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The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
Michael Clark Rockefeller (May 18, 1938; disappeared November 19, 1961) was a member of the Rockefeller family. He was a son of New York Governor and later U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller , a grandson of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. , and a great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr.
John D. Rockefeller purchased land in the area as early as 1893, after his brother William had moved into a 204-room mansion, Rockwood Hall, nearby. [5] When Rockefeller and his son chose Pocantico Hills as their residence, he quietly purchased multiple homes and properties in the area, and used the houses for himself and his family and staff, or to rent out.
See photos of the Rockefeller family: Gary Allen, an American conservative journalist, discusses the family's abuse of great wealth and power, diving deep into the lives of the Rockefeller ...
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In the 1970s, Rockefeller turned her attention to environmentalism, focusing on human waste. Rockefeller was the first American to install a composting system in her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, even though the technology had been around since the 1930s. [9] In 1973, she founded the Clivus Multrum company to manufacture composting toilets.
Icelandic horses weigh between 330 and 380 kilograms (730 and 840 lb) [2] and stand an average of 13 and 14 hands (52 and 56 inches, 132 and 142 cm) high, although the shortest measured Icelandic horse was 113cm (11.1hh), and the tallest measured 157cm (15.3hh).