WEBStandard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height, Standard Oil was the largest petroleum company in the world, and its success made its cofounder and chairman, John D. Rockefeller , among the wealthiest Americans of all time [7] [8] and ...
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Standard Oil | History, Monopoly, & Breakup | Britannica Money
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Standard Oil (in full, Standard Oil Company and Trust) was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States.
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John D. Rockefeller - Biography, Facts & Children | HISTORY
WEBApr 9, 2010 · John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world’s wealthiest men as America's first billionaire and a major philanthropist.
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The History of the Standard Oil Company | work by Tarbell
WEBThe History of the Standard Oil Company, originally a serial that ran in McClure’s, is one of the most thorough accounts of the rise of a business monopoly and its use of unfair practices; her reporting contributed to the subsequent breakup of Standard Oil, which was found to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Standard Oil Established - This Month in Business History
WEBApr 13, 2024 · John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company on January 10, 1870 with his business partners and brother. The success of this business empire made Rockefeller one of the world’s first billionaires and a celebrated philanthropist.
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John D. Rockefeller | Biography, Industry, Philanthropy
WEBApr 4, 2024 · John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Learn more about Standard Oil’s reorganization in the face of antitrust actions and about Rockefeller’s philanthropy.
WEBMay 29, 2018 · United States and Canada. U.S. History. Standard Oil Company. views 2,472,026 updated May 29 2018. Standard Oil Company. Sources. Background. In the 1850s a new industry emerged when refiners discovered that refined petroleum (which up until that point had been bought chiefly for its supposed medicinal properties) made an …
WEBFrom 1870 to 1911, the Standard Oil Company and Trust held control of the United States’s entire oil production. This included oil processing, marketing, and transportation. The company was created and built by John D. Rockefeller and his associates.
WEBHer best-known work, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), exposed the questionable business practices of John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil Trust, which had been formed when Rockefeller combined all his corporations in an attempt to reduce competition and control prices in the oil industry.
