The 'Rockefeller family', the family of
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) ("Senior") and his brother
William Rockefeller (1841-1922), is an
American industrial,
banking,
philanthropic, and
political family of
German American origin that made the world's largest private fortune in the
oil business during the late 19th and early 20th century, primarily through the
Standard Oil Company.
[1] The family is also known for its long association with and financial interest in the
Chase Manhattan Bank, now
JP Morgan Chase.
Name and origin
The name is an Americanized version of the German ''Rokkenfelder'' or ''Rockenfeller'', meaning ''from Rockenfeld''. This indicates the latter origins of the family, which can be traced back to the villages of Ehlscheid, Segendorf and Fahr, (all suburbanised to
Neuwied). These are neighbored to the small settlement of Rockenfeld - part of Neuwied's quarter Feldkirchen.
[2] In Germany, ''Rockenfeller'' is known as a family name.
However, it is sometimes stated that the Rockefeller surname originated from the ''Roquefeuille'', from the region of
Limousin,
France. If true, that may explain why they were located in the
Midwest, where most of the French immigrants settled. This
New France, which consisted of 15 states north of
Louisiana, was home to more than 150,000 [citation needed] Frenchmen and women in 1803 when Louisiana was sold to the USA. In France, the version ''Roquefeuille'' is also known as a family name. Back in the 16th century, some French nobles were
Protestant and fled the absolutist
Catholic regime to go to Germany. They dispersed throughout the German kingdoms and
Switzerland. This is generally the favored version of historians to explain the ultimate roots of the Rockefeller name. The name may also come from the "Roquefeuil", a Catholic family from the region of
Languedoc (France).
The earliest known ancestor is ''Goddart Rockenfeller'' (1590, Fahr).
[3] The Rockefeller family is descended from ''Johann Peter Rockenfeller'' (1682–1763), grandson of Goddart, and Johann Thiel Rockenfeller (1695–1796), great-grandson of Goddart. Johann Peter immigrated to
New Jersey from the German Palatinate in 1723 and acquired large landholdings.
His grandson, William, married a distant relative, Christina, the granddaughter of a cousin of Johann Peter. This marriage produced a son, Godfrey, who married ''Lucy Avery'' in 1806. Avery's ancestors were part of the Puritan tide from Devon, England to Massachusetts around 1630. Lucy Avery could justly claim descent from
Edmund Ironside, the English king, crowned in 1016.
Godfrey and Lucy eventually shifted to the remote, backwater stagecoach stop of
Richford, in the western part of New York State. Their son,
William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906) was a trader in salt and timber who adopted a vagabond life as a confidence man and was known as "Big Bill", who sired two illegitimate children to his housekeeper. He married up, to ''Eliza Davison'' in 1837; her father, John Davison, was relatively rich for the time. Their second child was
John Davison Rockefeller, and their third
William Rockefeller.
[4]
Generational philanthropy
The members of the Rockefeller family are noted for their
philanthropy; a ''Rockefeller Archive Center'' study in 2004 documents an incomplete list of 72 major institutions that the family has created and/or endowed up to the present day.
[5] Historically, the major focus of their benefactions have been in the educational, health and conservation areas. However, through its principal philanthropic organisation, the
Rockefeller Foundation (established in 1913), and more recently the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1940) and the ''Rockefeller Family Fund'' (1967), this focus extends outwards to encompass every major facet of American society.
Family leaders in both philanthropy and business have included
John D. Sr.,
John D. Jr. ("Junior"),
John D. III,
Laurance Rockefeller and
David Rockefeller, who is the family's current patriarch. Several family members have held high public office, including
Vice President of the United States (
Nelson Rockefeller),
United States Senator (
Jay Rockefeller),
state Governor (Nelson, Jay, and
Winthrop Rockefeller), and
Lieutenant Governor (
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller). Another noted family member was
Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson, an
anthropologist who came to media attention after he was presumed killed in New Guinea in 1961.
The corporate, financial and personal affairs of the family - numbering around 150 blood relatives of John D. Rockefeller - are run from the
family office, ''Room 5600'', known officially as "Rockefeller Family and Associates". It comprises three floors of the
GE Building in
Rockefeller Center; all private family legal matters are handled by the family-associated New York law firm of
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Room 5600 is also the base of the current family historian, ''Peter J. Johnson'', who assisted with
David Rockefeller's ''Memoirs'', published in 2002.
To distinguish the generations and facilitate communication, the fourth generation is generically known as "''The Cousins''" (24 in all, with 21 still living) and the younger family members are known as the "''Fifth/Sixth''" generation. Many if not all of these family members are involved in institutionalised philanthropic pursuits. Family links are solidified through the practice of ritualised family meetings - which started with the regular "brothers' meetings" held in Room 5600 or in their respective private residences, beginning in 1945. Family get-togethers are held today at the "''Playhouse''", in the
Westchester County family estate of ''Pocantico'', in June (the "cousins weekend") and December of each year (see
Kykuit).
The edifice complex
Often credited with an "edifice complex", members of the family have been heavily involved in myriad real estate construction projects in the US over the span of the twentieth century. Chief among them:
★ The
International House of New York - New York, 1924 (Junior) {Involvement: John D. 3rd, Abby Aldrich, David & Peggy, David Jr., Abby O'Neill};
★ The
College of William and Mary's ''Wren Building'' - Virginia, from 1927 (Renovation funded by Junior);
★
Colonial Williamsburg - Virginia, from 1927 onwards (Junior, Abby Aldrich, John D. 3rd), historical restoration;
★ The
Museum of Modern Art - New York, from 1929 (Abby Aldrich, Junior, Blanchette, Nelson, David, David Jr., Sharon Percy Rockefeller);
★ The
Riverside Church - New York, 1930 (Junior);
★
The Cloisters - New York, from 1934 (Junior);
★ The ''Interchurch Center'' - New York, 1948 (Junior);
★ The
Asia Society (Asia House) - New York, 1956 (John D. 3rd);
★
One Chase Manhattan Plaza - New York, 1961 (David);
★ The ''Nelson A. Rockefeller''
Empire State Plaza - Albany, New York, 1962 (Nelson);
★ The
Lincoln Center - New York, 1962 (John D. 3rd);
★ The
World Trade Center Twin Towers - New York, 1973 (David and Nelson);
★ The
Embarcadero Complex - San Francisco, 1974 (David);
★ The
Council of the Americas/''Americas Society'' - New York, 1985 (David).
