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John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. MP
Gender: Male
Birth: July 08, 1839
Richford, Tioga, New York, United States
Death: May 23, 1937 (97)
The Casements, Ormond Beach, Florida, United States
Place of Burial: Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States
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Son of William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. and Elizabeth 'Eliza' Rockefeller
Husband of Laura Celestia "Cettie" Rockefeller (Spelman)
Father of Elizabeth "Bessie" Strong; Alice Rockefeller; Alta Prentice; Edith McCormick and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Brother of Lucy Briggs; William Avery Rockefeller, Jr.; Mary Ann Rudd; Frances Rockefeller; Franklin G Rockefeller and 1 other
Half brother of Clorinda Rockefeller and Cornelia Rockefeller
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John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 –May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company and ran it until he retired in the late 1890s. Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, and a silent partner Stephen V. Harkness. Rockefeller kept his stock and as gasoline grew in importance, his wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and first U.S. dollar billionaire, and is often regarded as the richest person in history (adjusted wealth $253 billion).
Standard Oil was convicted in Federal Court of monopolistic practices and broken up in 1911. Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy with foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research. His foundations pioneered the development of medical research, and were instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. He was a devoted Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions throughout his life.
He married Laura Celestia ("Cettie") Spelman in 1864 and outlived her. The Rockefellers had four daughters and one son; John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "Junior" was largely entrusted with the supervision of the foundations.
Early life
Rockefeller was the second of six children born to William Avery Rockefeller (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) and Eliza Davison (September 12, 1813 - March 28, 1889). Genealogists trace his line back to Germany in the 1600s. His father, also referred to as "Big Bill", was a sworn foe of conventional morality who had opted for a vagabond existence. Throughout his life, William Avery Rockefeller expended considerable energy on tricks and schemes to avoid plain hard work. As Will was frequently gone for extended periods, Eliza struggled to maintain a semblance of stability at home. Young Rockefeller's contemporaries described him as articulate, methodical, and discreet.
When he was a boy, his family moved from Cleveland to Moravia and, in 1851, to Owego, where he attended Owego Academy. In 1853, his family bought a house in Strongsville, a town close to Cleveland, Ohio. When Rockefeller was 16 he got his first job as a clerk. At that time he promised when he retired he would give 1/10 of his money to charity.
Standard Oil
By the end of the Civil War, Cleveland was one of the five main refining centers in the U.S. (besides Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, and the region in northwestern Pennsylvania where most of the oil originated). Eight years later, in 1873, Rockefeller formed Standard Oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Cleveland. When it was found that at least part of Standard Oil's cost advantage came from secret rebates from the railroads bringing oil into Cleveland, the competing refiners insisted on getting similar rebates, and the railroads quickly complied. By then, however, Standard Oil had grown to become one of the largest shippers of oil and kerosene in the country.
The railroads were competing fiercely for traffic and, in an attempt to create a cartel to control freight rates, formed the South Improvement Company. Rockefeller agreed to support this cartel if they gave him preferential treatment as a high volume shipper which included not just steep rebates for his product, but also rebates for the shipment of competing products. Part of this scheme was the announcement of sharply increased freight charges. This touched off a firestorm of protest, which eventually led to the discovery of Standard Oil's part of the deal. A major New York refiner, Charles Pratt and Company, headed by Charles Pratt and Henry H. Rogers, led the opposition to this plan, and railroads soon backed off.
Undeterred, Rockefeller continued with his self-reinforcing cycle of buying competing refiners, improving the efficiency of his operations, pressing for discounts on oil shipments, undercutting his competition, and buying them out. In six weeks in 1872, Standard Oil had absorbed 22 of its 26 Cleveland competitors. Eventually, even his former antagonists, Pratt and Rogers saw the futility of continuing to compete against Standard Oil, and in 1874, they made a secret agreement with their old nemesis to be acquired. Pratt and Rogers became Rockefeller's partners. Rogers, in particular, became one of Rockefeller's key men in the formation of the Standard Oil Trust. Pratt's son, Charles Millard Pratt became Secretary of Standard Oil.
For many of his competitors, Rockefeller had merely to show them his books so they could see what they were up against, then make them a decent offer. If they refused his offer, he told them he would run them into bankruptcy, then cheaply buy up their assets at auction.
