Rockefeller University

Rockefeller was the founder of Standard Oil Company, and become one heck of a rich man. In 1863 Rockefeller invested in Cleveland, Ohio, Refinery, for then-fledgling oil. He controlled most of the refineries in the US. They thought he was doing unethical practices, to gain monopoly industries. They had found, the Standard Oil Company in violation, of antitrust laws, and ordered it to be dissolve. Rockefeller was born to a traveling salesman. He always did little side jobs, from selling…

Who: This article is about Carl Scheele a 1700’s chemist. Scheele was born into a very wealthy family and his father was a very smart man. Scheele learned a lot from his father and his friends that would come to teach young Carl. Scheele became a pharmacist which lead him into working with different chemicals. He founded many different acids as well as barium and molybdenum. Scheele also created a green coloring mixture in which is now famous as Scheele’s Green. What: This article is trying to…

John Davison Rockefeller was born on July 8th, 1839 into a “modest” household (Benson, Stock, Brennan 1332). At that time, the United States of America was near the brink of the Civil War and end of African-American enslavement. While that was happening , something else was brewing overseas in Europe. The Industrial revolution was just starting and the whole world would feel the effects of the innovations that ensued. Rockefellers presence would not be known for a while. He moved from city to…

John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8. 1839 in Richford, New York. His father William Avery Rockefeller, was a “pitch man”-- a “doctor” who claimed he could cure cancer and charged up to $25 per “treatment.” His dad was gone from month to month traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was very religious and disciplined. She raised John to work, save and give to charities.…

Cornelius Vanderbilt was a disrespectful, ugly, genius shipping and railroad tycoon whose parents were farmers and he grew up with no education. “In New York, 1871 Vanderbilt was in the Grand Central Depot, the terminal for New York Central Railroad was constructed with features like elevated platforms , a glass balloon roof spanning all the tracks and boarding areas only accessible to passengers”. He made railroad much better than it was by making it cheaper and efficient. He mastered…

John D. Rockefeller was one of the richest men in the world in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. He is known for his very successful oil industry which we know as Standard Oil today. He was a very influential person back in his time and he still is today. Now the question is, was John Rockefeller a robber baron or a captain of industry? John Rockefeller was born on July 8th, 1839 in Richford, New York. His mother was a religious and disciplined woman and his father was a ¨pitchman¨. As a…

was poised to alter the country with a whole new infrastructure, railroads. In the episode the audience has also been introduced to a man named John D. Rockefeller who built his first oil refinery near Cleveland, and by 1882 he had a near monopoly of the oil businesses in the U.S. but his practices led to the passing of antitrust laws.…

The Civil War has ended, Abraham Lincoln has been assassinated, and the future of the United States doesn’t look great. “For the first time in American History, the man most capable of leading America is not a politician, but a self-made man.” Cornelius Vanderbilt was a shipping magnate who began his career running ferries from New York with cargo and people. He became successful and was nicknamed “The Commodore.” But, Vanderbilt becomes very interested in the railroad industry, causing him to…

it once everyone realized how valuable oil really was. There was so much that I really took in and really enjoyed learning about. Ida Tarbell and her journalism journey to expose a very powerful man who is known as the oil king himself, John D. Rockefeller. I also really liked learning about how Ida grew up in an oil town, she talks about the disadvantages and advantages she…

Question 8: Were rich industrialists captains of industry or robber barons? Position: Rich industrialists were captains of industry 1. The rich industrialists of the 19th century pioneered the business practices of the time, and set the foundations for the success of US corporations for decades to come. One such business practice was cost accounting. In the 1880s, industrialist Andrew Carnegie was “the first in the railroad industry to apply cost accounting, or breaking out the product cost…