The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Stan correspondent
 The vast fortune which the elder Rockefeller handed on intact to his only son will be considerably broken up by the time the next generation take it over.
 The present John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has five sons and 8 daughter, all of whom may be expected even- tually to share in the properties. And already there are seven grand children, who should in turn bring about further division of the estate.
 It is useless to guess at the pres ent size of the Rockefeller fortune. It is almost certainly close on the half-billion mark, probably above it.. Recent gifts of large blocks of Standard Oil stock to the charitable foundations have placed the Rocke- feller family interest below 10 per cent in the key companies. In most cases, of course, with the stocks held by the foundations, and due to widely-held stock, this constitutes a practical working control.
 Already Breaking In" The present market value of shares held in the key companies, Standard of New Jersey, Standard of California, and Socony- Vacuum, is around 100000. Interests in Rockefeller banks" like the Chase National, in coal and mine proper ties, and the vast holdings of real estate, make up what is probably still the greatest fortune in America.
 In accordance with the Rockefeller custom, the sons of John D., Jr., are already breaking in.
 The oldest son, John D. Rockefel- Ter, 3d, serious and sober minded, is already specializing in the admins tration of the philanthropies. As his own father turned after college days to "helping father" so John D. Sd is already a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, Institute for Medical Research, General Educa- ton Board, American Museum of Natural History, China Medical Board and secretary of the board of trustees of the Riverside church. He is also director in Dunbar Ma tional bank. a Negro institution in Harlem backed by the Rockefellers, and of two fire assurance compan- ies.
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 John D. Sd was graduated from Princeton in 1929 after specializing in history and economics and show ing great interest nj church activi- Ya nf tho nnlI0nn V M. c. A. After brief service with the information section of the League of Nations at Geneva, and trip to the Far East, John D., Jr, returned to his real job. Tn 1882 he married Blanchette Ferry Hooker of New York and Greenwich, Conn. They have one daughter, Sandra, and a son, John D. 4th, who was born June 18 of this year.
 Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, the second son, was graduated from Dartmouth in 1880. There, in Rocke- feller tradition again, he lived sim ply, teaching Sunday school class and abstaining from drinking and smoking. With Walter Chrysler, Jr., he collaborated in literary venture. the Five Arts Magazine. He made Phi Beta Kappa and was one of the five seniors who won the right to choose their own courses and attend classes at volition.
 On graduation, Nelson married Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadel- phia, and entered the real estate and business phase of the Rockefel- Ter interests. He was familiar fig ure on the ground during the build ing of Rockefeller Center and at the Forest Hill real estate development in Cleveland.
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