In addition to this is Senior and Junior's involvement in seven major housing developments: ''Forest Hill Estates'' in Cleveland, Ohio; the ''City Housing Corporation's efforts at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens (NY); ''Thomas Garden Apartments'' in the Bronx (NY); ''Paul Lawrence Dunbar Housing'' in Harlem; ''Lavoisier Apartments'' in Manhattan (NY); ''Van Tassel Apartments'' in Tarrytown, New York; and a development in Radburn, New Jersey.
[6] A further project involved
David Rockefeller in a major middle-income housing development when he was elected in 1947 as chairman of
Morningside Heights Inc. in
Manhattan by fourteen major institutions that were based in the area, including
Columbia University. The result, in 1951, was the six-building apartment complex known as ''Morningside Gardens''.
[7]
Senior's donations led to the formation of the
University of Chicago in 1889, the Nobel prize-winning University where the first American Nobel Prize in science was produced in 1907, and notable for the
Chicago School of Economics.
[8]. This was one instance of a long family and Rockefeller Foundation tradition of financially supporting
Ivy League and other colleges and universities over the generations - seventy-five in total. This includes
Harvard University,
Princeton University,
Stanford University,
Yale University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Brown University,
Columbia University, and
Cornell University. This financial assistance extends overseas to the likes of
London School of Economics and
University College London, amongst many others.
[9]
Senior (and Junior) also created the Rockefeller University in 1901; the ''General Education Board'' in 1902, which later (1923) evolved into the ''International Education Board''; the ''Rockefeller Sanitary Commission'' in 1910; the ''Bureau of Social Hygiene'' in 1913 (Junior); the ''International Health Commission'' in 1913; and the ''China Medical Board'' in 1915.
In the 1920s, the International Education Board granted important fellowships to pathbreakers in modern mathematics, such as S.Banach, B.L.van der Waerden and Andri Weil, which was a formative part of the gradual shift of world mathematics to the US over this period. To help promote cooperation between physics and mathematics Rockefeller funds also supported the erection of the new Mathematical Institute in
Gottingen University between 1926 and 1929, while the rise of probability and mathematical statistics owes much to the creation of the Institute Henri Poincari in Paris by American philanthropy also around this time.
[10]
Junior also financially supported numerous other major institutions, notable among them his ongoing support for the highly influential foreign policy think tank, the New York
Council on Foreign Relations, established in 1921. In 1978 the
Rockefeller Foundation initiated the founding of the high-powered financial advisory council called the
Group of Thirty, as well as many grants to a myriad of universities, think tanks and other institutions.
Junior was also responsible for the creation and endowment of the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which operates the restored historical town at
Williamsburg, Virginia, one of the most extensive historic restorations ever undertaken in history.
Conservation
Beginning with Rockefeller Senior, the family has been a major force in land conservation. Over the generations, it has created more than 20 national parks and open spaces, including the
Cloisters,
Acadia National Park, Forest Hill Park, the Nature Conservancy, and
Grand Teton National Park, amongst many others.
Rockefeller Jr, and his son
Laurance (and his son ''Larry'') were particularly prominent in this area. Most of these efforts were accomplished without public fanfare.
The family was honored for its conservation efforts in November, 2005, by the
National Audubon Society, one of America's largest and oldest conservation organizations, at which over 30 family members attended. At the event, the society's president, John Flicker, notably stated: ''"Cumulatively, no other family in America has made the contribution to conservation that the Rockefeller family has made".''
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International politics/finance/economics
The family has been awarded the annual
UNA-USA’s ''Global Leadership Award'', along with other recipients over time, including
Bill Clinton and
Michael Bloomberg. Members of the Rockefeller family into the fourth generation (especially the prominent banker and statesman
David Rockefeller, who is the present family patriarch) have been heavily involved in international politics, and have donated money, established or been involved in the following major international institutions:
★ The
Council on Foreign Relations - David, David Jr., Nelson, John D. 3rd, John D. IV (Jay), Peggy Dulany, Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
★ The
Trilateral Commission - David, Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
★ The
Bilderberg Group - David, John D. IV.
★ The
Asia Society - John D. 3rd, John D. IV, Charles, David.
★ The
Population Council - John D. 3rd.
★ The
Council of the Americas - David.
★ The
Group of Thirty - The Rockefeller Foundation.
★ The
World Economic Forum - David.
★ The
Brookings Institution - Junior.
★ The
Peterson Institute (Formerly the ''Institute for International Economics'') - David.
★ The
International Executive Service Corps - David.
★ The
Institute for Pacific Relations - Junior.
★ The
League of Nations - Junior.
★ The
United Nations - Junior, John D. 3rd, Nelson, David, Peggy Dulany, Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
★ The
United Nations Association - David.
