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The Standard Oil Company was founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller -- other associates, including S. V. Harkness and Henry M. Flagler -- and his brother William Rockefeller. It was organized as the Standard Oil Company of Ohio and capitalized at $1 million.[1]

In 1999, the Mobil Oil Company merged with Exxon (formerly Jersey Standard / Esso) to become Exxon Mobil. [2]

• Chronological History of Standard Oil.

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External links

• John D. Rockefeller, 1839-1937 / Standard Oil Company, The Rockefeller University.
• John D. Rockefeller.
• The Rockefeller Monopoly.
• John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company.
• Henry Huttleston Rogers, Dictionary of American Biography, 1935.
• Oil History.
• Whatever Happened to Standard Oil.