Background
Rockefeller, Percy Avery was born on February 27, 1878 in New York City. Son of William and Almira (Goodsell) Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, Percy Avery was born on February 27, 1878 in New York City. Son of William and Almira (Goodsell) Rockefeller.
He attended Yale University from 1897 to 1900, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
Percy married Isabel Goodrich Stillman (died 1935) on April 23, 1901. She was the younger daughter of First National City Bank president James Jewett Stillman (now known as Citibank) and Sarah Elizabeth Rumrill. He died on September 25, 1934.
He was a board director of Air Reduction Company, American International Corporation, Atlantic Fruit Company, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bowman Biltmore Hotels Company, Cuba Company, Chile Copper Company, Consolidated Gas Company, Greenwich Trust Company, West. A. Harriman & Company
& Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, Mesabi Iron Company, National City Bank of New York, National City Company, New York Edison Company, North American Reassurance Company, National Surety Company, Provident Loan Society, Remington Arms, United Electric Light & Power Company, and Western Union.
Member New York Stock Exchange. Director The Boys’; member of board of managers New York Zoöl. Society; member American Museum Natural History.
Married Isabel Stillman, April. Children: Avery, Isabel (Mistress Frederic West. Lincoln), Winifred (Mistress Brooks Enemy), Faith, Gladys.