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A. D. John. A modest start contributed to Rockefeller’s rise to one of the world’s wealthiest men. The 1839 birth of his father brought him into a household of modest means. In less than 20 years, ...

it was a permanent corporate philanthropy on a scale never before seen — a charitable trust to parallel the oil trust that had made it possible. The Rockefeller Foundation has given away about ...

There is no way around the Rockefeller name being associated with money, as it's synonymous with immense wealth and the ...