University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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3ohn . 1RockefeIIer Few men who have held in financial and educational circles so influential a position as Mr. Rockefeller holds have been so little known to the public. Very few people know Mr. Rockefeller by sight and fewer still have had direct business dealing with him. He is extremely modest and retiring and shuns publicity of any sort. His great object seems to be to keep his own personality in the background while he tries to use his great wealth so that it will be of the greatest benefit to mankind. NVhile Mr. Rockefeller gives thou- sands of dollars to this charity and millions to that educational institution, yet his own personal tastes are to the last degree simple and refined. Although not a college-bred man, nor has he had great educational advantages, yet he appreciates the immense value to society of these advan- tages and does all in his power to make them accessible to the American youth. John D. Rockefeller was born in New England in 1839. NVhen he was still a lad his parents moved to Cleveland, where he attended the public schools. He went into business while yet a young man and S0011 be- came owner of a small oil refinery. In 1865 Mr. Rockefeller, his brother William and Samuel J. Andrews twho had discovered a new process for refining crude oily, helped organize The Standard Oil Company. Mr. Rockefeller's personal appearance is much more that of a clergyman or a college professor than of a keen far-sighted business man. He has a strongly marked face, full of character and determination. He lacks en- tirely any arrogance of manner that is so often the accompaniment of great wealth. He is a smnch supporter of the Baptist Church and a regular attendant upon its services. He is superintendent of the Sun- day school of the Euclid Avenue Church. Mr. Rockefeller is domestic in his tastes and devoted to his business, his family and his church. He regards his wealth as a great responsibility which must be administered most carefully. It is,'l to use his own words, very hard to give away money without doing harm, because one is in honor bound to give as carefully as he would in- vest. Yet when he does give to inen in whom he has conndence he gives inost gen- erously and does not in any way modify the policy of the institution to which he gives. He is not even a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago, of which he is recognized as the founder and the most generous patron. So great has been the desire of the trustees to acknowledge this relation that they made the nznne of the institution The University of Chicago, founded hy john D. Rockefeller