John D. Rockefeller, "Mutum Mafi Girma a Duniya" a farkon karni na 20, an haife shi a yankin Finger Lakes na New York amma ya koma tare da iyalinsa a arewa maso gabashin Ohio lokacin da yaro.
Rockefeller, wanda ya ci gaba da gano Kamfanin Oil Oil Company, ya bar alamarsa a arewa maso gabashin Ohio, wato Cleveland , don bayar da kuɗi don wuraren shakatawa, gine-gine, da kuma wasu cibiyoyin ƙaunataccen yankin.
Rockefeller's Early Life
An haifi Rockefeller a Richford, New York, wani karamin gari a kusa da Finger Lakes.
Iyalinsa suka koma Strongsville lokacin da yake ƙuruciya kuma Rockefeller ya halarci babban makarantar sakandare na Cleveland kafin ya dauki aiki a matsayin sakataren ma'aikata na kasuwanci na Cleveland Henry B. Tuttle da Isaac L. Hewitt.
Kamfanin Hanyoyin Ciniki
A shekara ta 1859, Rockefeller da abokin tarayya, Maurice Clark ya kafa kwamishinan kwamishinan su, wanda ya ci gaba yayin da garin ya karu a cikin shekaru bayan yakin basasa.
A shekara ta 1870, ya bar kasuwancin kasuwanci don gano kamfanin Oil Oil Company, wanda aka kafa a cikin Cleveland Flats. Kamfanin yayi girma ya zama daya daga cikin kamfanoni mafi girma da kuma cin nasara a tarihin Amurka, daga bisani an raba su cikin kamfanoni 34 masu rarraba a sakamakon rashin amincewa.
A shekarun Cleveland
A Cleveland, Rockefeller ya bi da hanyoyi masu yawa da ke yamma da yamma. Yana da gidan gida a kan Rowar Millionaire ta Uclid Avenue da kuma wani yanki na eastside, Forest Hills, a cikin abin da ke yanzu East Cleveland da Cleveland Heights.
Rockefeller ya yi aure Laura Spelman, dan ƙasar Wadsworth, a 1864 kuma ma'auratan suna da 'ya'ya mata hudu da ɗa daya.
Sun kasance mambobi ne na Erie Street Baptist Church (daga bisani aka kira Euclid Avenue Baptist Church).
Taimakon Rockefeller ga Cleveland
Ko da yake ya koma Birnin New York (tare da kamfanin Oil Oil Company) a 1884, Rockefeller ya bar alamarsa a arewa maso gabashin Ohio a cikin manyan cibiyoyin da ya taimakawa wajen tallafawa.
Daga cikinsu akwai:
- Ƙananan Alta House na Isaliya
- Western Reserve Historical Society
- Rockefeller Park da Cleveland Cultural Gardens
- Cleveland Arcade
- Cleveland YMCA
Bugu da ƙari, Rockefeller ya bar wani ɓangare daga gandun dajin Forest Hill zuwa garuruwan East Cleveland da Cleveland Heights, wanda ya buɗe shi a matsayin wani shakatawa a 1942.
Ci gaba zuwa New York
Wadansu suna cewa dukiyarsa ba ta da yawa ga Cleveland; wasu sun furta cewa gwamnatin Cleveland ba ta da tausayi ga Rockefeller, ta yanke shawara ta biyan shi maimakon a karfafa shi da jin dadi. Kowace hanya, Rockefeller ya tura iyalinsa da kamfaninsa zuwa Birnin New York a 1884, ko da yake ya ci gaba da bazara a Forest Hill har sai gidan ya kone a cikin ƙasa a shekarar 1917.
Bayan wutar a Forest Hill, Rockefeller bai sake komawa Cleveland ba. Ya shafe shekarunsa a dukiyarsa a Ormond Beach, Florida da Westchester County, New York.
Ƙarshen shekaru da Mutuwa
John D. Rockefeller ya mutu a shekara ta 1937, kamar dai watanni dariya na haihuwarsa na 98. Mutumin da ya fara aiki a Arewa maso gabashin Ohio kuma wanda ya taimaka wajen tallafawa manyan makarantun Cleveland ya koma Cleveland don a binne su a cikin kurmin Lake View a karkashin ƙananan obelisk.
Bayan bin al'ada na bada dimes ga matalauta, baƙi zuwa Lake View wurin dimes a kan kabarinsa da fatan samun Rockefeller-kamar dũkiya.
(sabunta 11-19-11)