Her admirer, Mark Twain, had introduced her to Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers, who, with his wife Abbie, paid for her education.

He became friends with such self-made men as Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers ; Sears, Roebuck and Company President Julius Rosenwald ; and George Eastman, inventor and founder of Kodak.

She was the daughter of Frederic B. Pratt, longtime head of the Pratt Institute and granddaughter of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt.

In 1902 she conducted detailed interviews with the Standard Oil magnate.

A banker and investor, Whitney was the son of William C. Whitney, and his mother was the daughter of a Senator, and sister of a Standard Oil Company magnate.

Examples of well-known business magnates include Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, utility and transportation magnate Samuel Insull, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, automobile magnate Henry Ford, Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal, poultry magnate Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms, shipping magnate Charles T. Hinde, automobile magnate Ferdinand Piëch of Volkswagen Group, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, and sports entertainment magnate Vince McMahon of WWE.

Oil magnate Marvin Davis, who had acquired 20th Century Fox, was not interested in the record company, hence its sale.

As well as being the foremost shipping magnate of the British Empire, Lord Inchcape was a director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and of the D ' Arcy Exploration Company.

The family had become quite wealthy by the time Trudeau was in his teens, as his father sold his prosperous gas station business to Imperial Oil.

Perhaps in one of history's ironies, another resident of Venango County about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined by the South Improvement Company scheme of 1871 and the conglomerate which became Standard Oil.

After college, he worked with his father at the Scotch Oil Company in Madison.

His father was an oil refinery worker at the Ashland Oil Refinery, one of the ten largest oil refineries in the world, in nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky and his mother was a caterer.

Later, Tarbell would vividly recall this situation in her work, as she accused the leaders of the Standard Oil Company of using unfair tactics to put her father and many small oil companies out of business.

At the end of the three-hour premiere episode " Oil ", Steven finally confronts his father, criticizing Blake's capitalistic values and seemingly-amoral business practices.

He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers.

Paul Desmarais is also the former employer of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney and Maurice Strong, the " father of the Kyoto Accords, which was sacked for taking part in a fraud of 10 billion USD under the food program in Iraq Oil cons.

His father was a plant operator in Attock Oil Refinery, Morgah.

Beginning in 1881, he worked for the Standard Oil trust of John D. Rockefeller, getting his start in the oil business at Charles Pratt & Company, a refinery owned by Charles Pratt, the father of his Adelphi and Amherst classmate Charles Millard Pratt.

His father worked as a senior executive for Conoco Oil.

In 1972, Rowling began working for Tana Oil and Gas, which was owned by his father, Reese Rowling, and William Colson.

He is married to Canadian Olympian Karen Percy, and is the father of Edmonton Oil Kings defenceman Keegan Lowe, who was drafted by the Carolina Hurricanes in the third round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.

His father also worked in civilian life for Anglo-Persian Oil, which later became British Petroleum.

William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. ( November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906 ) was the father of American oil tycoon and billionaire, John Davison Rockefeller ( July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937 ) and William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. ( 1841 – 1922 ), who both founded the Standard Oil company.

Starting at age five, J. R. was groomed to be the heir apparent to his father Jock at Ewing Oil, an independent oil company that Jock ran in a very cutthroat, ruthless manner.

His father Percy Higgitt gave up his nearby homestead when Leonard was four to be an Imperial Oil agent and grain buyer for the Canadian Consolidated Grain Company ; later taking over the local store and post office which he operated for over forty years, and ultimately spending many hours in public service to the community in various capacities covering a period of forty-six years.

His father died in 1923, and Neame took a job with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company as an office boy.

He joined the oil business to please his father ; however, he eventually sold the family's Getty Oil to Texaco in 1986 for US $ 10 billion.

While her family resided in New York City, where her father was a key man in the Standard Oil Trust, young Millicent Rogers and her sisters and brother had been happy vacation and weekend habitués of the little town from birth, and with their parents, both of whom were themselves Fairhaven natives — had spent happy, care-free hours there among relatives and friends, in particular communion with both maternal and paternal grandparents.

After the war, he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and held various jobs in farming, ranching, and the oil industry, inheriting ownership of the Tulsa-based Keener Oil and Gas Company from his father, David A. Bartlett.