The family archives
The ''Rockefeller Archive Center'', a division of
Rockefeller University, is a vast three-story underground bunker built below the ''Martha Baird Rockefeller'' ''Hillcrest'' mansion on the family estate at Pocantico (see
Kykuit). Along forty-foot-long walls of shelves on rails, patrolled by ten full-time archivists, is the entire repository of personal and official papers and correspondence of the complete family and its members, along with historical papers of its numerous foundations, as well as other non-family philanthropic institutions. These include: the
Commonwealth Fund, ''Charles E. Culpeper Foundation'', ''Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust'', and the ''John and Mary R. Markle Foundation''.
In total, it holds over 70 million pages of documents and contains the collections of forty-two scientific, cultural, educational and philanthropic organizations.
Only the expurgated records of deceased family members are publicly available to scholars and researchers; all records pertaining to living members are closed to historians. As
Nelson Rockefeller's researcher, Cary Reich, discovered however, in the case of Nelson's voluminous 3,247 cubic feet of papers, about only one third of these files had been processed (that is, each page vetted by the archivists) and released to researchers up to 1996. He reports that it will be many years before all the papers will be open to the public, despite Nelson having died in 1979.
[12]
The Center maintains that this awesome repository of records, covering 140-plus years of the records of the family, in addition to non-Rockefeller philanthropic collections, gives unique insights into United States and world issues and social developments in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
Records in the collection are only available up until the early 1960s, generally 1961. Major subjects in the collection include:
★ Agriculture,
★ The Arts,
★ African-American history,
★ Education,
★ International Relations,
★ Economic Development,
★ Labor,
★ Medicine,
★ Philanthropy,
★ Politics,
★ Population,
★ Religion,
★ Social Sciences,
★ Social Welfare,
★ Women's history.
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Family wealth
The combined wealth of the family -- its total assets and investments plus the individual wealth of its members -- has never been known with any precision. In 1992, family members estimated it to be between US$5 billion to $10 billion. The records of the family archives relating to both the family and individual members' net worth is closed to researchers.
[14]
From the outset, and even today, the family wealth has been under the complete control of the male members of the dynasty, through the family office. Despite strong-willed wives who had influence over their husbands' decisions -- such as the pivotal female figure
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of Junior -- in all cases they received allowances only and were never given even partial responsibility for the family fortune.
[15]
Much of the wealth has been locked up in the notable family trust of 1934 (which holds the bulk of the fortune and matures on the death of the fourth generation), and the trust of 1952, both administered by the
Chase Manhattan Bank. These trusts have consisted of shares in the successor companies to
Standard Oil and other diversified investments, as well as the family's considerable real estate holdings. They are administered by a powerful trust committee that oversees the fortune. It has consisted over time of high-profile individuals, which have included
Paul Volcker,
William G. Bowen (former president of
Princeton University) and
John C. Whitehead (retired co-chairman of
Goldman Sachs).
Management of this fortune today also rests with professional money managers who oversee the principal holding company, ''Rockefeller Financial Services'', which controls all the family's investments, now that
Rockefeller Center is no longer owned by the family. The present chairman is
David Rockefeller, Jr.
In 1992, it had five main arms:
★ ''Rockefeller & Co.'' (Money management: Universites have invested some of their endowments in this company);
★
Venrock Associates (Venture Capital: an early investment in
Apple Computer was one of many it made in
Silicon Valley entrepreneurial start-ups);
★ ''Rockefeller Trust Company'' (Manages hundreds of family trusts);
★ ''Rockefeller Insurance Company'' (Manages liability insurance for family members);
★ ''Acadia Risk Management'' (Insurance Broker: Contracts out policies for the family's vast art collections, real estate and private planes.)
[16]
Family residences
Over the generations the family members have resided in some notable historic homes. A total of 81 Rockefeller homes are on the National Register of Historic Places.
[17] Not including all mansions owned by the five brothers, some of the more prominent of these are:
★
Kykuit - The landmark six-story mansion on the vast Westchester County family estate, home to four generations of the family;
★ ''Bassett Hall'' - The house at Colonial Williamsburg bought by Junior in 1927 and renovated by 1936, it was favorite residence of both Junior and Abby and is now a house museum at the family-restored Colonial Revival town;
★ ''The Eyrie'' - A sprawling 100-room summer holiday mansion on Mount Desert Island in Maine, subsequently demolished by family members in the 1950s;
★ ''Forest Hill'' - The family's country estate and summer home in Cleveland for four decades. Built and occupied by Senior, it burned down in 1917;
★ ''Golf House'' at Lakewood, New Jersey - The former three-story clubhouse for the elite Ocean County Hunt and Country Club, which Senior bought in 1902 to play golf on its golf course;
★ ''The Casements'' - A three-story house at Ormond Beach in Florida, where Senior spent his last winters, from 1919 until his death;
★ 10 West Fifty-fourth Street - A nine-story mansion, the former residence of Junior before he shifted to 740 Park Ave, and the largest residence in New York City at the time, it was the home for the five young brothers. The mansion was later given by Junior to the Museum of Modern Art;
★ One Beekman Place - The residence of Laurance in New York City;
★ 740 Park Avenue - Junior and Abby's famed 40-room triplex apartment in the luxury apartment building, which was later sold for a record price;
★ ''The JY Ranch'' - The landmark ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the holiday resort home built by Junior and later owned by Laurance, it was used by all members of the family and had many prominent visitors, including presidents, until Laurance donated it to the federal government in 2001.
Legacy
A trademark of the dynasty over its 140-plus years has been the remarkable unity it has maintained, despite major divisions that developed in the late 1970s, and unlike other wealthy families such as the
DuPonts and the
Mellons. A primary reason has been the lifelong efforts of "Junior" to not only cleanse the name from the opprobrium stemming from the ruthless practices of
Standard Oil, but his tireless efforts to forge family unity even as he allowed his five sons to operate independently. This was partly achieved by regular brothers and family meetings, but it was also because of the high value placed on family unity by first Nelson and John 3rd, and later especially with David.
