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Glenville, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Maurice B. Clark (1827–1901) was a partner in a produce business with John D. Rockefeller Sr., along with Clark's two brothers, James and Richard. [1] Clark was from Malmesbury, England and moved to the United States in 1847. [2] He studied with Rockefeller at Folsom's Commercial College in Ohio.
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 ...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time [1][2][3][4] and one of the richest people in modern history. [5][6][3] Rockefeller was born into a large family in Upstate New York who moved several times before eventually ...
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Big Oil was John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. By 1904, the monopoly controlled 91% of the U.S. oil market and 85% of final sales. But it was in ...
San Quentin State Prison. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (born 21 February 1961) is a German convicted murderer and impostor. Born in West Germany, he is currently serving a prison sentence in the U.S. state of California. After moving to the U.S. in his late teens, Gerhartsreiter lived under a succession of aliases while variously claiming to ...
Premise. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, also known as "Clark Rockefeller," was a master imposter who successfully posed as various individuals, including a television host and a Pentagon advisor, before claiming to be a member of the famous Rockefeller family. He used his fabricated high society status to win the affections of Sandra Boss, a ...
Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed " The Showplace of the Nation ", it is the headquarters for the Rockettes. Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone ...
John D. Rockefeller c. 1872, shortly after founding Standard Oil. Standard Oil's prehistory began in 1863, as an Ohio partnership formed by industrialist John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V. Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William Rockefeller's wife.