Company context
The public record describes Standard Oil as defunct American oil company (1870–1911). Its recorded founding year is 1870.
- Public business description
- defunct American oil company (1870–1911)
- Country recorded for the company
- United States
- Founding year in source record
- 1870
Recorded founders
- William Rockefeller · American financier, businessman, and Standard Oil co-founder (1841-1922)
- John D. Rockefeller · American industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)
The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.
Understanding Standard Oil in context
Standard Oil is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “defunct American oil company (1870–1911),” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 1870. The source links 2 people in this library to the founding team. Each has a separate profile, which makes it possible to follow the people behind the business without treating one founder as its sole owner.
No official website has been confirmed in this reference record. Use the source trail to distinguish the business from similarly named organizations before contacting it. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.
This reference library documents public founding associations, including historical businesses and founders. A company may have changed ownership, name, or operating status since the recorded founding event. It is separate from our revenue-qualified growth profiles. Founding does not establish current ownership, employment, company revenue, or an AE client relationship.
Research trail
- Wikidata public record Q375791: company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
Following up with the business
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