Henry clay frick net worth

At the Frick Museum of Art at the Frick Estate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania there was a nice statue in white marble of Mr Henry Clay Frick. It made me want to understand more about what he had done. 

Henry Clay Frick was born in in Overton, Pennsylvania the son of a farmer. He married Elizabeth Overholt whose father was a wealthy man in Whiskey distilling. Mr Frick did not gain anything monetarily from his marriage and he vowed to be richer than his Father-In-Law bygd age He was not content to be poor like his father. Henry Frick began to buy up cheap plots of land with coal on them and proceeded to make coke smelting furnaces. The coke he thought would be useful to the new and progressing Steel industry in Pittsburgh. He bought up more and more nation and made more and more coke furnaces until he formed the Henry C. Frick Coke Company. This caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie and Frick started to produce all the coke for Carnegie&#;s steel company. By the age o

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Henry Clay Frick

American industrialist (–)

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Henry Clay Frick
Born	()December 19, West Overton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	December 2, () (aged&#;69) New York City, U.S.
Resting place	Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	Otterbein University (did not graduate)
Occupation(s)	Industrialist and art collector
Known&#;for	Strikebreaking, Frick Collection, Johnstown Flood
Spouse	Adelaide Childs Frick (&#;)
Children	Childs Frick, Martha Frick, Helen Clay Frick, Henry Clay Frick Jr.

Henry Clay Frick (December 19, – December 2, ) 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. He had extensive real estate hol

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List of richest Americans in history

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