BP AMERICA, formerly the Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), which was the original Standard Oil Co. founded by JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER in 1870 along with his brother, William, HENRY M. FLAGLER , SAMUEL ANDREWS, and ...

He rose from modest beginnings to become the founder of Standard Oil in 1870 and ruthlessly set about destroying his competitors to create a monopoly of the oil industry. He branched out to ...

He incorporated the business in 1870 as Standard Oil. Leading locals who worked or invested there included Henry Flagler, Oliver Payne, Cyrus Eaton, the Severances and many others. Like ...

In 1870 it wasincorporated as the Standard Oil Com-pany of Ohio, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The parties interested were John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Steven V.

Now we demand of industry whether General MacArthur would prefer to stare at Walter Teagle, Frank Howard, and the other officials of Standard Oil, members of a conspiracy with a Nazi corporation ...

“He bought his first oil refinery in 1862, and by 1870 set up Standard Oil Company of Ohio, made secret agreements with railroads to ship his oil with them if they gave him rebates—discounts ...

On this day in 1870, Rockefeller incorporated the company ... had to tip her hat in the otherwise-brutal history of Standard Oil that she published in 1904: “There is nothing which concerned ...

Standard Oil had two refineries in Cleveland when it began in 1870. Two years later, it controlled 21 of 26 refineries in Cleveland and had refineries in Pennsylvania and New York. But that growth ...

Heirs to the oil fortune created by John D. Rockefeller, who founded Standard Oil in 1870, are exiting the family business. The Rockefeller Family Fund, a charity that supports causes related to ...

From 1870 to 1911, John D. Rockefeller built what was arguably the single most impressive business organization in history: Standard Oil. Mr. Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically ...