Standard oil company

Standard Oil Company stock certificate issued to William Rockefeller for 250 shares of $100 each. It is signed by John D. Rockefeller and dated April 3, 1875. It was cancelled on December 17, 1878. UN2005.1.17 Museum of American Finance

It's a sloppy and primitive map, but may be helpful. After the breakup of Standard Oil early in the 20th century, there were several Standard Oil companies that could only use the name 'Standard" in certain states.

In 1911, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was broken up into 34 pieces by the Supreme Court. Today, the remnants form the base of the U.S. oil industry.

Standard Oil. Paper maps (... before Garmin, Tom Tom, Google Maps and the like).

Cuyahoga River rises from the ashes and the jokes 50 years after the fire.

John D. Rockefeller's standard oil company

Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and New York were incorporated. Jersey Standard and Socony, as they were commonly known, were the chief predecessor companies of Exxon and Mobil, respectively.

Yukon, OK on US 66.

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Entrepreneur, John D. Rockefeller's standard oil company soon controlled the oil refining business since they surpassed the United States as they were ranked first in world oil production. They controlled the business by horizontal integration. This process controlled the supply of oil and set the prices.

Sterling, a largely uneducated farm hand from Anahuac, founded the first Humble Oil...

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During the "second industrial revolution" there was an incredible boom in the oil regions as well, and a mysterious company seemed to be eating one refinery after the other, including pipelines and transporters. By 1900, JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER's "Standard Oil" controlled nearly 90% of the refined oil production in the U.S.

Chevron (Original name: Standard Oil of California, Former name: Calso, Officially became Chevron in 1972, bought out Standard brand KYSO in the 1960s, bought out Gulf in 1984, Current Status: merged with Texaco to form ChevronTexaco in 2001, company now renamed Chevron Corporation)

standard oil company of new york 1913 , a photo by Captain Geoffrey Spaulding on Flickr.

The 19th century was a period of great change and rapid industrialization. The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel. The discovery of the S...