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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 was born in 1849 and gained his wealth through the coke and steel industries. [ 129 ] [ 130 ] Frick cofounded the Carnegie Steel Company with Andrew Carnegie [ 129 ] [ 131 ] and also became an avid art collector.
It is located at the Henry Clay Frick House, a Beaux-Arts mansion designed for Henry Clay Frick. The Frick also houses the Frick Art Research Library, an art history research center established by Frick's daughter Helen Clay Frick in 1920, which contains sales catalogs, books, periodicals, and photographs.
Helen Clay Frick (September 2, 1888 – November 9, 1984) [1] was an American philanthropist and art collector. She was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , the third child of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs (1859–1931).
Andrew Carnegie placed industrialist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881. Frick resolved to break the union at Homestead. "The mills have never been able to turn out the product they should, owing to being held back by the Amalgamated men," he complained in a letter to Carnegie.
The Frick Pittsburgh is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and formed around the Frick family's nineteenth-century residence known as "Clayton". It focuses on the interpretation of the life and times of Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), industrialist and art collector.
This relationship progressed with the result in Frick being the major supplier of coke to the new company. [1] Thomas Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie's brother died in 1886 and in 1889 Frick began to manage a portion of the company. [2] Frick also bought company shares. Frick advanced and was promoted to chairman of the company.
Henry Clay Frick II was born on October 18, 1919 in New York City, the son of paleontologist Childs Frick (1883–1965) and his wife, Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953), and a grandson of his namesake, the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919).