William Goodsell Rockefeller

William Goodsell Rockefeller (May 21, 1870 – November 30, 1922) was an American businessman who was treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New York and a member of the Rockefeller family.

Rockefeller attended Yale University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and graduated in 1892. Rockefeller's father had become a large shareholder of the National City Bank and his alliance with the Stillman family was sealed by the marriage of his two sons with two Stillman daughters. Rockefeller's brother, Percy Avery Rockefeller, married Elsie's sister, Isabel Goodrich Stillman.

William Avery Rockefeller III (1896–1973), who married Florence Lincoln (1897–1998), sister of Frederic W. Lincoln IV, in 1918. Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (1899–1983), who married Helen Gratz, brother-in-law of Edward H. Watson. James Stillman Rockefeller (1902–2004), who married Nancy Carnegie (1900–1994), a grandniece of Andrew Carnegie. John Sterling Rockefeller (1904–1988), who married Paula Watjen. Almira Geraldine Rockefeller (1907–1997), who married M. Roy Jackson in 1929. After his death in 1944, she remarried in 1945 to Samuel Weston Scott.

Rockefeller was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Union League Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the University Club. He was interred in the vault of the William Rockefeller Mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.