John Rockerfeller
Date Submitted: 12/21/2003 23:50:32
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (435 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (435 words)
Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937), American industrialist. Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio. He became a bookkeeper in Cleveland at the age of 16. In 1862 he went into business with entrepreneur Henry Flagler and with Samuel Andrews, the inventor of an inexpensive process for the refinement of crude petroleum. In 1870 their firm, Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, changed its name to the Standard Oil Company, often referred …
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