Who Is John D. Rockefeller?

John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1839 in Richford, New York to a traveling merchant who sold medicines, and was away most of the time. He was born the 2nd of six children who were all raised by their strict mother. As his father was away most of the time, he took it upon himself to be the man of the house and scrounged up money any way he could. This included taking jobs from neighbors, selling candy, and raising turkeys. While saving money he always gave a portion of it away to charities or the church, and this continued until his death. In 1853 Rockefeller’s family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from High school, in Cleveland, Ohio and three months of commercial college, at Chancellor University, he got his first real job as a produce clerk. At age nineteen he started a company with a friend called Clark and Rockefeller. The business thrived and, Rockefeller seeing the profit to be made, branched out into oil refining. After 2 years of investing into oil refinery and buying more refineries, he bought the company out from Clark, for $72,500, and was renamed Rockefeller and Andrews. Samuel Andrews being the man joined the firm in branching out into oil refinery. Rockefeller was a very competitive businessman and was determined to buy out his partners to take control of the company. He achieved this and
Rockefeller is viewed as the wealthiest philanthropist in the world, who owned most of the oil. Many things have also been built because of John D. Rockefeller such as, the Rockefeller center (built by one of his sons); many oil companies today were derived from Standard Oil, the Spelman College that Rockefeller helped finance, the University of Chicago, and Rockefeller University. Rockefeller caused the Sherman Antitrust Act, which essentially stopped any further monopolies. He also helped many charities that certainly helped many lives. Essentially without Rockefeller the oil money might have gone to different