Monopoly
Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil production in United States. At that time, many legislatures had made it difficult to incorporate in one state and operate in another. As a result, Rockefeller and his partners owned separate companies across dozens of states, making their management of the whole enterprise rather unwieldy. In 1882, Rockefeller's lawyers created an innovative form of partnership to centralize their holdings, giving birth to the Standard Oil Trust. The partnership's size and wealth drew much attention. Despite improving the quality and availability of kerosene products while greatly reducing their cost to the public (the price of kerosene dropped by nearly 80% over the life of the company), Standard Oil's business practices created intense controversy. The firm was attacked by journalists and politicians throughout its existence, in part for its monopolistic practices, giving momentum to the anti-trust movement.
One of the most effective attacks on Rockefeller and his firm was the 1904 publication of The History of the Standard Oil Company, by Ida Tarbell, a leading muckraker. Although her work prompted a huge backlash against the company, Tarbell claims to have been surprised at its magnitude. “I never had an animus against their size and wealth, never objected to their corporate form. I was willing that they should combine and grow as big and wealthy as they could, but only by legitimate means. But they had never played fair, and that ruined their greatness for me.” (Tarbell's father had been driven out of the oil business during the South Improvement Company affair.)
Ohio was especially vigorous in applying its state anti-trust laws, and finally forced a separation of Standard Oil of Ohio from the rest of the company in 1892, leading to the dissolution of the trust. Rockefeller continued to consolidate his oil interests as best as he could until New Jersey, in 1899, changed its incorporation laws to effectively allow a re-creation of the trust in the form of a single holding company. At its peak, Standard Oil had about 90% of the market for kerosene products.
By 1896, Rockefeller shed all of his policy involvement in the affairs of Standard Oil; however he retained his nominal title as president until 1911; he kept his stock.
In 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States held that Standard Oil, which by then still had a 64% market share, originated in illegal monopoly practices and ordered it to be broken up into 34 new companies. These included, among many others, Continental Oil, which became Conoco; Standard of Indiana, which became Amoco; Standard of California, which became Chevron; Standard of New Jersey, which became Esso (and later, Exxon); Standard of New York, which became Mobil; and Standard of Ohio, which became Sohio. Rockefeller, who had rarely sold shares, owned stock in all of them.
Philanthropy
From his very first paycheck, Rockefeller tithed ten percent of his earnings to his church. As his wealth grew, so did his giving, primarily to educational and public health causes, but also for basic science and the arts. He was advised primarily by Frederick T. Gates after 1891, and, after 1897, also by his son. He was also advised by Swami Vivekananda to use his money for the welfare of the world.[8]
Rockefeller believed in the Efficiency Movement, arguing that:
"To help an inefficient, ill-located, unnecessary school is a waste...it is highly probable that enough money has been squandered on unwise educational projects to have built up a national system of higher education adequate to our needs, if the money had been properly directed to that end."
He and his advisors invented the conditional grant that required the recipient to "root the institution in the affections of as many people as possible who, as contributors, become personally concerned, and thereafter may be counted on to give to the institution their watchful interest and cooperation."
In 1884, he provided major funding for a college in Atlanta for black women that became Spelman College (named for Rockefeller's in-laws who were ardent abolitionists before the Civil War). The oldest existing building on Spelman's campus, Rockefeller Hall, is named after him. Rockefeller also gave considerable donations to Denison University and other Baptist colleges.
Rockefeller gave $80 million to the University of Chicago under William Rainey Harper, turning a small Baptist college into a world-class institution by 1900. His General Education Board, founded in 1902, was established to promote education at all levels everywhere in the country. It was especially active in supporting black schools in the South. Its most dramatic impact came by funding the recommendations of the Flexner Report of 1910, which had been funded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; it revolutionized the study of medicine in the United States. Rockefeller also provided financial support to Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley and Vassar.
Despite his personal preference for homeopathy, Rockefeller, on Gates's advice, became one of the first great benefactors of medical science. In 1901, he founded the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. It changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include graduate education. It claims a connection to 23 Nobel laureates. He founded the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1909, an organization that eventually eradicated the hookworm disease that had long plagued the American South. The Rockefeller Foundation was created in 1913 to continue and expand the scope of the work of the Sanitary Commission, which was closed in 1915. He gave nearly $250 million to the foundation, which focused on public health, medical training, and the arts. It endowed Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first of its kind. It built the Peking Union Medical College into a great institution, helped in World War I war relief, and it employed William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada to study industrial relations. Rockefeller's fourth main philanthropy, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation, created in 1918, supported work in the social studies; it was later absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation. However, all told, Rockefeller gave away about $550 million.
Oddly enough, Rockefeller was probably best known in his later life for the practice of giving dimes to children wherever he went. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to men like tire mogul Harvey Firestone and President Hoover. During the Great Depression, Rockefeller switched to giving nickels instead of dimes.
