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1007:Rodman Clark Rockefeller
998:Hope Aldrich Rockefeller
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258:John Davison Rockefeller
252:Personal life and career
234:Congregationalist Church
225:, relatives of inventor
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1003:Alida Ferry Rockefeller
886:Margaretta Large Fitler
873:Blanchette Ferry Hooker
820:Percy Avery Rockefeller
802:Harold Fowler McCormick
788:Charles Augustus Strong
545:Oxford University Press
322:, at the family estate
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811:Abigail Greene Aldrich
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349:Rockefeller Foundation
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1156:History of Cleveland
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900:Winthrop Rockefeller
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