[18]
As for achievements, in 1972, on the 100
th anniversary of the founding of
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy, the
Carnegie Corporation, which has had a long association with the family and its institutions, released a public statement on the influence of the family on not just philanthropy but encompassing a much wider field. Summing up a publicly poorly grasped but predominant view amongst the international philanthropic world, one sentence of this statement read: ''"The contributions of the Rockefeller family are staggering in their extraordinary range and in the scope of their contribution to humankind."''
[19]
As far as wealth is concerned, John D. Rockefeller denied ever being worth $1,000,000,000. However, on September 29, 1916 (notably years after the break-up of his
Standard Oil empire by the
Supreme Court in 1911), he officially passed that mark and became the richest man who has ever lived, surpassing by far the fortune of the second wealthiest,
Andrew Carnegie.
He gave away more than half that amount over his lifetime, US$540 million (in dollar terms of that time), and became the greatest lay benefactor of medicine in history.
[20] His son, "Junior" also gave away over $537 million over his lifetime, bringing the total philanthropy of just two generations of the family to over $1 billion from 1860 to 1960.
[21]Added to this, the ''
New York Times'' declared in a report in November, 2006 that
David Rockefeller's total charitable benefactions amount to about $900 million over his lifetime.
[22]
The combined personal and social connections of the various family members are vast, both in America and throughout the world, including the most powerful politicians, royalty, public figures, and chief businessmen. Notable figures through
Standard Oil alone have included
Henry Flagler and
Henry H. Rogers. Contemporary figures include,
Henry Kissinger,
Nelson Mandela,
Richard Parsons (Chairman and CEO of
Time Warner),
C. Fred Bergsten,
Peter G. Peterson (Senior Chairman of the
Blackstone Group), and
Paul Volcker.
The Rockefeller name is imprinted on numerous places throughout the United States, most notably in
New York City:
★ The
Rockefeller Center - A landmark 19-building 22-acre complex in the center of
Manhattan established by Junior: Older section constructed from 1930-1939; Newer section constructed during the 1960s-1970s;
★ The
Rockefeller University - Renamed in 1965, this is the distinguished Nobel prize-winning graduate/postgraduate medical school (formerly the ''Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research'', established by Senior in 1901);
★ The
Rockefeller Foundation - Founded in 1913, this is the famous philanthropic organization set up by Senior and Junior;
★ The
Rockefeller Brothers Fund - Founded in 1940 by the third-generation's five sons and one daughter of Junior;
★ The ''Rockefeller Family Fund'' - Founded in 1967 by members of the family's fourth-generation;
★ The
Rockefeller Group - A private family-run real estate development company based in New York that originally owned, constructed and managed Rockefeller Center, it is now wholly owned by
Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd;
★ The ''Rockefeller Research Laboratories Building'' - A major research center into cancer that was established in 1986 and named after Laurance, this is situated at the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;
★ The
Rockefeller Chapel - Completed in 1928, this is the tallest building on the campus of the
University of Chicago, established by Senior in 1889;
★ The ''Rockefeller Hall'' - Established by Senior in 1906, this building houses the
Case Western Reserve University Physics Department;
★ The ''Rockefeller Hall'' - Established by Senior and completed in 1906, this building houses the
Cornell University Physics Department;
[23]
★ The ''Rockefeller Hall'' - Established by Senior in 1887, who granted
Vassar College a $100,000 ($2.34 million in 2006 dollars) allowance to build additional, much needed lecture space. The final cost of the facility was $99,998.75. It now houses multi-purpose classrooms and departmental offices for political science, philosophy and math;
★ The ''Rockefeller Hall'' - Established by Senior and completed in 1886, this is the oldest building on the campus of
Spelman College;
★ The ''Rockefeller College'' - Named after Laurance, this is a
residential college at
Princeton University;
★ The ''Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center'' - Completed in 1969 in memory of Nelson Rockefeller's son, this is a cultural center at the
State University of New York;
★ ''The Michael C. Rockefeller Collection and the Department of Primitive Art'' - Completed in 1982 after being initiated by Nelson, this is a wing of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art;
★ The ''David and Peggy Rockefeller Building'' - A tribute to David's wife, Peggy Rockefeller, this is a new (completed in 2004) six-story building housing the main collection and temporary exhibition galleries of the family's
Museum of Modern Art;
★ The ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden'' - Completed in 1949 by David, this is a major outdoor feature of the Museum of Modern Art;
★ The ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum'' - Opened in 1957 by Junior, this is a leading folk art museum within the complex of Junior's
Colonial Williamsburg;
★ The ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall'' - The freshman residence hall on the campus of
Spelman College;
★ The ''Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Building'' - Completed in 1918, it is among other things a student residence hall at
Spelman College, after the wife of Senior and after whom the College was named;
★ The ''Rockefeller State Park Preserve'' - Part of the 3,400-acre family estate in Westchester County, this 1233-acre preserve was officially handed over to New York State in 1983, although it had previously always been open to the public;
★ The ''Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park'' - Established as a historical museum of conservation by Laurance during the 1990s.
★ The
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway - Established in 1972 through Congressional authorization, connecting Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks;
★ The ''Rockefeller Forest'' - Funded by Junior, this is located within
Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California's largest redwood state park;
★ Either of two US congressional committees {in 1972 -
John D. 3rd and 1975 -
Nelson dubbed the
Rockefeller Commission}.
John D Junior, through his son
Nelson, purchased and then donated the land upon which sits the
UN headquarters, in New York, in 1946. Earlier, in the 1920s, he had also donated a substantial amount towards the restoration and rehabilitation of major buildings in
France after
World War I, such as the
Rheims Cathedral, the
Fontainebleau Palace and the
Palace of Versailles, for which he was later (1936) awarded France's highest decoration, the Grand Croix of the
Legion d'Honneur (subsequently also awarded decades later to his son,
David Rockefeller).