As a youth, Rockefeller allegedly said that his two great ambitions were to make $100,000 and to live 100 years. Rockefeller died of arteriosclerosis on May 23, 1937, two months shy of his 98th birthday, at the Casements, his home in Ormond Beach, Florida. He was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
Rockefeller had a long and controversial career in the industry followed by a long career in philanthropy. His image is an amalgam of all of these experiences and the many ways he was viewed by his contemporaries. These contemporaries include his former competitors, many of whom were driven to ruin, but many others of whom sold out at a profit (or a profitable stake in Standard Oil, as Rockefeller often offered his shares as payment for a business), and quite a few of whom became very wealthy as managers as well as owners in Standard Oil. They also include politicians and writers, some of whom served Rockefeller's interests, and some of whom built their careers by fighting Rockefeller and the "robber barons."
Biographer Allan Nevins, answering Rockefeller's enemies, concluded:
“The rise of the Standard Oil men to great wealth was not from poverty. It was not meteor-like, but accomplished over a quarter of a century by courageous venturing in a field so risky that most large capitalists avoided it, by arduous labors, and by more sagacious and farsighted planning than had been applied to any other American industry. The oil fortunes of 1894 were not larger than steel fortunes, banking fortunes, and railroad fortunes made in similar periods. But it is the assertion that the Standard magnates gained their wealth by appropriating "the property of others" that most challenges our attention. We have abundant evidence that Rockefeller's consistent policy was to offer fair terms to competitors and to buy them out, for cash, stock, or both, at fair appraisals; we have the statement of one impartial historian that Rockefeller was decidedly "more humane toward competitors" than Carnegie; we have the conclusion of another that his wealth was "the least tainted of all the great fortunes of his day."
Biographer Ron Chernow wrote of Rockefeller:
“What makes him problematic—and why he continues to inspire ambivalent reactions—-is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad. Seldom has history produced such a contradictory figure.”
Notwithstanding these varied aspects of his public life, Rockefeller may ultimately be remembered simply for the raw size of his wealth. In 1902, an audit showed Rockefeller was worth about $200 million—compared to the total national GDP of $101 billion then. His wealth continued to grow significantly (in line with US economic growth) after as the demand for gasoline soared, eventually reaching about $900 million on the eve of WW1, including significant interests in banking, shipping, mining, railroads, and other industries. By the time of his death in 1937, Rockefeller's remaining fortune, largely tied up in permanent family trusts, was estimated at $1.4 billion. Rockefeller's net worth over the last decades of his life would easily place him among the very wealthiest persons in history. As a percentage of the United States economy, no other American fortune—including Bill Gates or Sam Walton—would even come close.
The Rockefeller wealth, distributed as it was through a system of foundations and trusts, continued to fund family philanthropic, commercial, and, eventually, political aspirations throughout the 20th century. Grandson David Rockefeller was a leading New York banker, serving for over 20 years as CEO of Chase Manhattan (now part of JP Morgan Chase). Another grandson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, was Republican governor of New York and the 41st Vice President of the United States. A third grandson, Winthrop Rockefeller, served as Republican Governor of Arkansas. Great-grandson, John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV is currently a Democratic Senator from West Virginia, and another, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, served ten years as Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
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[Biografía] John D. Rockefeller: el hombre que regaló la fortuna más grande de la historia
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John D. Rockefeller es una figura histórica muy controvertida, y en este post intentamos aclarar muchísimas dudas e ideas preconcebidas que existen sobre ella. Pero primero, algo de historia…
John D. Rockefeller es recordado como uno de los capitalistas más importantes de la historia americana. Fue a la vez el hombre de negocios más admirado y al mismo tiempo el más odiado en Estados Unidos. Considerado uno de los grandes “Robber Barons” (o industrialistas), ha cambiado de connotaciones muy negativas a comienzos de este siglo a connotaciones mixtas para finales del mismo. La historia de John D. Rockefeller es la historia de la industria petrolera estadounidense. El petróleo paso a ser de un producto no industrializado, a la principal industria económica mundial en manos de este magnate.
Foto: John D. Rockefeller en el año 1915
John D. Rockefeller no sólo creó la Standard Oil, que fue el más grande imperio de negocios en la Tierra a principios del siglo XX, sino que formó el más extenso imperio de filantropía, creando la Universidad de Chicago, el Spelman College, la Universidad Rockefeller, el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, The Cloisters, y la Fundación Rockefeller. Su relato muestra a uno de los personajes de negocios más despiadados e implacables de todos los tiempos que luego se convirtió en una de las mentes filantrópicas, caritativas y con mayor visión de futuro que el mundo haya visto jamás.
