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Mellon also used his economic power to push companies and landowners to comply with new regulations. In 1955 a redevelopment plan and federal funding were approved to coincide with the construction of a new Civic Arena (1961–2010). The URA, with the support of R. K. Mellon, displaced 8,000 residents, businesses and churches.
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Richard Beatty Mellon (March 19, 1858 – December 1, 1933), sometimes R.B., was a banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon .
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After his death in 1935, [13] she married Richard King Mellon, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, in 1936. [14] After his death in 1970, she married the director of the National Stud, Peter Eustace Burrell, CBE, a son of Sir Merrik Burrell, 7th Baronet. [15] He was a member of the Union League Club and the University Club of New ...
They had four children: Matthew Taylor Mellon I, PhD (1897-1992), who was an American Studies professor at the University of Freiburg from 1928 to 1939; [8] [9] Rachel Mellon Walton (1899-2006), a philanthropist who became the longest serving board member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; [10] [11] [12] Margaret Mellon Hitchcock (1901-1998 ...
The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential family originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., and its vicinity.. In addition to their ownership of Mellon Bank as well as founding both Kennywood Park and Idlewild Park, they were long known for their de facto control of Gulf Oil, Alcoa, Koppers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Reviewnewspaper, Westinghouse, and major influence in H.J. Heinz ...
Richard Mellon Scaife (/ s k eɪ f /; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.