Ancestry of
Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

John Davison Rockefeller Jr.

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• • Father of Nelson Rockefeller — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • John Davison Rockefeller 
  • Mother:
  • Laura Celestia Spelman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jan 1874 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 May 1960 
  • Death Location:
  • Tucscon, Pima, Arizona 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Rockefeller Family Cemetery, near Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Abby Greene Aldrich
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Oct 1901 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Davidson Rockefeller

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Laurance Spelman Rockefeller

  Winthrop Rockefeller

  David Rockefeller

• Additional marriages for John Davison Rockefeller Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Martha Baird Allen
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Aug 1951

• Sources for John Davison Rockefeller Jr.

  • ¹ Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Immigration Cards, 1900-1965, 1946-1952, Immigration cards for son Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 327.
  • ³ Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Connecticut), 17 APR 1915, p. 1, Obituary for father-in-law Nelson W Aldrich.
  • ⁴ The Journal News (White Plains, New York), 28 JAN 1979, p. 5A, "The Rockefeller Years".
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #92955, Membership application for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
  • ⁶ Avery, Elroy McKendree and Catharine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, The Groton Avery Clan, Cleveland: Unknown (1912), Vol. 1, p. 587.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/07/2017).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 397, 434.
  • ⁹ Rockefeller, Henry Oscar, Rockefeller Genealogy, New York, New York: Rockefeller Family Association (ca.1954-1965), 200, 295.
  • ¹⁰ Treman, Ebenezer Mack and Murray E. Poole, The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America, [Ithaca, New York]: Press of the Ithaca Democrat (1901), 189-193.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "John D. Rockefeller, Jr.", _Jr., (accessed 11/23/2012).