Question of the Day: John D. Rockefeller

By Susan2lamont

  • Birth

    Born in Richford, NY

  • Moved to Strongsville, Ohio

    Attended Cleveland's Central High School

  • Civil War

    Civil War began

  • Standard Oil

    founded Standard Oil

  • Expansion

    Rockefeller expanded into iron ore and ore transportation, forcing a collision with steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, and their competition became a major subject of the newspapers and cartoonists.

  • Diagnosed

    suffered from moderate depression and digestive troubles; he developed alopecia, the loss of some or all body hair.

  • Death

    Died at The Casements Mansion in Ormond Beach, FL