Originally published in 1920 as a portion of the author’s larger work, “Famous Leaders of Industry,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life and career of U.S. industrialist and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller.
Includes supplemental material:
•A Brief Summary of the Life of John D. Rockefeller
•About the Early Years of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research
Sample passage:
The next year he was offered a salary of seven hundred dollars, but considered that he was worth eight hundred. When April came, this salary matter not having been settled, he resigned because of an opportunity he saw to go into the same business for himself. This opportunity came about in this way: Among the merchants in Cleveland, whose acquaintance he had made, was a young Englishman, M. B. Clark, who at this time wanted to enter business for himself and was looking for a partner. He had two thousand dollars and was looking for a man with a like sum. Young Rockefeller had been very thrifty, but he had only saved about eight hundred dollars, and didn’t know where to get the balance. On talking over the matter at home, however, his father told him he had always intended to give each of his children a thousand dollars when they reached twenty-one. He offered to give John his share then and there if he would pay him interest at the rate of ten percent until he was twenty-one.
About the author:
Edwin Wildman was the Editor of the periodical “The Forum” from 1918-1920 and was the author of several books, including “Reconstructing America, Our Next Big Job” and “Famous Leaders of Character.”
Includes supplemental material:
•A Brief Summary of the Life of John D. Rockefeller
•About the Early Years of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research
Sample passage:
The next year he was offered a salary of seven hundred dollars, but considered that he was worth eight hundred. When April came, this salary matter not having been settled, he resigned because of an opportunity he saw to go into the same business for himself. This opportunity came about in this way: Among the merchants in Cleveland, whose acquaintance he had made, was a young Englishman, M. B. Clark, who at this time wanted to enter business for himself and was looking for a partner. He had two thousand dollars and was looking for a man with a like sum. Young Rockefeller had been very thrifty, but he had only saved about eight hundred dollars, and didn’t know where to get the balance. On talking over the matter at home, however, his father told him he had always intended to give each of his children a thousand dollars when they reached twenty-one. He offered to give John his share then and there if he would pay him interest at the rate of ten percent until he was twenty-one.
About the author:
Edwin Wildman was the Editor of the periodical “The Forum” from 1918-1920 and was the author of several books, including “Reconstructing America, Our Next Big Job” and “Famous Leaders of Character.”
