FRICK, HENRY CLAY (1849-1919), American manu facturer and philanthropist, was born at West Overton (Pa.), on June 17, 1849. He early became interested in the coke business. In 1871 he organized the firm of Frick and Co., which ultimately acquired large coal deposits and ran 12,000 coke ovens. He was chairman of the board of Carnegie Bros., from 1889 to 1892, and in 1892, during the Homestead strike, was shot and stabbed by Alexander Berkman, an anarchist. He was a director of the Penn sylvania, the Santa Fe and other railways, and of the U.S. Steel Corporation. He died in New York, Dec. 2, 1919.
He left to the city of Pittsburgh land for a park, together with an endowment. His New York mansion, with its collection of paintings, bronzes and enamels, he bequeathed with an endow ment to the city on the death of his wife. Among the various objects are the Fragonard panels, Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert," Velasquez' "Philip IV.," Van Dyck's "Paola Adorno," Rembrandt's "Portrait of Himself," Gainsborough's "The Mall," and "The Hon. Anna Duncan." It includes also fine examples of Titian, Vermeer, Frans Hals, Ruysdael, Cuyp, Rubens, El Greco, Goya, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Millet, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney and Turner. He divided his residuary estate, estimated at $50,000,000, between various hospitals and educational and charitable institutions.