DEATH OF STEEL MAGNATE
AND FINANCIER, AFTER A
MOST REMARKABLE CAREER
NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (by Associated
Press).—Henry Clay Frick, the re
' tired steel manufacturer, died here
today.
A Remarkable Career
The career of Henry Clay Frick has
formed one of the most fascinating
t^bapters in the romance of industry
in the United States. At ten, a boy on
* a farm in a family of only ordinary
means, he was, at 60, a man of so
many millions that his fortune, like
those of Carnegie and Rockefeller,
was largely a matter of guesswork,
even to himself. It has been said
that he was worth more than $100,
000,000, perhaps as much as $200,
000,000.
Mr. Frick built up the greatest
coke business in the world, and ac
quired such vast interests in steel
that he was also one of the principal
magnates in that industry, and in
rounding out his career he became
known as one of the world’s greatest
collectors of master paintings.
Boyhood and Youth
Mr. Frick was born December 19,
1849, at West Overton, Pa. This vil
lage was named after the maternal
grandfather of Mr. Frick, Abram Over
holt, whose original family name was
Oberholtzer, and who settled in West
ern Pennsylvania when that region
was regarded as the frontier of civ
ilization: As the settlements along
• the Allegheny and Monongahela grew
and Pittsburgh emerged from its
swaddling clothes, Mr. Overholt be
came the leading miller and distiller
of Western Pennsylvania. His daugh
ter, Elizabeth, married John W. Frick,
a young man of Swiss ancestry,' who
at that time was working as an en
gineer in the Overholt distillery. It
was from this union that the future
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capitalist was born. The father at
tempted farming, but did not make a
remarkable success of it, and as a re
suit young Henry Clay Frick was prac
tically adopted into the Overholt fam
ily when he was about twelve years
old. He received a good basic school
ing. but there was nothing in his boy
hood to indicate the remarkable abil
ity which characterized his later life,
except his eagerness to get into busi
ness. For a time he was bookkeeper
in his grandfather’s distillery, and
from this position he went to Morgan
& Co., coke dealers, and at about 21
years of age he appeared in Pitts
burgh as their agent. The coke in
dustry was in its infancy. The iron
masters of Pittsburgh were just be
ginning to appreciate the value of
coke for their furnaces. Young Frick
had an opportunity to acquire a lim
ited interest in a plant near Broad
ford, and out of the profits of this he
acquired other holdings.. He later
joined a company to build a railroad
I to penetrate the Connelsville coke re
gion, and in 1871, the year this road
was opened, Mr. Frick organized the
corporation of Frick & Co., which
bought coal land and coke ovens in
the Connelsville region. That was
the basis of the Frick fortune. The
undivided attention of the rising finan
cier was given to coke until 1882.
Influential Connections
In the midst of this period there
came the panic of 1873 and the finan
cial crash of many ambitious oper
ators. At the sheriff’s sale Mr. Frick
purchased additional tracts of coal
land and ovens, and a few years later
the Mellons, powerful Pittsburgh
bankers, became interested in the ex
panding enterprise of the young oper
ator.
The Carnegies, then developing
their great steel business in Pitts
burgh, had taken large holdings in the
Frick coke company, and in 1882 Mr.
Frick found the Carnegie brothers
willing to admit him as a member of
their firm in consideration of his giv
ing them further interests in his coke
business. It was thus that Mr. Frick
became also a great manufacturer of
steel.
The Homestead Strike
Through the Homestead strike of
1892 Mr. Frick came into national
prominence. Differences had arisen
between the Carnegie Steel Company
and its employes over a wage scale,
culminating in a strike involving thou
sands of men; the calling out of the
national guard and the proclamation
of martial law. It was at this period,
July 22, 1892, that Alexander Berk
man, a New York anarchist, tried to
assassinate Mr. Frick. Berkman
walked into Frick’s office, drew a re
volver and fired, the bullet lodging in
Mr. Frick’s neck. Mr. Frick was shot
a second time and then he grappled
with Berkman. During the encounter
Mr. Frick was stabbed three times,
but he downed his assailant and held
him until the police arrived. Berk
man was tried and sent to the West
ern penitentiary in Pittsburgh for
twenty-one years.
Thirteen days after the attack Mr.
Frick walked to his office unattended
and resumed the direction of the
great strike, which continued until
November 21 of that year. Mr. Frick
was unmoved by the violence, the
protests of the public, or the distress
of the families of the strikers. He
won, and never begrudged the price of
victory.
Great Business Sagacity
When Mr. Frick entered the Car
negie Steel Company he decided to
make it the most powerful concern
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