This article is about the family. For the name in general, see Rockefeller.
Rockefeller family
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Nelson Rockefeller
Current region
New York, U.S.
Place of origin
Rhineland, Germany
Founded
1723, Philadelphia
301 years ago
Founder
Johann Peter Rockefeller
Titles
List
Vice President of the United States
Governor (of New York, West Virginia, and Arkansas)
United States Senator (West Virginia)
Connected families
Aldrich family McCormick family Stillman family
Estate(s)
Kykuit The Casements Rockwood Hall Tryon Hall
The Rockefeller family (/ˈrɒkəfɛlər/ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporation).[1] The family had a long association with, and control of, Chase Manhattan Bank.[2] By 1987, the Rockefellers were considered one of the most powerful families in American history.[3] The Rockefeller family originated in Rhineland in Germany and family members moved to the Americas in the early 18th century, while through Eliza Davison, with family roots in Middlesex County, New Jersey, John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr. and their descendants are also of Scots-Irish ancestry.[4]
^World's largest private fortune - see Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr., London: Warner Books, 1998. (p.370)
^The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis, David N. Gibbs, University of Chicago Press 1991, page 113
^Chernow, Ron (1998). Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller. New York: Vintage Books. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4000-7730-4. [William Rockefeller Sr.] met his future wife, Eliza Davison, at her father's farmhouse.... A prudent, straitlaced Baptist of Scottish-Irish descent, deeply attached to his daughter, John Davison must have sensed the world of trouble that awaited Eliza...
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