John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller dies in Ormond Beach, Florida at age 97.

The Rockefeller Foundation is formally established.

Rockefeller retires from Standard Oil, focusing on philanthropy.

Founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to eradicate hookworm.

Established the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Gained control of the National Transit Company.

Rockefeller invested heavily in the Bessemer steel process.

Standard Oil controls approximately 90% of US oil refining.

Established the Standard Oil Trust.

Married Laura Celestia Spelman.

Partnership with Andrews and Clark in oil refining.

Rockefeller hired a substitute to fight in the Civil War.

Forms Rockefeller & Andrews, an oil refinery.

Birth of his first child, Elizabeth Rockefeller.

Forms a commission merchant partnership with Maurice B. Clark.

John Davison Rockefeller is born in Richford, New York.