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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 (born December 19, 1849, West Overton, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died December 2, 1919, New York City) was a U.S. industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist who helped build the world’s largest coke and steel operations.
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.
Dec 3, 2020 · 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.
Henry Clay Frick: “The Man” was a Businessman. Reviewed by R. Jay Gangewere. This long-awaited book on Henry Clay Frick is less a traditional biography about The Man (as Carnegie called him) than an overview of the industrial history of coke, iron and steel in the half century between 1870 and 1920.
Henry Clay Frick’s involvement in the steel industry began in 1871 when he invested in coking fields and built coke ovens. He formed H.C. Frick Coke Company, which produced a majority of the coke used by Pittsburgh’s iron and steel industries.
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