David Rockefeller’s Sixth Heart Transplant Successful at Age 99
David Rockefeller (born June 12, 1915) is an American
banker and philanthropist who served as chairman and
chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He is
the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family and
family patriarch since July 2004. Rockefeller is also
the only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild
of John D. Rockefeller and Laura Spelman Rockefeller
David Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York,
and grew up in a nine-story house at 10 West 54th Street,
then the largest private residence in the city. He is the
youngest of six children born to financier John Davison
Rockefeller Jr. and socialite Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich.
John Jr. was the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John
Davison Rockefeller Sr. and schoolteacher Laura Celestia
"Cettie" Spelman. Abby was a daughter of Senator Nelson Wilmarth
Aldrich and Abigail Pearce Truman "Abby" Chapman. David's five
elder siblings were Abby (1903–1976), John III (1906–1978),
Nelson (1908–1979), Laurance (1910–2004), and Winthrop
(1912–1973). The home contained rare, ancient, medieval
and Renaissance treasures collected by his father—with some,
such as the Unicorn Tapestries, held in an adjoining building
at 12 West 54th Street. On the seventh floor was his mother's
private modern art gallery. The house was subsequently donated
by David's father as a site for a sculpture garden that is now
part of the Museum of Modern Art.
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