Ebook: Rockefeller's Cleveland
Author: Rockefeller John Davison, Gregor Sharon E
- Tags: History, Pictorial works, Rockefeller John D. -- (John Davison) -- 1839-1937, Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works, Ohio -- Cleveland
- Series: Postcard history series
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
- City: Charleston;SC;Cleveland (Ohio);Ohio;Cleveland
- Language: English
- epub
John D. Rockefeller arrived in Cleveland in 1853 a boy of 14 and spent six decades in his adopted hometown. With the Standard Oil Company's incorporation in 1870, Rockefeller became the city's most well-known industrialist and, from 1885 to 1917, its foremost summer resident at his Forest Hill estate. Here he raised his children, laid the foundation of a financial and industrial empire, and established a commitment to charitable giving. At the end of the Civil War, Cleveland was a crucible from which would be cast the fortunes of many. None were greater than Rockefeller's. Rockefeller's Cleveland captures the visual panorama of a dynamic city that literally reinvented itself in the 1800s and in doing so emerged a major business and industrial center.
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