Long before he became the richest man in the world, John D. Rockefeller, as a little boy, was both tested and thwarted by his scamming father who sold miracle elixirs among dozens of other scams. His ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARREN, Ohio – The Rockefeller family treasures have returned to Northeast Ohio – for the next six months, at least. A new exhibit at the Medici Museum of Art in Warren chronicles the rise of John D.

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 ...

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER—Allan Nevins —Scribner (2 vols.; $7.50). Bright particular star of that demagogy-by-document which Roosevelt I called muckraking was Ida Minerva Tarbell. She had been brought up in ...

The mystery around a top-selling Amazon book attributed to John D. Rockefeller has grown to include a university publisher, which denies any involvement in the book despite being listed as its ...