When William Avery Rockefeller lived near the present town of Park River, N.D., during the spring and summers of 1881 through 1889, his son, John D. Rockefeller, was becoming the richest man in the ...

World’s first billionaire made his fortune in Northeast Ohio, John D. Rockefeller left Cleveland over a tax dispute ...

Newspapers announced John D. Rockefeller as the first U.S. billionaire 109 years ago. Today there are more than 900 American billionaires.

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In 1927, a $5 million donation from the richest man in America - the equivalent of $92 million today - secured the Great Smoky Mountains’ then-tenuous future for protection as a national park. But ...

Standard Oil founder Rockefeller was one of the greatest Wall Street magnates Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by ...

Oysters Rockefeller is the kind of oyster dish even shellfish skeptics can get behind. The delightful concoction of baked or broiled oysters on the half shell, drenched in an herbaceous, buttery green ...

I dare say there are probably only a few of the readers of this column who have not heard the name John D. Rockefeller. Just the name Rockefeller conjures up images of wealth and power. Everything ...

The eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, she founded a nonprofit to support Indigenous culture and helped fill two institutions with artifacts. By Sam Roberts Ann Rockefeller Roberts, a champion of ...