du Pont family
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The du Pont family (English: /duːˈpɒnt/)[1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817). It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it expanded its wealth through the chemical industry and the automotive industry,[2][3] with substantial interests in the DuPont company, General Motors, and various other corporations.
Several former du Pont family estates are open to the public as museums, gardens or parks, such as
The family's first American estate, Eleutherian Mills, located at Hagley Museum and Library, was preserved and restored by Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield. She also helped to establish the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1949. In recent years, the family has continued to be known for its association with political and business ventures, as well as philanthropic causes.
Two family members were the subjects of well-publicized criminal cases.
As of 2016, the family fortune was estimated at $14.3 billion, spread across more than 3,500 living relatives.[3]
History
In 1802, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont established a
Over time, the Du Pont company grew into the largest black powder manufacturing firm in the world. The family remained in control of the company up through the 1960s,[7] and family trusts still own a substantial amount of the company's stock. This and other companies run by the du Pont family employed up to 10 percent of Delaware's population at its peak.[8] During the 19th century, the Du Pont family maintained their family wealth by carefully arranged marriages between cousins[9] which, at the time, was the norm for many families.
The family played a large part in politics during the 18th and 19th centuries and assisted in negotiations for the
The family has also played an important role in historic preservation and land conservation, including helping to found the
Beginning with
Spelling of the name
The stylings "du Pont" and "Du Pont" are most prevalent for the family name in published, copy-edited writings. In many publications, the styling is "du Pont" when quoting an individual's full name and "Du Pont" when speaking of the family as a whole, although some individual Du Ponts have chosen to style it differently, such as
French orthographic tradition for the styling of de (or its inflected forms) as a surname particle, in either nobiliary or non-nobiliary form, is discussed at Nobiliary particle § France. In non-nobiliary form, the prevalent French styling of the name is "Dupont", and thus the choice by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to begin styling himself so during the monarchical era hints at social ambition. But the influence of French orthography and prerevolutionary class structure on how English orthography styles surnames today is outweighed by how families and individuals so named style themselves.
Alphabetical list of selected descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Below is an alphabetical listing of selected members of the family.
- Alexis Felix du Pont (1879–1948)
- Alexis Felix du Pont Jr. (1905–1996)
- Alexis Irénée du Pont (1816–1857)
- Alexis Irénée du Pont Jr. (1843–1904)
- Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard (1918–1985)
- Alfred Irénée du Pont (1864–1935)
- Alfred Victor Philadelphe du Pont (1798–1856)
- Alice Frances du Pont (1912–2002)
- Amy Elizabeth du Pont (1875–1962)
- Benjamin Franklin du Pont (born 1964)
- Charles Irénée du Pont (1797–1869)
- Coleman Dupont Donaldson (1922–2009)
- Éleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834)
- Esther D. du Pont (1908–1984)
- Ethel du Pont (1916–1965)
- Éleuthère Paul du Pont (1887–1950)
- Eugene du Pont (1840–1902)
- Francis Gurney du Pont (1850–1904)
- Francis Irénée du Pont (1873–1942)
- Francis Victor du Pont (1894–1962)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt III (born 1938)
- George Alexis Weymouth (1936–2016)
- Harry Alfred Rée (1914–1991)
- Henry du Pont (1812–1889)
- Henry Algernon du Pont (1838–1926)
- Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969)
- Hugh Rodney Sharp Jr. (1909–1990)
- Jane du Pont Lunger (1914–2001)
- John Éleuthère du Pont (1938–2010)
- Irénée du Pont (1876–1963)
- Lammot du Pont I (1831–1884)
- Lammot du Pont II (1880–1952)
- Lammot du Pont Copeland (1905–1983)
- Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter (1907–1976)
- Louise Evelina du Pont Crowninshield (1877–1958)
- Lydia Chichester du Pont (1907–1958)
- Marion duPont Scott (1894–1983)
- Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817)
- Pierre S. du Pont (1870–1954)
- Pierre S. "Pete" du Pont IV (1935–2021)
- Richard Chichester du Pont (1911–1943)
- Robert Brett Lunger (born 1945)
- Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter Jr. (1915–1980)
- Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter III (1940-2021)
- Ruth Ellen du Pont (1922–2014)
- Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803–1865)
- Thomas Coleman du Pont (1863–1930)
- Victor Marie du Pont (1767–1827)
- Victorine du Pont Bauduy (1792–1861)
- Victorine du Pont Homsey (1900–1998)
- William du Pont (1855–1928)
- William du Pont Jr. (1896–1965)
- Zara DuPont (1869–1946)
Family tree
The following list is not a complete genealogy, but is ordered by descent to show the familial relationships between members of the du Pont family throughout history.
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Family network
Associates
The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the du Pont family.
- Edward Ball
- Thomas F. Bayard Jr.
- Joe Biden[16]
- Jacques Antoine Bidermann
- Lucius M. Boomer
- Donaldson Brown
- C. Douglass Buck
- Wallace Carothers
- R. R. M. Carpenter
- Walter S. Carpenter Jr.
- Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.
- Uma Chowdhry
- Marian Cruger Coffin
- Thomas M. Connelly
- William D. Denney
- Herbert S. Eleuterio
- Linda Fisher
- Crawford Greenewalt
- Charles O. Holliday
- Edward G. Jefferson
- Ellen J. Kullman
- James Lynah
- James P. Mills
- Hugh M. Morris[17]
- William Dale Phillips
- John J. Raskob
- Donald P. Ross
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
- Willard Saulsbury Jr.
- Irving S. Shapiro
- William H. Shaw
- Alfred Sloan
- Newton Steers
Businesses
The following is a list of companies in which the du Pont family held a controlling or otherwise substantial interest.
- Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
- Central Coal and Iron Company
- Chartline Capital Partners[18]
- Delaware Trust Company[19]
- DuPont de Nemours, Inc.[20]
- The Equitable Life Assurance Society[21]
- Fair Hill Training Center
- Florida East Coast Railway
- Florida National Bank
- General Motors[22][20]
- Hercules Powder Company
- Hickory Tree Farm & Stable[23]
- Hotel McAlpin
- Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company[24]
- Nemours Trading Corporation[25]
- National Bank of Detroit[26][27][28]
- The News Journal
- North American Aviation
- Philadelphia Phillies
- Piasecki Helicopter Corporation[29]
- Remington Arms Company[30][31]
- St. Joe Company
- US Airways[32][33]
- United States Rubber Company
- Victorine & Samuel Homsey
- Wilmington Trust[34]
- yet2.com
Philanthropy & nonprofit organizations
- Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust
- American Liberty League
- Camp Rodney (Boy Scouts of America)[35]
- Chichester Dupont Foundation[36]
- Delaware Museum of Natural History
- DuPont-MIT Alliance[37]
- Jessie Ball duPont Fund
- Kennett High School[38]
- Longwood Foundation[39]
- Long Wharf Theatre
- Lynah Rink
- Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
- Nemours Foundation
- New Bolton Center
- Phi Kappa Sigma
- Population Action International
- Ruth Wales du Pont Sanctuary[40]
- Springfield Foundation, Inc.[41]
- St. Andrew's School
- Team Foxcatcher[42]
- Thouron Scholars Program
- Unidel Foundation[43]
- U.S. Route 113
- Welfare Foundation, Inc.
- Zip Code Wilmington[44]
Buildings, estates and historic landmarks
- Bellevue State Park (Delaware)
- Brandywine Creek State Park
- Delaware Park Racetrack
- DuPont Building
- DuPont-Guest Estate
- DuPont Village Historic District
- Epping Forest
- Fairlee Manor Camp House
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Dupont historic sites along Delaware Rte. 141
- Eleutherian Mills
- Empire State Building
- Gibraltar (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Longwood Gardens
- Louviers (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Lower Louviers and Chicken Alley
- Montpelier
- Mt. Cuba Center
- Nemours Mansion and Gardens
- Stockton-Montmorency
- Strand Millas and Rock Spring
- Owl's Nest Country Place
- Wilmington Trust Company Bank
- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
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- ^ "Friends of Goodstay Gardens". Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
- ^ Denise Magnani, The Winterthur Garden: Henry Francis du Pont's Romance with the Land (Wilmington: Harry N. Abrams and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1995).
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The names of fashionable families who were already Episcopalian, like the Morgans, or those, like the Fricks, who now became so, goes on interminably: Aldrich, Astor, Biddle, Booth, Brown, Du Pont, Firestone, Ford, Gardner, Mellon, Morgan, Procter, the Vanderbilt, Whitney. Episcopalians branches of the Baptist Rockefellers and Jewish Guggenheims even appeared on these family trees.
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Although he was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church in order to secure a "civil status,"he was later baptized a Huguenot.
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Members of the DuPont family owned directly or indirectly 43.9 percent of the voting stock of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company. If this block of stock, by far the largest extant, acted as a unit it would give the DuPont family undisputed control of the company. The E.I. Dupont de Nemours Company owned 23 percent of the common stock of General Motors Corporation, by far the largest block of stock extant, which gave DuPont a safe working control of General Motors.
- ^ "T.C. DU PONT BUYS EQUITABLE LIFE". The New York Times. June 1, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 353 U.S. 586, 588-589 (Supreme Court 1957) ("The complaint alleged a violation of § 7 of the [Clayton] Act resulting from the purchase by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1917-1919 of a 23% stock interest in General Motors Corporation...The primary issue is whether du Pont's commanding position as General Motors' supplier of automotive finishes and fabrics was achieved on competitive merit alone, or because its acquisition of the General Motors' stock, and the consequent close intercompany relationship, led to the insulation of most of the General Motors' market from free competition, with the resultant likelihood, at the time of suit, of the creation of a monopoly of a line of commerce.").
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