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John D Rockefeller was born July 8 1839, Was the second of six children to be born.
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He attended High school in Cleavland, Ohio then move strait from there to a commercial College for book Keeping.
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John D Rockefeller Left High school 1855 to go to a college to take a business course.
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He worked as an office clerk at a Cleavland Commision firm.
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Rockefeller Married Laura Spelman At the age of 25 years old. Soon after they got married they had 4 daughters and 1 son.
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In 1865 John D Rockefeller Buys out some of his partners to take control of the oil refinery.
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The standard oil Company was incorporated in Ohio in 1870.
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All of these companies controlled 90 percent of the nation's oil refineries and pipelines.
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Standard Oil Company was founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland Ohio in 1870 and in just a little over a decade it had attained control of nearly all the oil refineries in the U.S.
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In 1892 Rockefeller Donated over 80 million dollars to help build the University of Chicago.
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Rockefeller was 57 years old when he decided to retire from day to day working.
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John D Rockefeller Died may 23 1937, He lived to be 97 years old. He died in a house in Florida.
