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Thomas Mellon: Alumnus Who Founded a Dynasty. Inspired by The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas A. Mellon decided in 1834 to enroll at the Western University of Pennsylvania rather than try to eke out a living on his family’s farm. Only 43 other students were studying at “WUP” (later renamed the University of Pittsburgh) at that ...
Thomas Mellon and His Times. Thomas Mellon. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 535 pages. In 1885, at the age of seventy-two and "in the evening of life," Thomas Mellon published his autobiography in a limited edition exclusively for his family. He was a distinguished and highly successful Pittsburgh entrepreneur ...
31. Juli 2020 · Thomas was admitted to the bar in 1838 and immediately opened his law firm. In 1859, he was appointed a judge. While working, he invested his savings in real estate around Pittsburg which was then undergoing fast industrialization. When he retired in 1869, he established a bank which he named T. Mellon and Sons.
13. Jan. 2020 · xii, 575 p. : 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [539]-547) and index 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 ...
8. Juli 2014 · Most of America's Gilded Age fortunes have dissipated over time. Yet two centuries after Thomas Mellon arrived in America with his family, the Mellons are worth $12 billion.
22. Okt. 2018 · Thomas Mellon emigrated as a five-year-old child from Camp Hill, Lower Castletown, near Omagh, Co Tyrone, in 1818. In doing so, his parents, Andrew and Rebecca Mellon, were following in the ...
Through his in-depth examination of the extensive Mellon family archives, in The Judge James Mellon--a direct descendent of Thomas Mellon--has fashioned an incisive portrait of the elder Mellon that presents the man in full. Offering a singular and insightful characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed the patriarch's work and life, James Mellon captures the judge's ...
