Henry Clay Frick - Wikipedia
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 | Biography, Mansion, & Art Collection
2024年12月15日 · Henry Clay Frick (born December 19, 1849, West Overton, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died December 2, 1919, New York City) was a U.S. industrialist, art collector, and philanthropist who helped build the world’s largest coke and steel operations.
Henry Clay Frick | The Frick Collection
Henry Clay Frick was born, from relatively modest Mennonite stock, on December 19, 1849, in West Overton, a rural community in southwestern Pennsylvania. The second child of an immigrant farmer who married the daughter of a flour merchant and whisky distiller, Frick worked as a salesman in one of Pittsburgh's most prominent stores and became ...
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) | American Experience | PBS
In response to declining prices of rolled-steel productis in the early 1890s, Henry Clay Frick, general manager of the Homestead plant owned by Andrew Carnegie, took a series of bold but...
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) - U.S. National Park Service
2024年12月6日 · Henry Clay Frick is probably most infamous for his role in the Homestead Strike. In July of 1892 workers at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company, went on strike because they wanted to organize, something that Frick adamantly opposed.
Henry Clay Frick - Encyclopedia.com
2018年6月11日 · American industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) played leading roles in expanding the Carnegie Steel Company into the largest such enterprise in the world and in forming the United States Steel Company.
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
Born in southwestern Pennsylvania, Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art collector.
History | The Frick Collection
The Frick was founded by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), who left his art collection and Gilded Age residence for the enjoyment of the public. The Frick Art Research Library, a leading art history research center, was founded by Henry Clay Frick’s daughter, Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), more than a century ago.
Henry Clay Frick - Pennsylvania State University
Henry Clay Frick attended Westmoreland College and Otterbein College. He created H.C. Frick Coke Company which began in the Connellsville region of Pennsylvania. He eventually became partners with Andrew Carnegie, a wealthy steel company owner.
Henry Clay Frick and The Frick Collection - CODART
Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919; fig. 1), a pioneer in the Pittsburgh coke and steel industries and a successful financier, amassed one of the most magnificent collections of Old Master paintings of America’s Gilded Age.