J. P. Morgan, John Rockefeller: Captain Of Industry

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George Eastman, J.P Morgan, John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie are all Captains of Industry. Part of being a Captain of Industry is donating money to organizations and charities. It is called being a philanthropist. An example of them donating money is John Rockefeller. Rockefeller was a very wealthy man in the oil industry. In 1903 he founded the ‘General Education Board’. They helped to build high schools throughout the South. Rockefeller donated $50,000,000 to the board to raise academic salaries. (All of the information was from the reading). 50 million dollars is an extremely large amount of money. By donating money he, helped many people and children receive education. He was not greedy and kept all the money for himself,
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