Industrialist and Millionaire’s Row resident John D. Rockefeller gave nearly $1.6 million to Western Reserve University before his death in 1937, including funding the construction of the Rockefeller ...

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, upstate New York, to William Avery ("Bill") Rockefeller, a travelling peddler of novelties and "cures," and Eliza Davison Rockefeller, a devout Baptist.

John D'earth is the Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia where he teaches improvisation, jazz trumpet, jazz composition, and directs the UVA Jazz Ensemble. Jazz trumpeter and ...

American businessman John D. Rockefeller did not coin the term “fossil fuel” to trick people into thinking that oil was a rarity, despite widely shared claims online. An individual who features in a ...

This article originally appeared in the Sept. 15, 1930, issue of Forbes magazine. To most people, probably, John D. Rockefeller, Senior, is a legendary personality associated with the past, remote ...