A portrait of John D. Rockefeller circa 1900, after he had built Standard Oil into the largest oil company in the United States. Oscar White/Wikimedia Commons The story of John D. Rockefeller is ...

Billionaire John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 to May 23, 1937) continues to rank as one of the richest men in modern times. He rose from modest beginnings to become the founder of Standard Oil in ...

It’s as if John D. Rockefeller is reaching out from the grave to reassemble his old Standard Oil monopoly. ConocoPhillips’ $22.5 billion all-stock acquisition of Marathon Oil—both former pie ...

The Rockefeller name has been synonymous with the oil industry since John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'s Standard Oil Company became the dominant source of petroleum in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th ...

Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big Oil was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. By 1904, the monopoly controlled 91% of the U.S. oil market and 85% of final sales. But it was in ...

Standard Oil moves into new headquarters at 26 Broadway in New York. The address will become synonymous with Rockefeller's business empire. At age 13, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., suffers a nervous ...

This fortune and fame are largely due to one family member in particular, John D. Rockefeller, founder of the infamous Standard Oil Company. With famous New York buildings still bearing the ...