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Mellon family
Thomas Mellon
Andrew Mellon
William L. Mellon
Current regionPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Place of originCounty Tyrone, Ireland
Founded
  • 1816
  • 208 years ago
FounderArchibald Mellon
Connected familiesLarimer family
Negley family
Estate(s)Rokeby Stables; Oak Spring

The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential

U.S. Treasury Secretaries, along with famous members in the judicial, banking, financial, business, and political professions. Other notable figures include the prominent banker, R.B. Mellon, and his son R.K. Mellon
, who provided funding and leadership for the first Pittsburgh Renaissance.

History

Thomas Mellon, founder of the Mellon banking dynasty.

The American branch of the Mellon family traces its origins to County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. In 1816, Archibald Mellon emigrated from Northern Ireland to the United States and set up residence in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.[1] Two years later, Archibald was joined by his son, Andrew, and his family.

The family's wealth originated with

H.J. Heinz Company,[citation needed] Newsweek, U.S. Steel, Credit Suisse First Boston and General Motors.[citation needed] The family bank would go on to merge with the Bank of New York to become BNY Mellon
.

The family also founded the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., donating both art works and funds, and is a patron to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, and with art the University of Virginia. Carnegie Mellon University, and its Mellon College of Science, is named in honor of the family, as well as for its founder, Andrew Carnegie, who was a close associate of the Mellons. The family's founding patriarch was Judge

Scotch-Irish farmers from Camp Hill Cottage, in Lower Castletown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and emigrated to what is now the Pittsburgh suburb of north-central Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The family can be divided into four branches: the descendants of Thomas Alexander Mellon Jr, of James Ross Mellon, of Andrew William Mellon, and of Richard Beatty Mellon. The Mellon family are members of the Episcopal Church.[5]

Prominent members

Andrew Mellon, prominent banker and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury throughout the Roaring Twenties.

