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     • American financier and philanthropist Andrew W. Mellon was perhaps best known for donating money to build and art to fill the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He also served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s.
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   What did mellon do for a living?

   • Mellon held stakes in steel, plate, glass, paint, and iron ore. Mellon men sat directly on the boards of railway lines such as the Northwestern, the Omaha, the Norfolk and Western, and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. American Locomotive and Standard Steel Car, which both made cars for railroads, were Mellon companies.

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   What did Andrew Mellon do?

   • Crescent Oil Company was another Mellon family company, which processed crude and refined oil in southwestern Pennsylvania. Andrew Mellon incorporated something called the "Mellon System;" this was controlling every aspect of a product from raw material, refining and production, and eventually the finished product and sale of that product.

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   Where can I find a biography of Andrew Mellon?

   • The following is all taken from: David Cannadine, Mellon: An American Life, (New York: Vintage Books, 2008); from the brief David Cannadine biography of Andrew Mellon found on the Mellon Foundation website at www.mellon.org; and, briefly, from Martha Frick Symington Sanger. Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait. (New York: Abbeville Press, 1998.)

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   Why did Mellon become famous?

   • At first little known, the Republican-dominated press gradually gave Mellon more and more credit for the boom times, especially after the horrific economic experience of 1919–1920. Millions of Americans soon revered him. He was commonly known as the best secretary of the treasury “since Alexander Hamilton.”

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   Andrew William Mellon was born on March 24, 1855, to Judge Thomas and Sarah Jane (Negley) Mellon; their sixth child, but only the fourth to survive infancy. The Negley family was one of the founding families of Pittsburgh. In later years, at the suggestion of his brother Dick, Thomas Mellon started Idlewild Park, then a picnic resort for ...

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   Oct 14, 2019 · Andrew, the smartest of the boys, inherited his father’s empire in his twenties. For most of his life, he had a solitary routine. Rising early, he took the train to work, spent the day at the bank, lunched at a private club, and then brought documents home at night for study, “after a silent supper with his parents.”.

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   Nov 12, 2006 · Cannadine dedicates his book to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the philanthropic body that drew on the ample resources of Ailsa and Paul, Mellon’s children, for whom he showed a sincere and ...

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   978-0307386793. Publisher. Vintage. A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.

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   Andrew Mellon Biography. Andrew Mellon. financier, public official, philanthropist. Born: 3/24/1855. Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa. Having been born into a wealthy banking family, Mellon used the experience he gained in running his father's banking business to help him anticipate growth industries and begin successful enterprises in them.

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   Nov 1, 2006 · Andrew W. Mellon could not have created the National Gallery of Art if he did not have lots of pictures, and he wouldn’t have had lots of pictures if he did not have a great deal of money to ...

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   Mellon National Bank1882–1921. Industry: Finance. Era: pre-1900. Mellon took over his family’s small private bank and turned it into one of the largest sources of venture capital in American history. Mellon played a substantial role in supplying capital for expanding industries, especially steel and oil. He was the driving force behind ...