Ancestry of
John D. Rockefeller

Founder of the Standard Oil Company

John Davison

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• • Grandfather of John D. Rockefeller — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • John Davison 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Anderson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 5 Dec 1774 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Jersey 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jun 1858 
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Niles Rural Cemetery, Cayuga County, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sycha "Cynthia" Selover
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  • Child:

  Eliza Davison (Ahnentafel No:3 )

• Sources for John Davison

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/24/2012).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Supplement to April Number, 1923 . . . with Memoirs of Deceased Members, 1922, page xci.
  • ³ New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol. 35, 1781-1784, Abstract of will for father John Davison.
  • ⁴ Abel, Jules, The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune, New York: The Macmillan Company (1965).
  • ⁵ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: n. p. (1912), Vol. 1, p. 586.
  • ⁶ Hadler, Mabel Jacques, Selover-Slover Family 1682-1941, Egeland, North Dakota: Unknown (1941), 171, 181.
  • ⁷ Stasz, Clarice, The Rockefeller Women: Dynasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service, Lincoln, Nebraska: toExcel an imprint of iUniverse.com (2000), 1, chart on page iv.