Laurance and Mary Rockefeller, 1965 Born: May 26, 1910
Died: July 11, 2004
Married: Mary French
Children: Laura R. Chasin, Marion R. Weber, Dr. Lucy R. Waletzky, and Larry Rockefeller
Laurance Rockefeller was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and brother to John D., III, Nelson, Winthrop, David and Abby Rockefeller Mauze.
He gave Camp Canaras to St. Lawrence University in 1964.
In 1967, he proposed turning 1.7 million acres of the Adirondack Park into a national park. The plan was not approved.
