E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . he close co-operation thatMakes them win the aint the individual, nor theArmy as a whole,But the everlastin teamworkOf every bloomin soul. Dnccnibci- 1 anri lill. l!li:t [•] N 0 I N K i: R I \ i; \ N I) M I N I N i; Journal .Mir, Henry Clay Frick Noted Financier Was One of the Most Prominent Figures in the Development of the American Steel Industry—Secured Control of G^al Land and Developed Coke Production—Early Associate of Carnegie TN THE death of Heniy Clay Frick, on Dec. 2. atJ- the age of seventy, America has lost anotherman who figured large
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . he close co-operation thatMakes them win the aint the individual, nor theArmy as a whole,But the everlastin teamworkOf every bloomin soul. Dnccnibci- 1 anri lill. l!li:t [•] N 0 I N K i: R I \ i; \ N I) M I N I N i; Journal .Mir, Henry Clay Frick Noted Financier Was One of the Most Prominent Figures in the Development of the American Steel Industry—Secured Control of G^al Land and Developed Coke Production—Early Associate of Carnegie TN THE death of Heniy Clay Frick, on Dec. 2. atJ- the age of seventy, America has lost anotherman who figured largely in the development of tliecountrys steel industry. Although not as wellknown to the public in recent years as Carnegie, M ?.Frick took an equally active part in the industriallife of the country. He was averse to publicity, andiiad not it been for events connected with the Home-stead strike in 1892, he might have remained almostunknown to most of the men in his was a giant of big business, and played the game. Copyright by ^ach BrothersHENRY CLAY FRICK on an equal footing with men like Carnegie, Morgan,and Schwab. Starting life a poor farmer boy, the story of hisrapid accumulation of wealth is one of thoseromances of American business with which themagagine-reading public has become familiar. Hewas born Dec. 19, 1849, and until he was sixteendivided his time between school, his fathers farm,and the Overholt distillery, owned by his grand-father, where he kept the books. He attended Otter-bein University for one year, leaving to go into thecoke business. Fricks home was in the center of the coke-pro-ducing district, and he realized the importance of tills fuel in its relation to the manufacture oi business sagacity led him to secure control ofas much coal land and as many coke ovens as pos-sible, and in this he was assisted materially by thepanic of 1873, which threw many valuable holdingson the market. At that time coke could be boughtat 90c.
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