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6 unusual facts about William Rockefeller


Clendenin J. Ryan

He and Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller were stockholders in the Enterprise Development Corporation, a closed end investment trust for the heirs of William Rockefeller and Thomas Fortune Ryan, Clendenin's entrepreneurial grandfather, who invested heavily in Copper Mining and ore smelting.

Faith Rockefeller Model

Faith Rockefeller Model (May 30, 1909 – July 2, 1960) was a daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) and granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. (1841–1922).

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr.

He was a grandson of William A. Rockefeller, Jr., co-founder of Standard Oil, great-grandson of Remington Arms Company founder Marcellus Hartley, and grandnephew of Standard Oil's other co-founder, John D. Rockefeller.

SS William Rockefeller

SS William Rockefeller was a tanker ship built in 1921 and named after financier William Rockefeller.

William Rockefeller

William Jr and Almira's second son William Goodsell Rockefeller married Sarah Elizabeth "Elsie" Stillman, the elder daughter of National City Bank president James Jewett Stillman and Sarah Elizabeth Stillman, and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller.

First, they purchased Anaconda Properties from Marcus Daly for $39 million, with the understanding that the check was to be deposited in the bank and remain there for a definite time (National City Bank was run by Rockefeller's friends).


Edith Cummings

Cummings' classmates included fellow Chicago socialite Ginevra King, future philanthropist Katharine Ordway, Isabel Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller family, a granddaughter of William Rockefeller), and Prescott Bush's sisters Mary and Margaret (aunts to U.S. President George H.W. Bush and great aunts to George W. Bush).

John Sterling Rockefeller

Rockefeller is a grandson of Standard Oil co-founder, William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. (1841—1922) and businessman James Jewett Stillman (1850—1918).

Pujo Committee

The Pujo Report singled out individual bankers including Paul Warburg, Jacob H. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Frank E. Peabody, William Rockefeller and Benjamin Strong, Jr..


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