Members

  • Thomas Mellon (1813–1908) ∞ 1843: Sarah Jane Negley (1817–1909)
    • Thomas Alexander Mellon, Jr., (1844–1899) ∞ Mary C. Caldwell (1847–1902), the sister of Alexander Caldwell[11]
      • Thomas Alexander Mellon, III (1873–1948) ∞ Helen McLanahan Wightman (1871–1961)
        • Edward Purcell Mellon, II ∞ Louise Grubbs
          • Thomas Alexander Mellon, IV[12]
        • Helen S. Mellon (1914–2007) ∞ 1936: Adolph William Schmidt (1904–2000)[13]
          • Helen Schmidt ∞ unk. Claire
          • Thomas Mellon Schmidt (b. 1940)
      • Edward Purcell Mellon (1875–1953) ∞ Ethel Churchill Humphrey (1880–1938)[14]
        • Jane Caldwell Mellon (1917–2013) ∞ (1) Craigh Leonard ∞ (2) Robinson Simonds (1906–2000)
          • Edward M. Leonard
          • Craigh Leonard, Jr.
          • Stephanie Leonard
      • Mary Caldwell Mellon (1884–1975) ∞ (1) John Herman Kampmann (1880–1957) ∞ (2) Samuel Alfred McClung (1880–1945)
        • John Herman Kampmann, Jr. (1907–1940)
        • Mary Mellon Kampmann (1908–1995) ∞ Lawrence Deen Schwartz (1909–1957)
        • Samuel Alfred McClung, III (1918–2015) ∞ Adelaide "Adie" Smith (1919–2000)
        • Isabel Edith McClung (1920–1967) ∞ Charles Laban Abernethy, Jr. (1913–1990), the son of Charles Laban Abernethy
        • Cynthia Mellon McClung (1921–1991) ∞ Stephen Stone, Jr. (1915–1962)
    • James Ross Mellon (1846–1934) ∞ Rachel Hughey Larimer (1847–1919), the daughter of
      William Larimer
      • William Larimer Mellon (1868–1949) ∞ Mary Hill Taylor
        • Matthew Taylor Mellon (1897–1992) ∞ (1) 1931: (div.) Gertrud Altegoer (1909–2005) ∞ (2) Jane Bartrum[15]
          • Karl Negley Mellon (1938–1983) ∞ Anne Stokes Bright
            • Christopher Mellon (b. 1958)
              • Hunter Mellon (b. 2001)
              • Aiden Mellon (b. 2004)
            • Matthew Taylor Mellon, II (1964–2018) ∞ (1) 2000: (div. 2005) Tamara Yeardye (b. 1967) ∞ (2) Nicole Hanley
              • Andrew L.J. Mellon II (b. 1992)
              • Thomas W. Mellon (b. 1992)
              • Araminta Mellon (b. 2002)
              • Force Mellon (b. 2011)
              • Olympia Mellon (b. 2013)
          • James Ross Mellon, II (b. 1942) ∞ Vivian Ruesch, the daughter of Hans Ruesch
        • Rachel Larimer Mellon (1899–2006)[16] ∞ John Fawcett Walton, Jr. (1893–1974)
          • Farley Walton ∞ Joshua Clyde Whetzel, Jr. (1921–2012)
            • Joshua Clyde Whetzel, III ∞ Marion Plunkett
            • Rachel Walton Whetzel ∞ Richard Casselman
            • Thomas Porter Whetzel
            • William Mellon Whetzel ∞ (1) 1978: (div.) Patricia Joan McGarey ∞ (2) Camilla F.
          • Mary Walton ∞ Walter J. P. Curley, Jr.
          • John Fawcett Walton, III ∞ Phyllis Walton
          • James Mellon Walton (1930–2022) ∞ Ellen Carroll[17]
            • James Mellon Walton, Jr. ∞ Elizabeth Andrews Orr[18]
        • Margaret Lederle Mellon (1901–1998) ∞ (1) 1924: Alexander Laughlin (d. 1926) ∞ (2) 1928: Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. (1900–1944)[19]
          • Alexander Mellon Laughlin (b. 1925)
          • Louise Eustis Hitchcock
          • Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
          • Thomas Hitchcock, III
          • William Mellon Hitchcock
        • William Larimer Mellon, Jr. (1910–1989) ∞ (1) 1930: (div. 1938) Grace Rowley ∞ (2) 1946: Gwen Grant Mellon (née Rawson; 1911–2000), former wife of John de Groot Rawson[20]
      • Sarah Lucille Mellon (1887–1968) ∞ (1) Alexander Grange ∞ (2) George S. Hasbrouck ∞ (3) Sidney J. Holloway
    • Sarah Emma Mellon, who died in childhood
    • Annie Rebecca Mellon, who died in childhood
    • Samuel Selwyn Mellon, who died 1862, at age 9
    • Andrew William Mellon
      (1855–1937) ∞ 1900: (div. 1912) Nora Mary McMullen (1879–1973)
      • Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901–1969) ∞ 1926: (div. 1945) David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898–1977)
        • Audrey Mellon Bruce (1934–1967) ∞ 1955: Stephen Currier (d. 1967), son of Mary Warburg
          • Andrea Bruce Currier (b. 1956) ∞ 1980: Donald Wright Patterson, Jr. (1939)
            • Justin Bruce Patterson ∞ 2013: Anna Elizabeth Burke[22]
          • Lavinia Currier ∞ Joel McCleary[23]
          • Michael Stephen Currier (1961–1998) ∞ Karin Griscom
      • Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr
        • Timothy Mellon (b. 1943)
        • Catherine Conover Mellon ∞ 1957: (div. 1973) John W. Warner III (1927-2021)
          • Virginia Warner
          • John William Warner, IV (b. 1962) ∞ Shannon Ford Hamm (b. 1965)
          • Mary Warner
    • Richard Beatty Mellon
      (1858–1933) ∞ Jennie King (d. 1938)
      • Richard King Mellon (1899–1970) ∞ 1936: Constance Mary (née Prosser) McCaulley (later Burrell; 1910-1980)
        • Richard Prosser Mellon (1939–2020) ∞ (1) Gertrude Adams (1939–2003)[24] (2) Kathryn Dybdal
          • Richard Adams Mellon ∞ Alex Mellon
          • Armour Negley Mellon ∞ Sophie Mellon
        • Cassandra King Mellon (b. 1940) ∞ (1) George M. Henderson ∞ (2) 1979: Edwin Van Rensselaer Milbury
          • Christina Mellon Henderson ∞ 1996: Scott Robert McBroom
          • Bruce King Mellon Henderson
        • Constance Barber Mellon (1941–1983)[25] ∞ William Russell Grace Byers (d. 1999) (brother in law of Joseph Verner Reed Jr.) ∞ (2) 1971: (div. 1973) J. Carter Brown (1934–2002)
          • William Russell Grace Byers, Jr. (b. 1965)
          • Alison Mellon Byers (b. 1967)
        • Seward Prosser Mellon (b. 1942)
      • Sarah Cordelia Mellon (1903–1965) ∞ Alan Magee Scaife (1900–1958)
        • Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005) ∞ (1) 1949: (div. 1950) (1) Herbert A. May, Jr. ∞ (2) 1973: Robert Duggan (1926/7–1974)
        • Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014) ∞ (1) 1956: (div. 1991) Frances L. Gilmore (b. 1934) ∞ (2) 1991: (div. 2012) Margaret "Ritchie" Battle (b. 1947)
          • Jennie K. Scaife (1963–2018)
            • Mary M. Ferri (b.1915)
          • David N. Scaife (b. 1966)
    • George Negley Mellon (1860–1887)

