Rockefeller Archive Center

And I love my goats so much, but right now I'm traveling.

I was at the Rockefeller Archive Center, uh, this morning, and I just got back to my hotel room.

So I'm coming to you from Tarrytown, New York.

And there are no goats in Tarrytown, and you didn't bring any goats on your research trip?

And the Rockefeller kids attended Cleveland Central High School before leaving formal schooling for more commercial training.

I'll be referencing a lot of documentation from the Rockefeller Archive Center.

And that at this point, it notes that he entered the Folsom Mercantile College and completed a six month business course in about three months.

And in 1855, obtained work as an assistant bookkeeper with the Cleveland Commission merchants, Hewitt and Tuttle, which would be his first foray into kind of enterprise industry level work.

Well, we're going to stop and talk a little bit about his father because, boy, is he interesting.

We've got our main source for this is a book called Titan by Ron Chernow.

So he talks a lot about his father, but we're going to start with the Rockefeller Archive Center.

And they classify him simply as an entrepreneur.