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David Rockefeller, 1954. Library of Congress. Though the idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946, just after World War II, for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an ...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was educated in his home until the age of 10 and adhered to the Rockefeller family’s strict values of discipline and duty. Junior received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1897 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He married Abby Greene Aldrich on October 9, 1901. The couple had six children: one daughter, Abby, and five sons, John D. III, Nelson ...
brother John D. Rockefeller III. (Show more) Nelson Rockefeller (born July 8, 1908, Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S.—died January 26, 1979, New York City) was the 41st vice president of the United States (1974–77) in the Republican administration of Pres. Gerald Ford, four-term governor of New York (1959–73), leader of the liberal wing of the ...
Abigail Aldrich Rockefeller Mauzé (November 9, 1903 – May 27, 1976) was an American philanthropist. She was the daughter of American philanthropists John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller .
Photo courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center. In 1956, the Fund gave $1 million to Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc., for the development of a large tract on the Island of St. John in the American Virgin Islands for national park purposes. RBF trustee Laurance Rockefeller already owned the Caneel Bay Estate on the island, where he had built an ...
In 1940, Laurance's father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., established the Jackson Hole Preserve to promote conservation and to protect family land holdings in the Tetons of Wyoming. Laurance became the first president of the Jackson Hole Preserve. After he returned from World War II, he began to build upon his father's vision of expanding the national park system by partnering conservation of ...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., built Rockefeller Center in New York, New York, and was instrumental in the decision to locate the United Nations (UN) in that city. John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., was born on January 29, 1874, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island in 1897 and then joined his father at Standard Oil.
