https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl Robber Baron en-us 2017-01-13 19:31:00 UTC 2017-01-13 19:56:29 UTC hello@padlet.com kirstensmith1998 https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139810 1839-1937
John Davison Rockefeller, the son of a traveling salesman, was born on July 8, 1839, in Richforrd, New York Industrious even as a boy, the future oil magnate earned money by raising turkeys, selling candy and doing jobs for neighbors. In 1853, the Rockefeller family moved to the Cleveland, Ohio area, where John attended high school then briefly studied bookkeeping at a commercial college.
In 1855, at age 16, he found work as an office clerk at a Cleveland commission firm that bought, sold and shipped grain, coal and other commodities. He considered September 26, the day he started the position and entered the business world, so significant that as an adult he commemorated this “job day” with an annual celebration.
In 1864, Rockefeller married Laura Celestia “Cettie” Spelman (1839-1915), an Ohio native. The Rockefellers went on to have four daughters (three of whom survived to adulthood) and one son.
In his personal life, Rockefeller was devoutly religious, a temperance advocate and an avid golfer. His goal was to reach the age of 100; however, he died at 97 on May 23, 1937, at The Casements, his winter home in Ormond Beach, Florida. He was buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.]]> 2017-01-13 19:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139810 kirstensmith1998 https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139887 In 1870, Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, along with his younger brother William (1841-1922), Henry Flagler (1830-1913) and a group of other men. John Rockefeller was its president and largest shareholder.
Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors, in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. In 1890, the U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, the first federal legislation prohibiting trusts and combinations that restrained trade. Two years later, the Ohio Supreme Court dissolved the Standard Oil Trust; however, the businesses within the trust soon became part of Standard Oil of New Jersey, which functioned as a holding company. In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found Standard Oil in violation of anti-trust laws and ordered it to dissolve.]]> 2017-01-13 19:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139887 kirstensmith1998 https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139935 In 1859, Rockefeller and a partner established their own commission firm. He entered the then-fledgling oil business in 1863 by investing in a Cleveland, Ohio, refinery. In 1865, Rockefeller borrowed money to buy out some of his partners and take control of the refinery, which had become the largest in Cleveland. Over the next few years, he acquired new partners and expanded his business interests in the growing oil industry. In 1870, he established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880's controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. 
Rockefeller’s enormous wealth and success made him a target of muckraking journalists, reform politicians and others who viewed him as a symbol of corporate greed and criticized the methods with which he’d built his empire.]]> 2017-01-13 19:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139935 kirstensmith1998 https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139979 One of the charitable organizations established by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. was the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, founded in 1909. Less than 20 years after its creation, the Commission had achieved its primary goals, the successful eradication of hookworm disease across the southern United States. During his life Rockefeller donated more than $500 million to various philanthropic causes.
Rockefeller donated more than half a billion dollars to various educational, religious and scientific causes. Among his activities, he funded the establishment of the University of Chicago and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University).]]> 2017-01-13 19:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147139979 kirstensmith1998 https://padlet.com/kirstensmith1998/me9xrf2i9ubl/wish/147140827 http://www.biography.com/people/john-d-rockefeller-20710159
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