Rockefeller short biography

John D. Rockefeller, an American industrialist a person who owns or oversees an industrial corporation and philanthropist a person who works to help mankind , founded the Standard Oil Company, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His father owned farm property and traded in many goods, including lumber and patent medicines.

His mother, who was quite the opposite of his father's fun-loving ways, brought up her large family very strictly. After living in Oswego, New York, for several years, the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in , when it was beginning to grow into a city.

John d rockefeller education

John graduated from high school there and excelled in mathematics. After graduation Rockefeller attended a commercial college for three months, after which he found his first job at the age of sixteen as a produce clerk. In , at age nineteen, he started his first company, Clark and Rockefeller, with a young Englishman. They grossed money earned before expenses four hundred fifty thousand dollars in the first year of trading.

Clark did the fieldwork while Rockefeller controlled office management, bookkeeping, and relationships with bankers. From the start Rockefeller showed a genius for organization and method. The firm prospered during the Civil War —65 , when Confederate Southern forces clashed with those of the Union North.