But fate, it turned out, would not oblige. Born on July 8, 1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller soon showed signs of the irrepressible temperament that would be his trademark.

Stewart. Mr Aldrich is a son of the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (oldtime friend and intimate of Mr. Rockefeller Sr.) . . . the younger Aldrich now attacks for his impregnable brother-in-law.

Aldrich Hall was made possible through a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and is named in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich. When it opened in 1953, Aldrich Hall provided much-needed ...