vels,
John Kendrick Bangs, the humorist, and Hamilton Wright Mabie, editor and
essayist. Carl Schurz (1829-1906) is buried here in the Sleepy Hollow
churchyard. Tarrytown is the trading center of a prosperous agricultural
region; it also has about 100 manufacturing establishments with a large
output. Just north of Kingsland Point (seen at the left, on the east
bank of the river), the seat of William Rockefeller comes into view on
the right, and behind it, among the hills, is the estate of his brother,
John D. Rockefeller.

John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839 at Richford, Tioga Co.,
N.Y., but his family moved to Cleveland while he was still a boy,
and his career was begun there. In 1858 he went into the produce
commission business, and 4 years later his company invested in
an oil refinery. Mr. Rockefeller kept constantly adding to his
influence and possessions in this field until by 1872 the
Standard Oil Co. was organized with him as president, and a
practical control of oil production in America was secured. This
was the first great American "trust." Mr. Rockefeller himself
retired from active business in 1895. While his wealth is
enormous, his benefactions have been on an equal scale,
comprising gifts to the Baptist Church, the founding of
educational institutions and the supporting of those already
existent. Scientific research in medical fields has been a
particular object of his generosity.

Mr. Rockefeller's country estate is called "Kijkuit," meaning
look-out--a name given by the early Dutch settlers to the
beautiful hill on which it stands, and which, rising to a height
of 500 ft., gives a lovely view up and down the Hudson, across to
the distant mountain ridges of N.J., and inland over Westchester
County. The house and gardens are famous not only for their
splendour, but for the priceless works of art they contain. Among
the treasures which have been worked in as details of the
landscape gardening is a fountain which for years has been
considered unrivalled by experts. The huge basin, 20 ft. 8 in. in
diameter, was cut from a single block of granite weighing 50 tons
and brought on the deck of a schooner from an island on the Maine
coast to the dock at Tarrytown. The heroic figure at the top
represents Neptune, and the figures below symbolize the Atlantic,
Pacific and Indian Oceans.

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