Primeros años
Nacido en Richford, Nueva York, el 8 de julio de 1839. Se trasladó con su familia a Cleveland, Ohio, a la edad de catorce años. Sin miedo al trabajo duro, tuvo su primer trabajo en la empresa Hewitt & Tuttle, a los 16 años, como contador asistente. A los veinte años, Rockefeller, que había prosperado bastante en su trabajo, se aventuró por cuenta propia a la comercialización de heno, carne, grano y otros bienes. Al cierre del primer año, su compañía ya había recaudado cuatrocientos cincuenta mil dólares. Estos hechos nos demuestran que desde joven, John tuvo predisposición al enriquecimiento; algo muy común dentro de la religión protestante, concretamente la iglesia bautista.
Rockefeller fundó la Standard Oil Company en el 1870
Rockefeller fue un hombre cuidadoso y estudioso que se abstuvo de tomar riesgos innecesarios. Percibió su primera oportunidad en el negocio del petróleo a principios de 1860, cuando pasaba por una mala racha financiera. Con la producción de crudo aumentando gradualmente en el oeste de Pennsylvania, decidió gastarse el total de sus ahorros y establecer una refinería cerca de Cleveland, a poca distancia de Pittsburgh, en 1863. Dos años después ésta se convirtió en la más grande de la zona y no pasaron muchos otros éxitos empresariales para que Rockefeller, de apenas veintiséis años de edad, se diera cuenta de que el negocio del petróleo era lo suyo.
Foto: Daguerrotipo de John D. Rockefeller a los 18 años de edad.
Standard Oil
En 1870, fundó junto a sus colaboradores la “Standard Oil Company”, que prosperó de inmediato gracias a las condiciones económicas/industriales favorables y gracias al ingenio de Rockefeller para agilizar las operaciones de la empresa. El nombre de la compañía, que en español significa “Petróleo normal”, se originó porque había muchas quejas de que el queroseno era muy peligroso e inflamable y él se preocupó por sacar una formula estable, dándole esa imagen “standard” a su producto que era tan demandada entonces. Además, fue la primera compañía que descubrió el potencial de la gasolina para los motores.
El comportamiento monopolístico de la Standard Oil no fue tomado con agrado por la gente
Con el éxito y el dinero, llegó a desplazar a la competencia y a empezar una monopolización del negocio. Los movimientos financieros de Standard Oil eran tan rápidos y radicales que en poco tiempo, específicamente en un plazo de dos años, controlaron la mayoría de las refinerías en el área de Cleveland. Hizo tratos, en principio favorables, con los ferrocarrileros de la zona para la distribución de su petróleo, concretamente con el acaudalado Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pero luego, Standard Oil se metió en el negocio de los oleoductos y terminales, creando así su propio sistema de transporte para dejar de depender de los ferrocarriles.
Foto: Daguerrotipo de un campo petrolero en Pensilvania durante la llamada “Fiebre del petróleo de Pensilvania”.
La huella de la empresa se hizo más grande cuando empezó a comprar a sus competidores, no sólo los más cercanos, sino también en otras regiones; persiguió la ambición de ser el único jugador de la industria, tanto de los EE.UU. como del mundo. Así que, en poco más de una década desde que se creó, ya Standard Oil tenía casi todo el monopolio del petróleo en los EE.UU.
Por desgracia, con este empuje tan agresivo que tuvo, el público y el Congreso de los Estados Unidos se dieron cuenta de su marcha implacable. Su comportamiento monopolístico no fue tomado con agrado. En el año 1890, el Congreso promulgó la Ley Sherman Antitrust, una famosa ley antimonopolios, y dos años más tarde, la Corte Suprema de Ohio consideró a Standard Oil una empresa que estaba violando la ley. Pero como siempre a un paso por delante, Rockefeller había disuelto la corporación en empresas más pequeñas y permitió que cada una de estas propiedades, bajo su tutela, fuera manejada por otros ejecutivos. La jerarquía global de Standard se mantuvo intacta, aunque las decisiones eran tomadas por una junta directiva.
