Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) was founder and vice president of Owenoke Corporation. 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, W. A. Harriman & Co. & Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, Mesabi Iron Company, National City Bank of New York, National City

National City

-Places in the United States of America:*National City, California*National City, Illinois*National City, Michigan*National City, Nevada, a ghost town now known as Bristol Wells-Banks:...

 Company, New York Edison Company, North American Reassurance Company, National Surety Company, Provident Loan Society, Remington Arms

Remington Arms

Remington Arms Company, Inc. was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons. It is the oldest company in the United States which still makes its original product, and is the oldest continuously operating manufacturer in North America. It is the only U.S....

 Company, United Electric Light & Power Company, Western Union

Western Union

The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado. Up until 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S...

 & Telegraph Company; and a trustee of John Sterling.

Biography

He was the son of William Rockefeller

William Rockefeller

William Avery Rockefeller, Jr. , American financier, was a co-founder with his older brother John D. Rockefeller of the prominent United States Rockefeller family. He was the son of William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. and Eliza Rockefeller.-Youth, education:Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York,...

 and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. He attended Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 from 1897 to 1900, where he was also a member of the 1900 class of Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....

.

He married Isabel Goodrich Stillman, daughter of First National City Bank

Citibank

Citibank, a major international bank, is the consumer banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, later First National City Bank of New York...

 president James Jewett Stillman (now known as Citibank), on April 23, 1901. Their daughter Isabel Stillman (Rockefeller) Lincoln was a bride's maid at the wedding of Dorothy Walker

Dorothy Walker Bush

Dorothy Wear Walker Bush , mother to 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and the grandmother of 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Time on her death wrote that "George Bush was shaped and tempered by his mother's nature." Dorothy Bush raised her five children...

 and Prescott Sheldon Bush.

Children

1. Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln
   Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln
   Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln was born in Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, New York on 23 June 1902. Her father, Percy Avery Rockefeller, was one of the richest financiers and industrialists of his time. Percy was the son of William Rockefeller, who made a fortune from the Standard Oil Co...
   
    (1902–1980)
2. Avery Rockefeller
   Avery Rockefeller
   Avery Rockefeller was the son of Percy Avery Rockefeller, one of the richest financiers of his time.Rockefeller attended Yale University, but on 20 September 1923, he secretly married Anna Griffith Mark , daughter of Clayton Mark , a wealthy steel manufacturer...
   
    (1903–1986)
3. Winifred Rockefeller Emeny
   Winifred Rockefeller Emeny
   Winifred Rockefeller was a daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller, one of the richest financiers and industrialists of his time. Percy was the son of William Rockefeller, who made a fortune from the Standard Oil Co...
   
    (1904–1951)
4. Faith Rockefeller Model
   Faith Rockefeller Model
   Faith Rockefeller Model was a daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller and granddaughter of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller . Model was born and died in the city of Greenwich, Connecticut...
   
    (1909–1960)
5. Gladys Rockefeller Underhill (born 1910)