page_title: William Rockefeller Jr.
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: William Rockefeller Jr. / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Jekyll Island: Rockefeller Cottage
context_page_description: William Avery Rockefeller Jr. was an American businessman and financier. Rockefeller was a co-founder of Standard Oil along with his elder brother John Davison Rockefeller. He helped to build up the National City Bank of New York, which became Citigroup. He was also part owner of Anaconda Copper Company, which was the fourth-largest company in the world in the late 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family.
context_section_description: Rockefeller married Almira Geraldine Goodsell (March 19, 1844 – January 17, 1920) on May 25, 1864 in Fairfield, Connecticut. There were many connections among this and other elite families. Her sister Esther Judson Goodsell was married to Oliver Burr Jennings, who became one of the original stockholders of Standard Oil. Together, William and Almira had:
  Lewis Edward Rockefeller (March 2, 1865 – August 3, 1866)
  Emma Rockefeller (June 8, 1868 – August 11, 1934), who married Dr. David Hunter McAlpin
  William Goodsell Rockefeller (May 21, 1870 – November 30, 1922), who married Sarah Elizabeth "Elsie" Stillman
  John Davison Rockefeller II (March 8, 1872 – 1877)
  Percy Avery Rockefeller (February 27, 1878 – September 25, 1934), who married Isabel Goodrich Stillman
  Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller (April 3, 1882 – August 13, 1973), who married Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr.
  William Rockefeller, Jr. died of pneumonia on June 24, 1922 in Tarrytown. He had caught a cold during a car trip he took with brother John and nephew John, Jr. to visit his childhood home in Richford, New York. He was interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York.
  The New York Times, in discussing a trust that Rockefeller set up for his born and yet-to-be born great-grandchildren, stated that he "left a gross estate of $102,000,000 which was reduced to $50,000,000 principally by $30,000,000 of debts and $18,600,000 of inheritance and estate taxes."
  Rockefeller was a regular attendee of the Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Scarborough in the last few years of his life.
caption: Percy Rockefeller's Indian Mound Cottage on Jekyll Island.
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