He also funded the notable excavations at
Luxor in Egypt, as well as establishing a Classical Studies School in
Athens. In addition, he provided the funding for the construction of the
Palestine Archaeological Museum in
East Jerusalem - the
Rockefeller Museum - which today houses such notable antiquities as the
Dead Sea Scrolls.
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For all of the above reasons, the family and its far reaching philanthropy, and its oil, real estate, banking, and international institutions is still considered today to be America's greatest family. It is also a benchmark for extreme wealth ("as rich as Rockefeller"), as "Senior" is still regarded as the wealthiest man who has ever lived, worth $200 billion in today's figures, easily surpassing
Bill Gates, in absolute terms.
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Members of the Rockefeller family
Ancestors
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★ Johann Peter Rockefeller (1682, Prussia –1763, RockTown, NJ) (Arrived in America ca.1723)
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★ (Grandson) William Rockefeller, (m.1700s) Christina Rockefeller (Distant relative)
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★ Margaret Rockefeller (1750–1797) (m.late 1700s) George Trumbo (1750–1830)
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★ Godfrey Rockefeller (1745–1818)
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★ Godfrey Lewis Rockefeller (1784–1857) (m.1806) Lucy Avery (Had ten children in all)
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William Avery Rockefeller (1810–1906) (m.1837) ''Eliza Davison'' (1813–1889)
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★ Lucy Rockefeller (1838–1878) (m.1856) Pierson D. Briggs
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John Davison Rockefeller' (1839–1937) (m.1864)
Laura Celestia Spelman (1839–1915)
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William Rockefeller (1841–1922) (m.1864) Almira Geraldine Goodsell
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★ Mary Ann Rockefeller (1843–1925) (m.1872) William Cullen Rudd
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Franklin Rockefeller (1845–1917) (m.1870) Helen Elizabeth Scofield
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★ Francis Rockefeller (1845–1847)
===Descendants of
John Davison Rockefeller===
To the sixth-generation, with 21 still living in the fourth (''the Cousins''). The total number of blood relative descendants as of 2006 is about 150.
★
Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller Strong (1866–1906) (m.1889) Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940)
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Margaret Strong (1897–1985) (m.1st.1927) George de Cuevas (1885–1961); (m.2nd.1977) Raimundo de Larrain
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Alice Rockefeller (1869–1870)
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Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1871–1962) (m.1901) Ezra Parmelee Prentice (1863–1955)
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John Rockefeller Prentice (1902–1972) (m.1941) Abra Cantrill (1912–1972)
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Abra Prentice Wilkin (born 1942)
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Mary Adeline Prentice Gilbert (1907–1981) (m.1937) Benjamin Davis Gilbert (1907–)
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★ Spelman Prentice (1911) (m.3rd.1972) Mimi Walters
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★ Pamela Prentice (1938)(m.1st. 1960) Frans H. ten Bos
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★ Helena ten Bos (1962)(m. 1987) Count Frederic de Belloy de Saint-Lienard
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★ Joanna ten Bos (1964)(m. 1989) Christopher Booth
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★ Peter Spelman Prentice (1940)
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★ Alexandra Sartell Prentice (1962)
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★ Peter Parmalee Bens (1987)
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★ Erik Carl Bens (1996)
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★ Sarah Prentice Bens (1997)
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★ Michael Andrew Prentice (1964)
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★ Alta Rockefeller Prentice (1942)
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★ Michael Sartell Prentice (1944)
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Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872–1937) (m.1895)
Harold Fowler McCormick
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★ John Rockefeller McCormick (1897–1901)
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★ Editha McCormick (1903–1904)
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★ Harold Fowler McCormick, Jr. (1898–1973) (m.1931) Anne "Fifi" Potter Stillman (1879–1969)
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★ Muriel McCormick (1902–1959) (m.1931) Elisha Dyer Hubbard (1906–)
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★ Mathilde McCormick (1905–1947) (m.1923) Max Oser (1877–1942)
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★ Anita Oser Pauling
★ '
John Davison Rockefeller, Jr.' (1874–1960) (m.1901)
Abigail "Abby" Greene Aldrich
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Abby Rockefeller Mauzé (1903–1976)
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★ Abby Rockefeller Milton O'Neill (born 1928)
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★ George Dorr O'Neill Jr. (1950)
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★ Abby O'Neill (1953)
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★ David Milton O'Neill (1955)
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★ Catharine Mauze O'Neill (1958)
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★ Wendy Harrison O'Neill (1962)
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★ Peter Meriwether O'Neill (1962)
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★ Marilyn Ellen Milton Simpson (1931–1980)
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★ Laura Knickerbacker Simpson (1954)
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★ Abby Rockefeller Simpson (1958)
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★ Sandra Ferry Rockefeller (1935)
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John D. Rockefeller III' (1906–1978) (m.1932)
Blanchette Ferry Hooker
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John Davison ("Jay") Rockefeller IV (1937)
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★ John Davison ("Jamie") Rockefeller V (1969)
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★ Laura Chandler Rockefeller (2000)
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★ Sophia Percy Rockefeller (?)
