Title: John D. Rockefeller - Wikipedia
Headings: John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Contents
Early life
Pre-Standard Oil career
As a bookkeeper
Business partnership and Civil War service
Beginning in the oil business
Standard Oil
Founding and early growth
Monopoly
Colorado Fuel and Iron
Strike of 1913–14 and the Ludlow Massacre
Illnesses and death
Personal life
Family
Marriage
Religious views
Philanthropy
Florida home
Legacy
Wealth
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: Rockefeller spent much of the last 40 years of his life in retirement at Kykuit, his estate in Westchester County, New York, defining the structure of modern philanthropy, along with other key industrialists such as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research. His foundations pioneered developments in medical research and were instrumental in the near-eradication of hookworm and yellow fever in the United States. He and Carnegie gave form and impetus through their charities to the work of Abraham Flexner, who in his essay "Medical Education in America" emphatically endowed empiricism as the basis for the US medical system of the 20th century. Rockefeller was also the founder of the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funded the establishment of Central Philippine University in the Philippines. He was a devout Northern Baptist and supported many church-based institutions. He adhered to total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco throughout his life. For advice, he relied closely on his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller with whom he had five children. He was a faithful congregant of the Erie Street Baptist Mission Church, taught Sunday school, and served as a trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor. Religion was a guiding force throughout his life and he believed it to be the source of his success.