2. Basic History
• Born in Richford, New York on July 8, 1839
• Moved to Cleveland in 1853
• Went into the oil refinery business with his
neighbor Maurice Clark in 1859
• Married Laura Spelman in 1864 and had five
children
• Involved in philanthropy
3. Prior Work Experience
• First job as an assistant bookkeeper
Rockefeller partly owned..
• Andrews, Clark, and Co.
• Rockefeller & Andrews
• Standard Oil Company
• Standard Oil Trust
5. Standard Oil Company
• Oil refinery
• Replaced much of the competition in
Cleveland during the later 1800s
• By end of the 1870s, Standard Oil produced
about 90% of the oil in the US
• Made Rockefeller a millionaire