His son, Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr. has served as Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma since 2009, as a former member of the Tulsa City Council from 1990 to 1994, and has inherited the Keener Oil and Gas Company from his father.

His father was a truck driver for Union Oil at the time.

His father, Guram Varshalomidze, an erstwhile ally of Abashidze, chaired the Supreme Council of Adjara in the mid-1990s, later headed the region's statistics office and would led the Georgian Oil Corporation from July 2004 to 2005.

Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller & Evangelism in the Age of Oil by Gerard Colby & Charlotte Dennett, Chapter 25 Building The Warfare State, p. 370 with references to William Kintner mainly on page 371.

* Colby, Gerard, and Charlotte Dennett: Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil ( Harper Collins 1995 ), ISBN 0-06-016764-5.

Those on board to monitor the test were Mr. Hartley ( Anglo-Iranian Oil ), Mr. Tombs ( Anglo-Iranian Oil ), Mr. Colby ( Iraq Petroleum ), Mr. Betson ( Post Office ), Commander Hardy ( Admiralty ) and Mr. Whitehead OBE ( Johnson and Phillips ), who had designed the pipe handling equipment.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

The " Go Beyond Oil " campaign also involves applying political pressure on the governments who allow oil exploration in their territories ; with the group stating that one of the key aims of the " Go Beyond Oil " campaign is to " work to expose the lengths the oil industry is willing to go to squeeze the last barrels out of the ground and put pressure on industry and governments to move beyond oil.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

Cartoon showing Landis delivering his sentence against Standard Oil, a fine of $ 29, 240, 000, to John D. Rockefeller, who was actually in Cleveland at the time

Support acts for the first concert included The Church, Mental as Anything, The Party Boys, The Sunnyboys, and Midnight Oil — who acknowledged, " Hooks were the only Australian band they would let top the bill above them ".

Henry Rogers was a self-made man, who had risen from a modest working-class family to become a principal of Standard Oil, and had become one of the richest men in the United States.

Oil on panel. A Lutheran understanding of the Eucharist is distinct from the Reformed doctrine of the Eucharist in that Lutherans affirm a real, physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist ( as opposed to either a " spiritual presence " or a " memorial ") and Lutherans affirm that the presence of Christ does not depend on the faith of the recipient ; the repentant receive Christ in the Eucharist worthily, the unrepentant who receive the Eucharist risk the wrath of Christ.

* Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran a afoul with Ageis Oil

The South Texas Oil Boom included wells drilled in Zapata County in the early 1920s through the work of Laredo industrialist Oliver Winfield Killam, a Missouri native who once served as an Oklahoma state legislator.

Upham Oil and Gas Company has operated in Palo Pinto County since its founding in 1956 by the late Chet Upham of Mineral Wells, who was also the chairman of the Texas Republican Party from 1979-1983.

In 1861, it was the location of Wamsutta Oil Refinery, the first business venture of Henry Huttleston Rogers, who became a leading United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.

Shortly later, Rogers met oil pioneer Charles Pratt who purchased the entire output of the tiny Wamsutta Oil Refinery.

Introduced to each other in 1902 by their mutual friend Mark Twain, Tarbell who had become an investigative journalist and Rogers, who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, which many historians feel helped fuel public sentiment against the giant company and helped lead to the court-ordered break-up of it in 1911.

Palm Beach was established as a resort by Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of Standard Oil, who made the Atlantic coast barrier island accessible via his Florida East Coast Railway.

The park in Oil City is named for Earl Williamson, who served for forty years on the Caddo Parish police jury ( 1933 – 1972 and again from 1979 – 1980 and as mayor of Vivian from 1938 – 1946 and again from 1962-1966.

Adjacent to the cotton exhibit is the " Black Gold ", a replica of an oilfield roughneck -- a general laborer worker who loading and unloads cargo from crane baskets and keeps the drilling equipment clean -- employed in the early 1930s by the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company.

In 1861, it was the site of Wamsutta Oil Refinery, the first business venture of Henry Huttleston Rogers, who became a leading United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.

Shortly later, Rogers met oil pioneer Charles Pratt who purchased the entire output of the tiny Wamsutta Oil Refinery.

Henry Rogers was a self-made man who had become a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.