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My great grandmother was Katherine Angell... she founded the Culinary Institute of America and was the heart and soul of Yale university for some 35 years as wife of James Roland Angell, -Yale's most beloved college president.
My family summered in a place called Seal Harbor... there my mother and uncles played with the Rockefeller kids and came to know quite well the Rockefeller family. Story has it that John D proposed to my great grandmother, she had 8 kids at the time mind you!

Our summer houses were next to eachother in that very private world of Seal Harbor... I never met any of the Rockefellers... I did however see the christmas cards and birthday cards that they would send... I was always amazed at the quntity of people whom my "grannie" had touched and known. I miss her... and though I never met Laurence Rockefeller... I know what type of person he was by what my great grandmother told me... I will miss him as I do her, for they are from a time and era which has long gone by. Damon Vickers

Laurance S. Rockefeller, a billionaire philanthropist who was well-regarded as a trailblazer of modern venture capitalism, died in his sleep Sunday at the age of 94, the New York Times reported Monday.

The Times, in its obituary of Rockefeller in Monday's edition, said a family spokesman attributed the cause of death to pulmonary fibrosis.

Laurance Rockefeller, the middle brother of the five prominent grandsons of John D. Rockefeller, began his career on Wall Street almost 70 years ago.

In the decades since he first took his seat on the New York Stock Exchange, Rockefeller shrewdly invested in hundreds of start-ups in aviation, electronics and computers, including Intel (INTC: Research, Estimates) and Apple Computer (AAPL: Research, Estimates), the Times said.

However, the more reserved and private of the Rockefeller grandsons also wrestled with the question of how he wanted to use his millions.

As a philanthropist, Rockefeller helped develop national parks in Wyoming, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Vermont, and chaired the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, the Times said.

He also served on dozens of federal, state and local commissions, and advised every president since Eisenhower on issues involving recreation, wilderness preservation and the ecology, the paper said. In 1991, his philanthropic work earned him the Congressional Gold Medal.

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By: Damon Vickers/CNN