Network

Associates

Businesses

Philanthropy & miscellaneous nonprofits

Buildings, estates & historic sites

References

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  4. ^ Fitzpatrick, Dan (July 1, 2007). "Mellon family's legacy lives on". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  5. ISBN 9781469626987
    . 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.
  6. ^ "Obituary: Paul Mellon". The Independent. 3 February 1999. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  7. ^ Tanfani, Joseph (25 July 2013). "Late heiress' anti-immigration efforts live on". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013.
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  13. ^ "Helen Mellon Schmidt obituary". St. Augustine Record. September 27, 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Edward P. Mellon's obituary". New York Times. September 6, 1938. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
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  20. ^ Pace, Eric (2 December 2000). "Gwen Grant Mellon, 89, Dies; Founder of a Haitian Hospital". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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  24. ^ Vondas, Jerry (August 5, 2003). "Renowned decorator also respected for generosity". TribLIVE.com. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  25. ^ "Constance Barber Mellon, 41, Prominent Patron of the Arts". The New York Times. 4 January 1983. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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  28. ^
    The Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Slightly more than half of the common stock, and 33.9 percent of the preferred, of the (6) Pittsburgh Coal Company were owned by members of the Mellon family.(7) The Aluminum Company of America
    was controlled [by the Mellon family] through ownership of 35.2 percent of the common, 25 percent of the preferred, stock, by far the largest block in existence.
  29. ^ a b c d e f g "Mellon's Miracle". LIFE. New York City, NY: Time Inc. 14 May 1956. pp. 151–159. Retrieved 2024-03-04. Today the Mellons control or own substantial shares in a $6 billion industrial and financial domain. In addition to the holdings in the bank, now the Mellon National, the family owns about 30% of Alcoa, 41.3% of Gulf Oil, 33% of the First Boston Corporation, 40% of Koppers Company, and 100% of Carborundum Company.
  30. ^ a b Ravo, Nick (1997). "Thomas Evans, 86, a Takeover Expert, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-04. During the days when Wall Street was as boring as a gray flannel suit, [Thomas Mellon] Evans was one of its more daring and rapacious characters, waging waves of takeover battles. Sometimes, he was victorious, as with the Crane Company, and a cement maker, the Medusa Corporation. Sometimes, he was defeated, as he was with Anaconda and Westinghouse Air Brake.
  31. ^ Cannadine 2006, p. 137.
  32. ^
    ISBN 9781467145299
    . "Guilford Transportation Company (GTI) became a major player in carrying freight throughout the Northeastern United States when it entered the railroad business in 1981. It bought not only the Maine Central Railroad but also the Boston and Maine Corporation and the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company...GTI changed its name to Pan Am Systems in 2006. The company is privately owned by an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, Timothy Mellon, and other stakeholders including David Fink, formerly of Penn Central, and his son, David A. Fink.
  33. ISBN 978-0-7385-5729-8
    . Judge Thomas Mellon bought the Ligonier and Latrobe Rail Road in 1871 when the line was still incomplete. Mellon changed the name to the Ligonier Valley Railroad and completed the line in 1877.
  34. ^ a b Chavez, Lydia (1981-05-27). "Mellon Also Buying the Maine Central". New York Times. p. 5, Section D. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
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  36. OL 6360759M. Retrieved 2022-07-08 – via Internet Archive
    . p. 259: After losing a good deal of money with this early partisan of the New Deal, which subsequently reversed policy, Harriman and Astor bought a large interest early in 1937 in News-Week. There they joined a group of other important stockholders, which included Ward Cheney, of the Cheney silk family, John Hay Whitney, and Paul Mellon, son of Andrew W. Mellon.
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  38. ^ "Coal Conference Gives Leaders Hope." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Pittsburgh Press, July 3, 1931, p. 3 of pp. 1, 3 (subscription required).
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    . The Post-Gazette's new competition came from the Greensberg— now Pittsburgh—Tribune Review owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to banking, oil and steelmaking fortunes.
  40. ISBN 978-1-4128-1082-1
    . At Butler, Pennsylvania, [Andrew] Mellon built the Standard Steel Car Company to manufacture railroad rolling stock.
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  42. ^ Cannadine 2006, pp. 225–228.
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  49. ^ Jacob, Mary K. (2021-10-25). "Cape Cod estate of Bunny Mellon, known as Scallop Path, sold for $19M". New York Post. Retrieved 2023-02-24.

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