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His Brother John: RICHARD, EARL OF CORNWALL, king of the Romans: b. Winchester, England, Jan. 5, 1209; d. Berkhamstead (Great Berkhamstead), April 2, 1272. He was the son of King John. He fought against France, in the army of his brother Henry III, went on a crusade to Palestine (1240-1242), and on his return to England again assisted his brother in a war against France. In 1257, during ihe interregnum of the Holy Roman Empire, he ms chosen king of the Romans, by a bare ma-ority of the German electors.
ROCKEFELLER, William, American ii dustrialist and financier : b. Richford, Tioga Coui ty, N.Y., May 31, 1841; d. Tarrytown, June 2 1922. The younger brother of John D. Rockefeller, he went with his family to Ohio in 1853. Four years later he entered a Cleveland firm as a bookkeeper. In 1867 he became head of the firm of William Rockefeller & Company, which was established as an export sales subsidiary of his brother's oil concern. This firm eventually became the Standard Oil Company of New York, which •he served as president until 1911. Besides his oil interests, he had large investments in railroads, utilities, and banks.
ROSE, roz, Chauncey, American philanthropist: b. Wethersfield, Conn., 24 Dec. 1794; d. Terre Haute, Ind., 13 Aug. 1877. In 1825 he settled in Terre Haute as a merchant, where by his investments in land he became wealthy. He was an active promoter of railroad interests and was especially interested in the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad. Though legally entitled to the fortune of his brother John, he disposed of almost the entire amount of $1,600,000 in benevolent enterprises which he knew his brother to have favored, and later founded from his own fortune the Rose Polytechnic Institute to which he left the greater share of his estate.
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