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John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller .
John D. Rockefeller III, in full John Davison Rockefeller III, (born March 21, 1906, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 10, 1978, Mount Pleasant, New York), American philanthropist, eldest of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. After graduating from Princeton University (1929), he joined the family’s enterprises, becoming, by 1931, trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the ...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He has been widely considered the wealthiest American of all time [1] [2] and the richest person in modern history. [3] [4] Rockefeller was born into a large family in Upstate New York that moved several times before eventually ...
The eldest brother, John D. Rockefeller III, was born in 1906 and developed an interest in Japan and Asia after World War II. He collected Asian art, rehabilitated the Japan Society, and organized the Asia Society (1956). John D. Rockefeller III was also instrumental in the establishment of Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts (1956), New York.
John D. Rockefeller III is the leading fundraiser for the construction of New York's ambitious new complex of facilities for the performing arts. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., dies at age 86.
John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York, about midway between Binghamton and Ithaca. His father, William Avery Rockefeller, was a "pitch man" — a "doctor" who claimed he ...
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men as America's first billionaire and a major philanthropist.
Financier and Philanthropist. Born into the wealthy and socially prominent Rockefeller family, he was the eldest son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He attended primary education at the Browning School in New York City, and at the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut. In 1929, he...
John D. Rockefeller 3d, the 72-year-old philanthropist and eldest member of one of the nation's wealthiest families, was killed last night in a head‐on collision of cars in Westchester County.
John D. Rockefeller is reported to be the wealthiest man in America with about $150,000,000 and an income of $25,000 per day. August 2, 1896 An article documents Rockefeller’s life and his rise to wealth, from poverty to possessing millions of dollars.