He was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839. John Davison Rockefeller moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 14. He feel fear of hard work, he manage on a number of small-business journey as a teenager, landing his first real office job at age 16, as an assistant bookkeeper with Hewitt & Tuttle, commission merchants and produce shippers.
Rockefeller married Laura Celestia Spelman a Ohio resident whose father was a productive merchant, politician and abolitionist active in the Underground Railroad. Rockefeller started out small and then made his fortune via practical and …show more content…
Then Mr. Rockefeller with other partners got together to start to make a Standard Oil Trust, which had control of of a lot of companies that had Standard to control the domination of it, and the distribution it had, and selling and other things that the Oil Industry had in their policy of work.
Standard’s domination of the oil industry came under evaluation from the public and the government. In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in an attack to limit the power of trusts,by taking out every contract, combination in the form of trust or any other way, or practice, in caution of trade or business. Standard lost a Sherman-related impeachment in Ohio in 1892, but it was later able to get into New Jersey as a holding company.
John D. Rockefeller also had the good thing of giving money out for charity, which he gave mostly like half or more than a billion dollars to different things, like schools, churches, or scientific causes during the united state history.
One of the most tragic things that happened to the Rockefeller family was that his daughter died during his infancy, which his name was