Historic house
Rockefeller family
Standard Oil · United States · founded 1870
Standard Oil built the largest American fortune of the Gilded Age before the 1911 antitrust break-up.
Family fortune
Not published
No desk publishes a consolidated family-level figure for this house.
Generations
7
Documented members
5
Industries
Oil, Banking, Philanthropy
Founders, principals and heirs
John D. Rockefeller
Founder · generation 1 · 1839–1937
Founded Standard Oil in 1870.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Principal · generation 2 · 1874–1960
Directed the family's philanthropy.
Nelson Rockefeller
Heir · generation 3 · 1908–1979
Governor of New York and US Vice President.
David Rockefeller
Heir · generation 3 · 1915–2017
Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank.
Peter Rockefeller
Heir · generation 5
Rockefeller Family Fund trustee.
Legacy
The fortune is now dispersed across hundreds of descendants and foundations, so no single family figure is published.
Evidentiary standard
Family fortunes are only recorded where a named wealth desk publishes a standing family-level estimate; the source and valuation date are shown with the figure. Houses whose assets are held through charitable trusts, foundations, or sovereign vehicles carry no figure, because no verifiable personal total exists. Lineage entries are limited to publicly documented family members.