Within his lifetime, Rockefeller helped launch the field of biomedical research, funding scientific investigations that resulted in vaccines for things like meningitis and yellow fever. He championed the cause of public sanitation, creating schools of public health at Johns Hopkins and Harvard, and helped lead major international public-health efforts against hookworm, malaria, yellow fever, and other maladies.
He vigorously promoted the cause of education nationwide, without distinction of sex, race, or creed. Born in upstate New York in , Rockefeller was the son of a strait-laced, deeply devout Baptist mother and a boisterous, fun-loving father who called himself a travelling salesman but was really a flimflam man.
The young Rockefeller, serious and somewhat humorless by nature, was much more influenced by his mother. A lifelong adherent of the northern Baptist church, he neither drank nor smoked. As a boy, his family moved frequently. In they settled in Strongsville, Ohio, a suburb of rapidly expanding Cleveland. Rockefeller attended a local high school and took a week course in bookkeeping. At age 16 he got his first job, as a bookkeeper at a brokerage of fresh produce.
He was soon tithing to the Baptist church. That year Rockefeller and a partner opened a brokerage of their own, Rockefeller and Clark, that traded not only produce but petroleum products as well. Cleveland, with its proximity to the Pennsylvania oil fields and its excellent transportation network, quickly became the center of petroleum refining.
In , Rockefeller and partners opened their own refinery. In Rockefeller bought out his partners and established a new firm with the chemist Samuel Andrews. In , Flagler convinced Rockefeller to transform the partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews, and Flagler into a corporation named Standard Oil. Regardless of what others said Rockefeller did his job and also contributed to society in a positive way. I want a nation of workers. Known as a cut throat businessman and the richest man of America, Rockefeller was head of several oil refiners.
He starred at the Democratic convention with his Cross of Gold speech that favored free silver, but was defeated in his bid to become U. Bryan also lost his subsequent bids for the presidency in and IPL John D. John D. First of all, John D. Rockefeller, born July 8,, was the richest man in the world when he was alive. In fact he is still considered the richest man in the world even after having died.
After his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio when he was 14 he started working doing small jobs. His first real full time job started out when he was 16 years old. While Rockefeller used a lot more of his natural business intuition, Carnegie put in much more hard work. He started from the bottom and rose to power. A factor that greatly helped Andrew Carnegie was his family 's belief in books, reading and learning. Carnegie wanted to learn and become successful.
Within a year he got a job as a telegraph messenger. He eventually worked his way up higher and higher until he got a job at the Pennsylvania Railroad. Working here taught him much. After the takeover, the partner committed suicide and he was ruined, leaving a deep impression on a young Ida Tarbell. In , while working on her expose, she watched him in church.
By this point in his life, Rockefeller was suffering from alopecia and was entirely hairless, including eyebrows. But there was another side to him. Kat Eschner is a freelance science and culture journalist based in Toronto. Rockefeller was not only head of this huge company, he also owned iron mines, forests, and shares in manufacturing and transportation companies. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in the world, and to those who read the muckraking articles, he seemed like a monster.
But he gave away most of his fortune in ways carefully designed to do the most good. As a child he learned to share his income with the church and charity, and he continued to do this all his life.
With his son, John D.
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