John Davison Rockefeller

Percy Avery Rockefeller was an American financier, the younger son of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller and a nephew of John D. Rockefeller. Born in New York in 1878, he graduated from Yale, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and became a director of a long list of corporations including Remington Arms, the Brown Brothers banking house, Bethlehem Steel and several Standard Oil successor companies. He married Isabel Stillman, daughter of the banker James Stillman, in 1901, and lived at Owenoke Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut. He was an active yachtsman and thoroughbred owner and remained one of the leading figures of the second Rockefeller generation on Wall Street.

Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge was an American philanthropist, art collector and animal welfare patron, the daughter of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller and a niece of John D. Rockefeller. Born in New York in 1882, she married the Remington Arms head Marcellus Hartley Dodge in 1907, a union widely reported at the time as joining two great American fortunes. From her Giralda Farms estate in Madison, New Jersey, she founded and ran the Morris and Essex Dog Show, for decades the largest in the United States, and bred prize dogs and cattle. A major collector of paintings and sculpture, she left her collection and much of her fortune to museums and to animal welfare causes, endowing the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Rodman Clark Rockefeller was an American businessman and the eldest son of Nelson Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller. Born in 1932 and educated at Princeton and Columbia Business School, he spent most of his career at the International Basic Economy Corporation, the development company his father founded in 1947 to invest in agriculture, housing and food distribution in Latin America, serving as its president and then chairman. He was also chairman of the Council of the Americas and a longtime advocate of private investment as a tool of Latin American development. He was a brother of Steven Clark Rockefeller and of Michael Rockefeller, and a trustee of Rockefeller family philanthropies.

John Davison Rockefeller IV, known as Jay Rockefeller, is an American politician who represented West Virginia in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2015. Born in New York in 1937, the only son of John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, he studied at Harvard and in Japan before joining VISTA in 1964 and being assigned to the small mining community of Emmons, West Virginia, which set the course of his career. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, then served as Secretary of State, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College and Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. In the Senate he chaired the Commerce and Intelligence Committees and worked chiefly on health care and coalfield issues. He married Sharon Percy in 1967.

Peggy Dulany, born Margaret Dulany Rockefeller, is an American philanthropist and the third daughter of David Rockefeller and Peggy McGrath Rockefeller. Born in 1947, she studied at Harvard and took a doctorate in education, and worked in Brazilian favelas and in New York City government before founding the Synergos Institute in 1986. Synergos works to reduce poverty by building partnerships between civil society organizations, governments and business, and by developing what she calls bridging leadership, and it has run programs across Latin America, Africa and Asia. She also co-founded the Global Philanthropists Circle with her father and has served as a trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Winthrop Paul Rockefeller was an American businessman and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas from 1996 until 2006. The only child of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, he was born in 1948 and educated in the United States and Europe, served in the United States Army and worked for a time in the food industry before returning to Arkansas to run the family's Winrock Farms on Petit Jean Mountain, continuing its cattle breeding and agricultural research operations. Elected lieutenant governor as a Republican in 1996 and twice reelected, he focused on economic development, education and rural health, and he chaired Winrock International, the agricultural development organization created from his father's estate.

William Goodsell Rockefeller was an American businessman and banker, the eldest son of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller and a nephew of John D. Rockefeller. Born in New York in 1870 and educated at Yale, he entered his father's business interests and held directorships in the National City Bank of New York, Standard Oil companies and a number of railroads. He married Elsie Stillman, a daughter of the National City Bank president James Stillman, strengthening the long association between the Rockefeller and Stillman families; his brother Percy Avery Rockefeller married her sister Isabel. He lived at Rockwood Hall and in Greenwich, Connecticut, and died in 1922, the same year as his father.

Steven Clark Rockefeller is an American scholar of religion and the second son of Nelson Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller. Born in 1936, he studied at Princeton, Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University and taught religion at Middlebury College in Vermont for more than three decades, serving as dean of the college and now as professor emeritus. His scholarly work includes a major study of John Dewey's religious thought. He chaired the international drafting committee of the Earth Charter, the global declaration of environmental and social principles launched in 2000, and has served as chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He is a brother of Rodman and Michael Rockefeller.

Michael Clark Rockefeller was an American ethnographer and collector of Asmat art, the youngest son of Nelson Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller. Born in 1938, he graduated from Harvard in 1960 and joined the Harvard Peabody Expedition to the Baliem Valley in Netherlands New Guinea as a sound recordist and photographer. He stayed on in the region to collect wood carvings and other works from the Asmat people for the Museum of Primitive Art in New York, which his father had founded. In November 1961 he disappeared off the southwestern coast of New Guinea after the boat he was traveling in was swamped, and he was declared dead in 1964. The collection he assembled forms the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

David Rockefeller Jr. is an American philanthropist and the eldest son of the banker David Rockefeller and Peggy McGrath Rockefeller. Born in 1941 and educated at Harvard and Harvard Law School, he has spent his career in family philanthropy and the arts, serving as chairman of the Rockefeller Family Fund, as a trustee and later chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art and Rockefeller Financial Services. A lifelong sailor, he founded Sailors for the Sea in 2004 to engage the boating community in ocean conservation, and he has served as vice chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation and on the National Park Foundation board.

Abby Rockefeller is an American environmentalist and the eldest daughter of David Rockefeller and Peggy McGrath Rockefeller. Born in 1943, she became active in the radical feminist movement in Boston in the late 1960s as a member of the group Cell 16, which published the journal No More Fun and Games. She then turned to ecological sanitation, introducing the Clivus Multrum composting toilet to the United States in the 1970s and founding a company to manufacture and promote it, arguing that separating human waste from water supplies was a fundamental environmental reform. She has written and lectured on composting, soil and wastewater for decades and supports organic farming in New England.