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.

2025年2月21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 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 ...

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 was an American business owner, investor, art connoisseur, and anti-unionist. He established the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, served as chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and was instrumental in the creation of the colossal U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.

The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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.

2025年3月15日 · The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure. The showstopper of the Frick Collection renovation is a new ...

2025年3月25日 · On January 27, 1914, the interior designer Elsie de Wolfe sent a brazen business pitch to one of the world’s wealthiest men. “Please don’t forget me!!” she wrote to the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. “I am specially good at detail and the fitting up and the comfort of women’s rooms, the ...

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was an influential American industrialist and key figure in the steel and coke industries during the Gilded Age. Born in West Overton, Pennsylvania, he exhibited a strong entrepreneurial spirit from a young age, inspired by his wealthy grandfather.