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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
Henry Clay Frick. Henry Clay Frick was born, from relatively modest Mennonite stock, on December 19, 1849, in West Overton, a rural community in southwestern Pennsylvania. The second child of an immigrant farmer who married the daughter of a flour merchant and whisky distiller, Frick worked as a salesman in one of Pittsburgh's most prominent ...
In response to declining prices of rolled-steel productis in the early 1890s, Henry Clay Frick, general manager of the Homestead plant owned by Andrew Carnegie, took a series of bold but...
"Henry Clay Frick was born December 19, 1848 [should be 1849] in West Overton, Pa., a fourth generation American of wealthy parentage. The second of six children, he was named for the Whig leader and Kentucky Senator Henry Clay.
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Jun 11, 2018 · American industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) played leading roles in expanding the Carnegie Steel Company into the largest such enterprise in the world and in forming the United States Steel Company.
A new biography of one of these men, Henry Clay Frick, is an extraordinarily powerful brief for this assertion. Written by his great-granddaughter Martha Frick Symington Sanger and called Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait (Abbeville Press), it is one of the handsomest examples of bookmaking I have seen in some time.
The Frick was founded by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), who left his art collection and Gilded Age residence for the enjoyment of the public. The Frick Art Reference Library, a leading art history research center, was founded by Henry Clay Frick’s daughter, Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), more than a century ago.
Oct 8, 2022 · Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was a Pennsylvania-born industrialist. Despite coming from an undistinguished background, he rose to become a millionaire in coke production (an ingredient needed for metallurgy), steel, and railroads.
Henry Clay Frick as a Collector of Drawings. December 14, 1999 to January 30, 2000. Marking the 150th Anniversary of the birthday of founder Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), this small exhibition drew attention to a lesser-known aspect of the broad collecting interests of the museum's founder. Ten drawings that Mr. Frick acquired between 1913 ...
According to family friend and contemporary biographer George Harvey, Henry Clay Frick was first approached about running as a Republican for public office in an 1880 US congressional race. What Frick thought about the offer isn’t known.
