Childs Frick
Childs Frick | |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States | |
Died | May 8, 1965 Roslyn Harbor, New York, United States | (aged 82)
Burial place | Homewood Cemetery Pittsburgh |
Nationality | American |
Spouse |
Frances Shoemaker Dixon
(m. 1913; died 1953) |
Children | 4, including Henry II |
Parent |
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Family | Helen Clay Frick |
Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory. He also made many expeditions to the American West, and his efforts helped to shape an understanding of the evolution of North American camels. By employing many field workers, Frick accumulated over 200,000 fossil mammals, which later were donated to the Museum.
Biography
Frick was born in
In 1913, Frick married Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953) of
Henry Clay Frick famously played favorites with his two surviving children, Childs and Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984). After the reading of their father's will, which favored Helen, the two siblings were estranged for the rest of their lives.
Childs Frick died of a heart attack at age 81 in Roslyn. He is interred alongside his wife and parents in the Frick family plot at Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.
In 1969, Frick's Roslyn Harbor estate was purchased by Nassau County for the purpose of conversion into the Nassau County Museum of Art.
References
- ISBN 0-7892-0500-9.
- ISBN 9780822943419.
- Specific
- ^ Bric a Brac Yearbook, Princeton University, 1904.