HENRY CLAY FRICK 
LIFE MEMBER 
Henry Clay Frick was born December 19, 1849, in West Overland, Westmoreland 
County, Pa. His father, John W. Frick, was a farmer of Swiss ancestry, and his mother, 
Elizabeth Overholt Frick, a member of an old Mennonite family. Until he was sixteen 
he spent his time at school, on his father’s farm, and in his grandfather’s distillery, where 
he kept books. He attended Otterbein University, in Ohio, for a year. 
Learning that coke was an essential of the already rapidly developing steel business, 
Mr. Frick early invested every cent he could in coking coal lands. With the help of an 
associate of his grandfather, he formed the corporation of Frick & Company, coke 
dealers, and acquired fifty-one ovens in the Connellsville region and 300 acres of soft- 
coal lands. During the panic of 1873, with the help of Judge Thomas Mellon, a Pitts- 
burgh banker, he bought out his partners, and while coke was selling at 90 cents a ton 
enlarged his purchases of suitable lands. Later, the price of coke increased until it was 
selling at $5 a ton. Before he was thirty years old, Frick was rated a millionaire. 
Mr. Frick was a pioneer in modern coke and steel industry and in recent years one 
of the outstanding financiers of America. 
He was a student and lover of art, and by the use of patience and thought and 
large sums of money he formed one of the finest private collections of paintings, statuary, 
bronzes, porcelains, enamels, furniture, and other objects of art in existence, all of which, 
under the provisions of his testament, will in due time be permanently turned over to 
the public use and enjoyment, together with his costly home in New York, adequately 
endowed. 
Mr. Frick was a Life Member of this Society since its foundation. He died Decem- 
ber 2, 19109. 
HENRY LAURENCE GANTT 
ASSOCIATE 
Henry Laurence Gantt was born May 20, 1861, in Calvert County, Md. He was 
graduated from Johns Hopkins as a Bachelor of Arts when only nineteen years of age 
and taught for three years at the McDonough School in Baltimore County, which he 
had attended as a boy. In 1884 he received the degree of Mechanical Engineer from 
Stevens Institute of Technology. 
He was associated with Frederick W. Taylor in his early work at the Midvale and 
Bethlehem Steel companies, and with this as a basis and his personal ability as an organizer 
