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> ·   **BORN ON JULY 8, 1839** > ·   **BORN IN RICHFORD NEW YORK** > ·   **DIED ON MAY 3, 1937** > ·   **DIED IN ORMOND, FLORDIA** > ·   **HE HAD A POOR CHILDHOOD ON A FARM IN MORVIA NY.** > ·   **HE MOVED WHEN HE WAS IN HIS TEENS TO CLEVLAND OHIO** > ·   **HE STARTED HIS OWN COMMISSION HOUSE BUSINESS WITH MAURICE B. CLARK** > ·   **LATER ON HE FORMED A NEW COMPANY CALLLED ROCKEFELLER AND ANDREWS IN CLEVELAND, OHIO** > ·   **HE FORMED THE STANDARD OIL TRUST** > ·   **HE MADE HIS MONEY IN THE OIL BUSINESS WHERE HE BECAME THE RICHEST MAN IN MORDERN HISTORY** > ·   **HE HAD A NET WORTH OF $318.3 BILLION,ALSO THE FIRST US DOLLER BILLIONAIR** > ·   **90% OF THE OIL IN THE WORLD WAS REFINED THORUGH ONE O FHIS PLANTS** > ·   **HE LIVED IN OHIO, NEW YORK, AND FLORDIA** > > **THE FIRST OIL COMPANY HE HAD WAS SUCCESSFUL, BUT HE WANTED MORE MONEY. SO IN 1862 HE FOUND OUT THAT SAMUEL ANDREWS HAD A BETTER AND CHEPER WAY OF REFINING CRUDE PETROLEM. THEN SOLD HIS COMPANY AND INVESTED WITH ANDREWS AND STARTED THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY WHICH TOOK OFF.** > > **JOHN D.ROCKEFELLER WAS BOTH A ROBBER BARON AND A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY, BUT HE LEADNED MORE TOWARDS BEING A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY. SOME BELIEVED HE WAS A ROBBER BARON BECAUSE HE WAS RUTHLESS AND USED UNJUST MEANS TO MAKE HIS FOURTUNE .** **HE ALSO TRIED TO HAVE A TOTAL MONOPOLY BY TAKING OVER BARRAL MAKING COMPINES, DRYING SERVICES ,DEPOTS, WAREHOUSES ....ECT THEN THE RAILROAD FELL UNDER HIS CONTRACT MAKING HIM THE RICHEST MAN IN THE US. > > > JOHN ROCKEFELLER WAS ALSO KNOWN MORE AS A CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE GAVE 1/10 OF HIS EARNINGS TO THE SICK AND NEEDY. SOME ALSO BELIVED THAT BECAUSE HE WAS ABLE TO INOVATE THE INDUSTRAL HISTORY WITH HIS INGENIUS STRATIGES IN BIG BUSINSESS. HE ALSO FOUNDED THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION WHERE HE GAVE MILLLIONS AWAY TO SCHOOLS,HEALTH ORGINAZATIONS, AND CIVIL PROJECTS.**
 * **JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER**