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The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The family includes Andrew Mellon , one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries , along with famous members in the judicial, banking, financial, business, and political professions.
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 King Mellon (June 19, 1899 – June 3, 1970), [1] commonly known as R.K., was an American financier, general, and philanthropist from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and part of the Mellon family. Biography
In 1939, William L. Mellon Sr. established The W. L. and May T. Mellon Foundation. Ten years later, in 1949, Mellon donated six million dollars to establish the graduate school of industrial administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, [29] which is today the David A. Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon ...
Mellon Trust, a charitable trust founded by Andrew W. Mellon; Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, a U.S. government-owned auditorium in Washington, D.C.'s Federal Triangle; Carnegie Mellon University, leading university in Pittsburgh; Mellon Institute, research institute founded by the Mellon family, merged to become Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew William Mellon (/ ˈ m ɛ l ə n /; March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. The son of Mellon family patriarch Thomas Mellon, he established a vast business
Timothy Mellon (born July 22, 1942) is an American businessman, the grandson of Andrew Mellon, and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. [1] As of June 2024, Forbes estimated the Mellon family's net worth at $14.1 billion. [ 2 ]
The original family house now forms the centrepiece of the Ulster American Folk Park Museum. His family had come into Ireland from Scotland and Holland around the middle of the seventeenth century. [1] In 1816, his grandfather, Archibald Mellon, emigrated to the United States, settling in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Andrew and his family ...