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John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (died 1937)
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John D. Rockefeller
American business magnate (1839–1937)
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history. Rockefeller was born into a large family in Upstate New York who moved several times before eventually…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Standard Oil Company
American oil company (1870–1911)
Standard Oil Company was a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was born on January 2, 1882,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)