LAGOS, Nigeria—Africa’s richest person, industrial titan Aliko Dangote, has a lofty goal: He wants to become Nigeria’s John D ... barrels of oil a day by next month. The refinery is by ...

John D. Rockefeller, one of the most powerful and ... partnership with oil driller Maurice Clark and built his first oil refinery in Cleveland in 1863. Rockefeller and Clark would in 1870 become ...

Rockefeller Sr. with family. Rockefeller Archives. The so-called Cleveland Massacre was the beginning of John D. Rockefeller's drive toward an oil monopoly, and it is considered one of his ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Dec. 9. -John D. Rockefeller came here yesterday noon for luncheon at the Mansion House, ate lobster and planked chicken, "jollied" members of the Middlesex Grand Jury ...

A. D. John. Standard Oil Company founder Rockefeller (1839-1937) was one of the most wealthy people in the world. A decade later, in 1880, he founded Standard Oil, which dominated 90 percent of United ...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Rockefeller Archive Center ... Why one should love an oil refinery the outsider may not see; but to the man who had begun with one still and had seen it grow by his ...