Portrait of John D. Rockefeller Jr.

People/financier

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

John D. Rockefeller Jr., financier, from United States. Linked to coal.

Legacy

After Ludlow he was the main target of union and public hostility as the primary stockholder of Colorado Fuel and Iron. Upton Sinclair and others protested outside his New York office.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 20 April 1914Ludlow Massacre3
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Events

InvestigatedLudlow MassacreHe became the main target of public anger after the Ludlow Massacre.1

Sources

  1. Ludlow Massacre Colorado Encyclopedia
  2. File pages and licence metadata for portraits (via the Commons imageinfo/extmetadata API) Wikimedia Commons
  3. War in the Coalfields: the Ludlow Massacre and its impact on the eight-hour workday US National Park Service

Pictures on this page: John D. Rockefeller Jr. cph.3a03736.jpg, Underwood & Underwood (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.