| Description |
xii, 575 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-547) and index. |
| Contents |
Beginnings in Ulster, the crossing, and the fourth R -- From plowboy to professor -- Choosing the law, shopping for a wife, the Great Fire of 1845 -- The Taub, Winebiddle, and Negley fortunes, or what Thomas Mellon married -- Home life on Negley Lane, raising the Mellon boys -- Years of the law, first encounter with James B. Corey, the Lee case, clash with Colonel Black, Entering the coal business, Judge Thomas Mellon -- The storm over James's enlistment -- Closet philosopher Mellon, his infatuation with Herbert Spencer, views on religion and education -- On capital punishment and the jury system; four hangings; Judges McClure, Sterrett, and Stowe -- Banker and businessman, his Larimer and Caldwell in-laws, the founding of Mellon Brothers and of T. Mellon & Sons, loans to Henry Clay Frick -- The panic of 1873, his finest hour -- The ABCD lawsuits -- Early life of Andrew W. Mellon, his friendship with Henry Clay Frick -- The Mellons build a railroad, leadership of the family passes to Andrew -- The judge's clashes with organized labor: the "great uprising" of 1877, prosecution of David Jones, slander suit against the National Labor Tribune -- A passage to Ireland, "sinking" the island -- The reluctant politician -- Andrew the financier, his father's influence -- The judge writes his memoirs, how to defeat poverty -- The short life and long death of George Mellon, odyssey of the Glen Eyre, Richard is given half of T. Mellon & Sons -- The judge's relations with Frick and Carnegie -- False spring at Kansas City, destitute of the fortune -- The inclines abandoned, the "boodlers" routed, Judge Mellon sued for slander -- Selwyn and George "return" -- The long twilight -- In the judge's shadow: an epilogue. |
| Summary |
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and he laid the foundation for a family that would contribute considerably to the city's growth and welfare for much of the next hundred years, becoming one of the world's most recognizable names in industry, innovation, and philanthropy. Through his in-depth examination of the extensive Mellon family archives, in The Judge James Mellon has fashioned an incisive portrait of the elder Mellon that presents the man in full. --from publisher description |
| Subject |
Mellon, Thomas, 1813-1908.
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Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
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Mellon family.
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| ISBN |
9780300167146 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300167148 cloth alkaline paper |
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