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Birth
John Davison Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839. The parents of John were William Rockefeller Sr. as the father and Eliza Davison as the mother. John was Also born in Richford NY, and had a successful family as a baby. -
Johns Journey through Business
John D Rockefeller started his career at age 16, when John was 16 he had found a work as a office clerk at a Cleveland Commission firm that sold and shipped grain, coal and other items or objects. As he got this job he was very successful, he had started this whole job on September 26, 1859. -
Own Business'
In 1859 John D Rockefeller and a partner had established their own commission firm, but this company has different types of soil, rock, and metal that they sell out to the city. -
Civil War Breakdown
John D Rockefeller had broke when he had heard that the Cival War was coming, so John had hired troops to go after the enemy team, he even hired his son to go into war. -
Oil Business
John D Rockefeller and several partners had soon entered an oil making company, that would ship oils from one country to another. They had joined this company/industry by investing into a Cleveland Refinery. -
Marriage
John D Rockefeller had soon married a woman named Laura Celestia, which this female was an Ohio Native, whos father was a strong merchant. -
Journey through the US
In the 1870's, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Industry, increased by 90% across the US. He nearly made about 1 million dollars by then. after all of this happening, he became the richest man in history by 2007. -
Big Money
As you know John D Rockefeller was a famous person that had improved a lot of industries. But the #1 thing he did was giving out some of his money for education, and altogether he gave out about $530 million dollars. -
Retiring
John D Rockefeller had then retired from the day to day oil business in the mid 1890's. -
John as a Devout Baptist
In 1895, John D Rockefeller, had partnered up with some charitable people, that had gave money to the companies. But even though his partners were doing so much work, John had been named one of the most respected philanthropists in the worlds history. -
John D Rockefeller's Money
When John D Rockefeller had retired, he had received a total of $500 million, from the oil company and his own business. That's not even his life savings, his life savings had rose up to about $1,000,000,000. The people that controlled had also timed his life savings total by $500. -
Death
John D. Rockefeller died on May 23, 1937, John died from a disease/medical issue called Arteriosclerosis. Arteriosclerosis is a disease that infects the arteries, causing the walls of the artery tube to swell and get blocked overtime.
