American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960)
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The son who turned the Standard Oil fortune into stone and glass: Rockefeller Center, Colonial Williamsburg, half a billion dollars scattered across causes his father's monopoly made possible. The name carried forward, and so did the stain — Ludlow hung over him for decades.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was born January 29, 1874, the only son of Standard Oil's co-founder, and spent his life reshaping what that inheritance meant. He became one of Manhattan's largest real estate holders by developing Rockefeller Center, the vast Midtown office complex that redrew the city's skyline. He bankrolled the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and gave more than $500 million to educational institutions and other causes. But the Colorado Coalfield War shadowed him: he was widely blamed for orchestrating the Ludlow Massacre and other violence tied to the famil…
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I was born into it [wealth] and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what to do with it.
I took responsibility early and, like my parents, I was serious.
As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.
The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it.
My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?
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