to 1892 7,000,000 See Petroleum ; Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller JOHN DAVISON, an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN DAVISON, an American capitalist; born in Richford, Tioga co., N. Y., July 8, 1839. He engaged in business when he was 16, and soon showed ability in detail and discretion in management. When discoveries of petroleum roused speculative interest in 1860, he owned a refinery in Cleveland, O. In 1870 he became president of the Standard Oil Company, a monopolistic corporation, and through which he accumulated immense wealth. He made large donations to educational institutions, notably to the University of Chicago, to which he has given in all JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. about $23,000,000. In 1902 he founded the General Education Board (q. v.) to promote higher education, and later established the Rockefeller Foundation (q. v.) and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (q. v.) In November, 1920, he founded the Laura Spellman Foundation, in memory of his wife, with an endowment of $65,000,000.
Rockefeller JOHN DAVISON, JR., an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN DAVISON, JR., an American capitalist. He was born in Cleveland, O., in 1874, the son of a father generally recognized later as the richest man in the world. He studied privately and at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1897. He then became associated with his father in his business enterprises and took particular charge of the philanthropic activities associated with his name. He became a director of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., American Linseed Co., and Merchants Fire Insurance Corporation. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the Rockefeller Insti tute for Medical Research, the Bureau of Social Hygiene, and the International Health Commission. During the war he made large donations for the relief of suffering.
Rockefeller WILLIAM, an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an American capitalist, brother of John D. Rockefeller, born at Richford, N. Y., in 1841. He joined his brother in the oil refining business in Cleveland and from 1865 to 1911 was in charge of the New York business of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and was at the same time president of the Standard Oil Company of New York. He was a director of many important banks, railroads, mining corporations, etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's 1910 note that Standard Oil "controls practically the world's supply of petroleum" was true for barely another year: the Supreme Court ordered the trust dissolved in 1911 into 34 companies, whose descendants include ExxonMobil (Exxon and Mobil reunited in 1999) and Chevron. John D. Rockefeller himself lived until May 1937, dying at 97, and is still commonly reckoned the richest American in history when his fortune is measured against the economy of his day. The philanthropies the entries list have outlasted the oil business: the Rockefeller Institute became Rockefeller University in 1965, and the Rockefeller Foundation funded the yellow fever vaccine for which Max Theiler took the 1951 Nobel Prize. Collier's lists John D. Jr. in 1921 as a director of Colorado Fuel & Iron without mentioning the 1914 Ludlow Massacre there, an episode now central to his biography; he later paid for Rockefeller Center and gave the land for the United Nations headquarters in 1946.
Written for this edition, 2026.