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★ Valerie Blanchette Rockefeller Wayne (1971)
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★ Charles Percy Rockefeller (1973)
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Justin Aldrich Rockefeller (1979)
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★ Sandra Rockefeller Ferry (1943)
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★ John Christian Rockefeller Ferry (1984)
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★ Jamie Aldrich Rockefeller Ferry (1990)
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Hope Aldrich Rockefeller (1946)
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★ David Hooker Spencer (1961)
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★ Benjamin Murray Spencer (1964)
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★ Theodore Spencer (1966)
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Alida Rockefeller Messinger (1949)
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★ Eric John Dayton (1980)
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★ Andrew Rockefeller Dayton (1983)
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★ Eliza Davison Messinger (1990)
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller' (1908–1979) (m.1st.1930)
Mary Todhunter Clark (m.2nd.1963)
Margaretta Fitler Murphy
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Rodman Rockefeller (1932–2000)
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Meile Louise Rockefeller (1955)
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★ Peter Clark Rockefeller (1957)
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★ Stuart Alexander Rockefeller (1960)
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★ Michael Sorum Rockefeller (1964)
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★ Ann Clark Rockefeller Roberts (1934)
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★ Clare Marie Pierson (1956)
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★ Joseph Anthony Pierson (1957)
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★ Mary Louise Pierson (1959)
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★ Rachel Ann Pierson (1960)
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Steven Clark Rockefeller (1936)
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Steven Clark Rockefeller, Jr. (1960)
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★ Steven C. Rockefeller III (?)
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★ Christian Rockefeller (?)
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★
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★ Kayla Rockefeller (?)
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★ Ingrid Rasmussen Rockefeller (1963)
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★ Jennifer Rasmussen Rockefeller (1964)
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★ Laura Selene Rockefeller (1981)
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Michael Rockefeller (1938–1961)
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★ Mary Clark Rockefeller (1938)
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★ Geoffrey Strawbridge (1963)
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★ Michael Strawbridge (1965)
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★ Sabrina Strawbridge (1968)
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★ Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. (1964)
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Mark Fitler Rockefeller (1967)
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Laurance Spelman Rockefeller' (1910–2004) (m.1934) Mary French
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Laura Spelman Rockefeller Chasin (1936)
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★ Peter Rockefeller Case (1961)
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★ Matthew Owen Case (1964)
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★ Jessica Case (1967)
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Marion French Rockefeller (1938)
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★ Rachel French Weber (1967)
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★ Elizabeth Parmly Weber (1970)
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★ Dr. Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky (1941)
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★ Jacob Peter Waletzky (1971-2001)
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★ Naomi French Waletzky (1976)
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★ Laurance Rockefeller, Jr. (1944) (m. 1982) Wendy Gordon
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★ Wyatt Rockefeller (1985)
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★ Ryan Laurance Rockefeller (1988)
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Winthrop Rockefeller' (1912–1973) (m.1st.1948) Barbara "Bobo" Sears (m.2nd.1956) Jeannette Edris
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Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948–2006)
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★ Andrea Davidson Rockefeller (1972)
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★ Katherine Cluett Rockefeller (1974)
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★ Winthrop Paul Rockefeller Jr. (1976)
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★ William Rockefeller (1987)
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★ Colin Rockefeller (1990)
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★ John Rockefeller (1993)
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★ Louis Rockefeller (1996)
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★ Grace Rockefeller
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★ '
David Rockefeller' (1915) (m.1940) Margaret McGrath
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David Rockefeller, Jr. (1941)
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★ Ariana Newell Rockefeller (1982)
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★ Camilla Rockefeller (1985)
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★ Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1943)
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★ Christopher Rockefeller Lindstrom (1980)
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Neva Rockefeller Goodwin (1944)
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★ David Walter Kaiser (1969)
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★ Miranda Margaret Kaiser(1971)
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Peggy Dulany (1947)
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★ Michael Dulany Quattrone (1977)
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★ Richard Gilder Rockefeller (1949)
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★ Clayton Anderson Rockefeller (1978)
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★ Rebecca Anderson Rockefeller (1980)
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Eileen Rockefeller Growald (1952)
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★ Adam Rockefeller Growald (1985)
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★ Daniel Growald (1987)
===Descendants of
William Rockefeller===
An article in the ''New York Times'' in 1937 stated that William Rockefeller had, at that time, exactly 28 great-grandchildren.
★ Lewis Edward Rockefeller (1865–1866)
★ Emma Rockefeller McAlpin (1868–1934)
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William Goodsell Rockefeller (1870–1922)
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William Avery Rockefeller (1896–1973)
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★ Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899–1983)
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★ Godfrey Anderson Rockefeller
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James Stillman Rockefeller (1902–2004)
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★ James Stillman Rockefeller, Jr. (born 1926)
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★ Liv Merlin Rockefeller Hessler (1957)
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★ Ola Stillman Rockefeller (1959)
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★ Nancy Sherlock Carnegie Rockefeller (1927)
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★ Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller (1929)
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★ Georgia Stillman Rockefeller (1933) (Married J Harden Rose)
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★ James Stillman Rose (1958)
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★ Andrew Carnegie Rose (1960)
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★ Georgia Rockefeller Rose (1961)
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John Sterling Rockefeller (1904–1988)
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★ Almira Geraldine Rockefeller (1907) (The wife of MacRoy Jackson, Samuel Weston Scott, and later Hardie Scott.)
★ John Davison Rockefeller (1872–1877)
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Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934)
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Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln (1902–1980) m.
Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr.
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Avery Rockefeller (1903–1986)
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Winifred Rockefeller Emeny (1904–1951)
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Faith Rockefeller Model (1909–1960)
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Robert Model (1942)
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★ Gladys Rockefeller Underhill (1910)
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Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882–1973)
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Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Jr. (1908–1930)
Spouses
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Laura Celestia Spelman "Cettie" (1839–1915) - John D. Rockefeller.
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Abby Greene Aldrich (1874–1948) - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
★ Martha Baird Allen (1895–1971) - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Mary Todhunter Clark "Tod" (1907–1999) -
Nelson Rockefeller.
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Margaretta Fitler Murphy "Happy" (born 1926) - Nelson Rockefeller.
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★ Anne Marie Rasmussen - Steven C. Rockefeller.
