David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller is an American banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He is the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family and family patriarch since July 2004. Rockefeller is also the only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller.

Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York, and grew up in a ninestory house atWest 54th Street, the tallest private residence ever built in the city. He is the youngest of six children born to financier John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and socialite Abigail Greene Abby Aldrich. John Jr. was the only son of Standard Oil cofounder John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia Cettie Spelman. Abby was a daughter of Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich and Abigail Pearce Truman Abby Chapman. Davids five elder siblings were Abby , John III , Nelson , Laurance , and Winthrop . The home contained rare, ancient, medieval and Renaissance treasures collected by his fatherwith some, such as the Unicorn Tapestries, held in an adjoining building atWest 54th Street. On the seventh floor was his mothers private modern art gallery. The house was subsequently donated by Davids father as a site for a sculpture garden that is now part of the Museum of Modern Art. He spent much time a

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