Editing David Rockefeller (section)

== Early life ==
{{See also|Rockefeller family}}
Rockefeller was born in [[New York City]], where he grew up in an eight-story house at 10 West [[54th Street]], the tallest private residence ever built in the city at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-lost-j-d-rockefeller-jr-house-no-10.html|title=Daytonian in Manhattan: The Lost J. D. Rockefeller Jr. House – No. 10 W 54th St.|last=Miller|first=Tom|date=March 18, 2013|website=Daytonian in Manhattan|access-date=May 24, 2016}}</ref> Rockefeller was the youngest of six children born to financier [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.|John Davison Rockefeller Jr.]] and socialite [[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller|Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bee |first=Harriet Schoenholz |title=Art in Our Time: A Chronicle of the Museum of Modern Art |last2=Elligott |first2=Michelle |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-87070-001-9 |location=New York, NY |pages=19}}</ref> His father John Jr. was the only son of [[Standard Oil]] co-founder [[John D. Rockefeller|John Davison Rockefeller Sr.]] and schoolteacher [[Laura Spelman Rockefeller|Laura Celestia "Cettie" Spelman]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weir |first=Robert E. |title=Class in America: An Encyclopedia |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-313-06835-5 |location=New York, NY |pages=712}}</ref>

His mother Abby was a daughter of [[List of United States Senators from Rhode Island|Rhode Island U.S. Senator]] [[Nelson W. Aldrich|Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich]] and Abigail Pearce Truman "Abby" Chapman.<ref name=":0" /> David's five elder siblings were [[Abby Rockefeller Mauzé|Abby]], [[John D. Rockefeller III|John III]], [[Nelson Rockefeller|Nelson]], [[Laurance Rockefeller|Laurance]], and [[Winthrop Rockefeller|Winthrop]].

Rockefeller attended the experimental [[New Lincoln School#History|Lincoln School]] at 123rd Street in [[Harlem]]. The school, which was associated with Columbia University, was founded with the help of Rockefeller's educational philanthropy, the General Education Board.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Little |first=Carl |title=The Art of Dahlov Ipcar |publisher=Down East Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-89272-809-1 |pages=122}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Reisch |first=George A. |title=The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds" |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-4384-7367-3 |pages=6}}</ref>

=== Education ===
In 1936, Rockefeller graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' from [[Harvard University]], where he worked as an editor on ''[[The Harvard Crimson]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bethell |first1=John T. |last2=Hunt |first2=Richard M. |last3=Shenton |first3=Robert |date= June 30, 2009|title=Harvard A to Z |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGrBJFRw1GsC&q=david+rockefeller+%22harvard+crimson%22+editor&pg=PA183 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |publisher=Harvard University Press |page=183 |isbn=978-0-674-01288-2 |access-date=January 4, 2018 }}</ref> He also studied economics for a year at Harvard and then a year at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE) under [[Friedrich von Hayek]]. He once dated [[Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington]].<ref name="DavidKathleen">{{cite web|title=The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys Before 1960|url=http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Fitzgeralds-and-the-Kennedys-Before-1960-285973.html|publisher=funtrivia.com|access-date=November 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104210316/http://www.funtrivia.com/en/subtopics/The-Fitzgeralds-and-the-Kennedys-Before-1960-285973.html|archive-date=November 4, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> During his time abroad, Rockefeller briefly worked in the [[London]] branch of what was to become the [[Chase Bank|Chase Manhattan Bank]].

After returning to the United States to complete his graduate studies, he received a Ph.D. in economics from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-david-rockefeller-dies-obit-20170320-story.html|title=David Rockefeller Sr., steward of family fortune and Chase Manhattan Bank, dies at 101|last=Smith|first=Timothy R.|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=November 6, 2017}}</ref>