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Blanchette Ferry Hooker (1909–1992) - John D. Rockefeller 3rd.
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★ Sharon Percy - John D. "Jay" Rockefeller, IV.
★ Mary French (1910–1997) - Laurance Rockefeller.
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★ Wendy Gordon - Laurance "Larry" Rockefeller.
★ Barbara "Bobo" Sears (1916–) - Winthrop Rockefeller.
★ Jeannette Edris (1918–1997) - Winthrop Rockefeller.
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★ Lisenne Dudderar - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller.
★ Margaret "Peggy" McGrath (1915–1996) - David Rockefeller.
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★ Diana Newell Rowan - David Rockefeller, Jr.
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★ Nancy Anderson - Richard Gilder Rockefeller.
★ Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (1866–1906).
★ Alta Rockefeller (1871–1962).
★ Edith Rockefeller (1872–1932).
★ Elsie Stillman Rockefeller (1872–1935).
★ Isabel Stillman Rockefeller (1876–1935).
Select bibliography
★ Abels, Jules. ''The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune''. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965.
★ Aldrich, Nelson W. Jr. ''Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
★ Allen, Gary. ''The Rockefeller File''. Seal Beach, California: 1976 Press, 1976.
★ Boorstin, Daniel J. ''The Americans: The Democratic Experience''. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.
★ Brown, E. Richard. ''Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
★ Caro, Robert A. ''The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York''. New York: Vintage, 1975.
★ Chernow, Ron. ''Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr''. London: Warner Books, 1998.
★ Collier, Peter, and David Horowitz. ''The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty''. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976.
★ Elmer, Isabel Lincoln. ''Cinderella Rockefeller: A Life of Wealth Beyond All Knowing''. New York: Freundlich Books, 1987.
★ Ernst, Joseph W., editor. ''"Dear Father"/"Dear Son:" Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'' New York: Fordham University Press, with the Rockefeller Archive Center, 1994.
★ Flynn, John T. ''God's Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times''. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.
★ Fosdick, Raymond B. ''John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: A Portrait''. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
★ Fosdick, Raymond B. ''The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation''. New York: Transaction Publishers, Reprint, 1989.
★ Gates, Frederick Taylor. ''Chapters in My Life''. New York: The Free Press, 1977.
★ Gitelman, Howard M. ''Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
★ Gonzales, Donald J., Chronicled by. ''The Rockefellers at Williamsburg: Backstage with the Founders, Restorers and World-Renowned Guests''. McLean, Virginia: EPM Publications, Inc., 1991.
★ Hanson, Elizabeth. ''The Rockefeller University Achievements: A Century of Science for the Benefit of Humankind, 1901-2001''. New York: The Rockefeller University Press, 2000.
★ Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. ''The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
★ Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. ''The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991.
★ Hawke, David Freeman. ''John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers''. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
★ Hidy, Ralph W. and Muriel E. Hidy. ''Pioneering in Big Business: History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1882-1911''. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955.
★ Jonas, Gerald. ''The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science''. New York: W.W.Norton and Co., 1989.
★ Josephson, Emanuel M. ''The Federal Reserve Conspiracy and the Rockefellers: Their Gold Corner''. New York: Chedney Press, 1968.
★ Josephson, Matthew. ''The Robber Barons''. London: Harcourt, 1962.
★ Kert, Bernice. ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family''. New York: Random House, 2003.
★ Klein, Henry H. ''Dynastic America and Those Who Own It''. New York: Kessinger Publishing, [1921] Reprint, 2003.
★ Kutz, Myer. ''Rockefeller Power: America's Chosen Family''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
★ Lundberg, Ferdinand. ''America's Sixty Families''. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937.
★ Lundberg, Ferdinand. ''The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the Power of Money Today''. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968.
★ Lundberg, Ferdinand. ''The Rockefeller Syndrome''. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1975.
★ Manchester, William R. ''A Rockefeller Family Portrait: From John D. to Nelson''. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1959.
★ Moscow, Alvin. ''The Rockefeller Inheritance''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1977.
★
Nevins, Allan. ''John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise''. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
★ Nevins, Allan. ''Study In Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist''. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
★ Okrent, Daniel. ''Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center''. New York: Viking Press, 2003.
★ Reich, Cary. ''The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958''. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
★ Roberts, Ann Rockefeller. ''The Rockefeller Family Home: Kykuit''. New York: Abbeville Publishing Group, 1998.
★ Rockefeller, David. ''Memoirs''. New York: Random House, 2002.
★ Rockefeller, Henry Oscar, ed. ''Rockefeller Genealogy''. 4 vols. 1910 - ca.1950.
★ Rockefeller, John D. ''Random Reminiscences of Men and Events''. New York: Doubleday, 1908; London: W. Heinemann. 1909; Sleepy Hollow Press and Rockefeller Archive Center, (Reprint) 1984.
★ Roussel, Christine. ''The Art of Rockefeller Center''. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2006.
★ Scheiffarth, Engelbert. ''Der New Yorker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und die Rockenfeller im Neuwieder Raum'' Genealogisches Jahrbuch, Vol 9, 1969, p16-41.
★ Sealander, Judith. ''Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and the Reshaping of American Social Policy, from the Progressive Era to the New Deal''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
★ Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard. ''Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics Between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century''. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 2001.
★ Stasz, Clarice. ''The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service''. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
★ Tarbell, Ida M. ''The History of the Standard Oil Company''. New York: Phillips & Company, 1904.
★ Winks, Robin W. ''Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation'', Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.
★
Yergin, Daniel. ''. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
★ Young, Edgar B. ''Lincoln Center: The Building of an Institution''. New York: New York University Press, 1980.
