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  2. Standard Oil - Wikipedia

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    Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was born on January 2, 1882, when a group of 41 investors signed the Standard Oil ...

  3. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 173 F. 177 ( C.C.E.D. Mo. 1909) The Standard Oil Company conspired to restrain the trade and commerce in petroleum, and to monopolize the commerce in petroleum, in violation of the Sherman Act, and was split into many smaller companies. Several individuals, including John D. Rockefeller, were fined.

  4. Successors of Standard Oil - Wikipedia

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    ExxonMobil is mostly composed of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard) and the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). The two companies partnered on a semi-frequent basis during their infancy before pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with Jersey Standard buying Texas-based Humble Oil and Socony merging with Standard descendant Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum.

  5. History of ExxonMobil - Wikipedia

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    By 1911, with public outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States that Standard Oil must be dissolved and split into 34 companies, with two of them becoming Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard for short) and Standard Oil of New York (Socony for short ...

  6. ExxonMobil - Wikipedia

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    ExxonMobil Corporation [a] ( / ˌɛksɒnˈmoʊbəl / EKS-on-MOH-bəl; commonly shortened to Exxon [5] [6] [7]) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil. The company, which took its present name in 1999 per the merger of Exxon and Mobil, is vertically integrated ...

  7. Esso - Wikipedia

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    Esso. Esso ( / ˈɛsoʊ /) is a trading name for ExxonMobil. Originally, the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. [1] The company adopted the name "Esso" (the phonetic pronunciation of Standard Oil's initials, ' S ' and ' O '), [2] to which the ...

  8. Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of the refinery Bayonne, New Jersey - the Tidewater Oil Co. refinery complex in 1890 Frank Tannenbaum July 22, 1915 July 22, 1915. The Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 were labor actions of refinery workers in Bayonne, New Jersey, mostly Polish-Americans who struck Standard Oil of New Jersey and Tidewater Petroleum plants on Constable Hook beginning in mid-July 1915.

  9. American Standard Brands - Wikipedia

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    Website. americanstandard-us .com. American Standard Brands is a North American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, based in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. It is principally owned by the Lixil Group, with Bain Capital Partners holding a minority stake. The company was formed as American Standard Americas from the North American ...