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Foto: Daguerrotipo de una refinería en Cleveland, 1889
Apenas nueve años después de que la gran compañía se rompió en más de treinta y cinco pedazos a causa de la legislación antimonopolio, las piezas se volvieron a juntar de nuevo en un holding, en 1911. Sin embargo, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos declaró a esta nueva entidad en violación de la Ley Antimonopolio Sherman, por lo que fue obligada a disolverse de nuevo. En la actualidad, muchas de esas empresas han evolucionado en grandes consorcios comerciales independientes del rubro petrolero y sus derivados, como ExxonMobil, ConocoPhilips y Chevron, todas aún pertenecientes a los bisnietos y tataranietos de Rockefeller.
Su vocación religiosa lo llevó a regalar casi todo su dinero a la caridad
Las ambiciones monopolísticas de Rockefeller, fundadas en su deseo por superar a cuanto industrialista hubiese en Estados Unidos, lo convirtieron en una persona despiadada que exigía mucho de las personas que trabajaban para él. Se dice que en esa época, las condiciones del trabajador promedio de la Standard Oil eran muy precarias y se consideraban como víctimas de explotación, de allí el que muchos aún consideren a John D. Rockefeller como un malvado o ese tipo de empresario que no debería existir.
Foto: Famosa caricatura política de 1904 que representa al monopolio de la Standard Oil como un pulpo gigante que lo toma todo.
Devoción religiosa y espíritu caritativo
John fue un devoto Bautista; era un abstemio, no fumaba y no frecuentaba las fiestas, a diferencia de sus competidores, que eran, según él, “viciosos e inmorales”; llegó a decir que la religión había sido uno de los pilares de su éxito; era extremadamente frugal, incluso se daba y permitía a su familia pocos lujos; y una vez jubilado (en 1895, a los cincuenta y seis años), se residenció en su rancho de Nueva York y se mantuvo ocupado colaborando con la iglesia local y haciendo obras de caridad. Se cree que, más que una decisión bien pensada, su jubilación a una edad usualmente temprana se debió a problemas de salud que desmejoraron en gran medida su calidad de vida.
Su vocación religiosa lo llevó, en un momento de su vida, a arrepentirse de todo lo malo que hubiese podido haber hecho para convertirse en el hombre más rico de la historia y a tomar una decisión trascendental: regalar casi todo su dinero a la caridad. Ese dinero ayudó a financiar la creación de la Universidad de Chicago (1892), a la que había donado más de ochenta millones de dólares para el momento de su muerte. También ayudó a fundar el Instituto Rockefeller para la Investigación Médica (más tarde llamado Universidad Rockefeller) en Nueva York y la Fundación Rockefeller, que creó un sistema de ayudas continuas, entregando así más de quinientos treinta millones de dólares a diversas causas benéficas.
Foto: Acción de la antigua Standard Oil Company.
Foto: Logo de ExxonMobil una de las empresas que se desprendió de la antigua Standard Oil
Su único hijo varón, también llamado John, continuó con su legado filantrópico. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, él ayudó a establecer la United Service Organizations (USO), y después de la guerra, donó el terreno para que se construyera la actual sede de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York. También donó cinco millones de dólares para el Centro Lincoln para las Artes Escénicas de la ciudad de la misma ciudad.
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John D. Rockefeller en 1911
En total, Rockefeller tuvo cinco hijos con su esposa, Laura. Estos fueron la primera generación de una familia que no sólo siguió una vasta tradición empresarial y filantrópica hasta nuestros días, sino que ocupó cargos políticos de envergadura para los Estados Unidos, como Nelson Rockefeller, que llegó a la vicepresidencia del país en 1974.
John D. Rockefeller, falleció el 23 de mayo de 1937, en Ormond Beach, Florida, a la edad de noventa y siete años. Para el momento de su muerte ya era considerado uno de los principales hombres de negocios de los Estados Unidos y se le reconoce por ayudar a dar forma a la cultura americana como la conocemos hoy en día.
Frases célebres de Rockefeller
“No trabaje por el dinero, deje que el dinero trabaje por usted”.
“Si su único objetivo en la vida es ser rico, jamás lo logrará”.
“El crecimiento de un gran negocio es simplemente la supervivencia del más apto… la bella rosa estadounidense sólo puede lograr el máximo de su esplendor y perfume que nos encantan, si sacrificamos a los capullos que crecen en su alrededor. Esto no es una tendencia maligna en los negocios. Es más bien sólo la elaboración de una ley de la naturaleza y de una ley de Dios”.
“Dios me dio mi riqueza”.
“Creo que el ahorro es esencial para una buena vida”.
“Prefiero ganar el 1% de beneficio en los esfuerzos de 100 personas que el 100% de mi propio esfuerzo”.
“Tengo maneras de hacer dinero de las que no tienes ni idea”.
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