See also
Notes
1. World's largest private fortune - see Ron Chernow, ''Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.'', London: Warner Books, 1998. (p.370)
2. Neuwied.de "Rockenfeld"
3. Aol.com, Marwomack "Rockefel"
4. Details of ancestors - see Chernow, ''Titan'', op.cit. (pp.3-10)
5. Rockefeller.edu "Philanthropy"
6. Rockefeller.edu "Family, OMR"
7. The Morningside Heights housing project - see David Rockefeller, ''Memoirs'', New York: Random House, 2002. (pp.385-87).
8. UChicago.edu, "News, Nobel"
9. Funded colleges and Ivy League universities - see Robert Shaplen, ''Toward the Well-Being of Mankind: Fifty Years of the Rockefeller Foundation'', New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. (passim)
10. Google Books: Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics
11. New York Times
12. Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) papers on Nelson not released - see Cary Reich, ''The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958'', New York: Doubleday, 1996.(pp.774-5) (Note: Reich died before completing the second volume of his life.)
13. http://archive.rockefeller.edu/
14. Rockefeller.Edu "Family, JDR"
15. Women in the family with no control over the family fortune -- see Bernice Kert, ''Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family''. New York: Random House, 1993. (p.100)
16. Managing the family wealth, 1992 New York Times article ''Rockefeller Family Tries to Keep A Vast Fortune From Dissipating'' (see External Links). {Note: The names and nature of these departments may have changed since 1992.)
17. Amazon Books: Forest Hill
18. Family unity maintained over the decades - see John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, ''The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family'', New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. (pp.370-71, passim); David's unifying influence - see ''Memoirs'' (pp.346-7)
19. Carnegie.Org "Rockefellers"
20. Greatest benefactor of medicine in history - see Ron Chernow, ''Titan:'' op.cit. (p.570)
21. Rockefeller.Edu "JDR Jr"
22. New York Times, Nov 21, 2006
23. Cornell.Edu "Infobase" Retrieved 2007-01-30.
24. Restorations and constructions in France, Egypt, Greece and Jerusalem - see ''Memoirs'', (pp.44-48).
25. Askmen.Com "Top 10"
References
★ Rose, Kenneth W., ''Select Rockefeller Philanthropies'', Booklet (pdf, 23 pages) of the Rockefeller Archive Center, 2004.
★
Origin of ''Rockenfeld'', in German
★
Descendants of ''Goddard Rockenfeller''
★ Listing of University of Chicago Nobel Laureates, News Office, University of Chicago website, undated.
★ Depalma, Anthony, ''They Saved Land Like Rockefellers'', The New York Times Archive, November 15, 2005.
★ Carnegie Corporation of New York, Celebrating 100 years of Andrew Carnegie's Philanthropy - awarding the inaugural ''Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy'' to David and Laurance Rockefeller, 2001.
★ The Rockefeller Archive Center, John D. Rockefeller, Junior, 1874-1960, Overview of his life and philanthropy, 1997.
★ Strom, Stephanie, ''Manhattan: A Rockefeller Plans a Huge Bequest'', The New York Times Archive, November 21, 2006.
★ O'Connell, Dennis, ''Top 10 Richest Men Of All Time'', AskMen.com, undated.
External links
General
★
''American Experience: The Rockefellers'' A full transcript of the
PBS documentary on the family, with contributions from economist and ''
New York Times'' columnist
Paul Krugman and business author
Ron Chernow.
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Official Website Details the regular conferences held by the Fund at the family estate of Pocantico.
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The Americas Society/Council of the Americas Website.
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Select Rockefeller Philanthropies A 2004 ''Rockefeller Archive Center'' (RAC) pdf study of 72 institutions created or endowed by the family.
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Carnegie Corporation of New York: Carnegie Centennial Outlines their view of the overall contributions of the Rockefeller family to humankind.
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Top ten richest men John D Rockefeller rated the richest man, with Carnegie 2nd and Gates 5th, in absolute terms.
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University of Chicago Nobel Laureates.
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Historic Hudson Valley: Brief biographical sketches of Senior, Junior and Nelson
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Rockefeller Family Tree From the Rockefeller Archive Center Website.
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The Rockefeller Archive Center Home Page Contains details on family research papers available to scholars.
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Rockefeller Archive Center: Rockefeller Family Archives, Office of the Messrs. Rockefeller, General Files, 1858-(1879-1961) Voluminous files, to 1961 only, detailing business, civic, world affairs and political involvement and interests of the family members, amongst many other categories.
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Rockefeller Archive Center: Family bibliography An extensive (though limited) list of autobiographies, biographies and general works on the family and its companies and institutions.
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''An Entrepreneurial Spirit: Three Centuries of Rockefeller Family Philanthropy'' This 2005 (pdf) monograph contains a history and philosophy of Rockefeller philanthropy, produced by the family-created ''Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors'' (RPA) (previously known as The Philanthropic Collaborative), set up by fourth-generation family members in New York in 2002.
Articles
First-hand testimonial of Rockefeller's claims to get every person micro-chipped with RFID.
★ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1263677258215075609&q=aaron+russo&total=422&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
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''Rockefeller Family Tries to Keep A Vast Fortune From Dissipating'' A 1992
New York Times (TimesSelect) article analysing the wealth and investments of the family run out of Room 5600.
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''They Saved Land Like Rockefellers: The Rockefeller family and conservation'' A November, 2005, NYT (TimesSelect) article detailing the family's conservation projects over 5 generations.
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''Turning 90, a Rockefeller Gives the Presents; Millions to University and the Museum of Modern Art'' June, 2005 NYT (TimesSelect) article stating that David Rockefeller's total benefactions over his lifetime amount to more than half a billion dollars.
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''The Cousins'' A 1984 NYT (TimesSelect) profile of prominent members of the fourth-generation, especially
David Rockefeller, Jr..
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