H. Clay Frick
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Henry Clay Frick
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December 19, 1849 West Overton, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania |
| Died | December 2, 1919 (aged 69) New York City, New York |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Otterbein University (did not graduate) |
| Occupation | Industrialist and art collector |
| Known for | Strikebreaking, Frick Collection, Johnstown Flood |
| Spouse(s) | Adelaide Childs Frick (1859-1931) |
| Children | Childs Frick, Martha Frick, Helen Clay Frick, Henry Clay Frick Jr. |
| Parent(s) | John Wilson Frick, Elizabeth Overholt |
| Relatives | Abraham Overholt |
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 Presentation by Martha Frick Sanger on Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, October 29, 1998, C-SPAN
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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, union-buster, 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. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company, and owned extensive real estate holdings in Pittsburgh and throughout the state of Pennsylvania. He later built the historic neoclassical Frick Mansion (now a landmark building in Manhattan), and upon his death donated his extensive collection of old master paintings and fine furniture to create the celebrated Frick Collection and art museum.
Frick was born in West Overton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States, a grandson of Abraham Overholt, the owner of the prosperous Overholt Whiskey distillery (see Old Overholt). Frick's father, John W. Frick, was unsuccessful in business pursuits. Henry Clay Frick attended Otterbein College for one year, but did not graduate. In 1871, at 21 years old, Frick joined two cousins and a friend in a small partnership, using a beehive oven to turn coal into coke for use in steel manufacturing, and vowed to be a millionaire by the age of thirty. The company was called Frick Coke Company.
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