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Henry Clay Frick
D.O.B. - December 19, 1849 D.O.D. - December 2, 1919

Birth Place- West Overton, Pennsylvania He started to work for his grandpa as a child as a Prosperous Merchant and as a deck and a bookkeeper. In his thirty he was in booming Coke Company which is hard coal that burns longer and hotter. By this time he is already a Millionaire in the largest cokes business in the world at the time. His fame got Andrew Carnegie attention then they formed a partner ship giving each of them a share of their companies. When Carnegie retired Frick became chairmen. He tired to make as much profit as he could. After the Homestead Strike, he was shot and stabbed by an unknown man but lived. Frick and other high power business men made a dam to fish in, but the dam wasn’t taken care of and flooded the town below. Robber VS Captain - He started his a career as a Robber Baron but when he was attacked changed his point of view to a Captain of Industry. during his young career he would try to make as much profit he would make the workers work hard and not paying them very much When he died he left 50 million dollars to charitable organizations, and gave his unfinished land to the city of Pittsburgh then the city used it as a city park.

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