1855 CE: JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, 16, LEARNS BOOKKEEPING

–single and double–entry

–at Folsom Commercial College in Cleveland.

He would later found Standard Oil.

A founder of both The University of Chicago and Rockefeller University (Manhattan), as well as the prime benefactor of Spelman College (Atlanta, Georgia) and Denison University (Granville, Ohio), Rockefeller was a devoted Baptist.

(b. July, 1839; d. May, 1937)