American industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) played leading roles in expanding the Carnegie Steel Company into the largest such enterprise in the world and in forming the United States Steel Company. Born to a farming family in...

Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait, by Martha Frick Symington Sanger, New York, Abbeville Press, 1998; 600 pages, $50. In an era when the richest person in America has made his money from computer technology, it seems entirely appropriate that this same...

Rich art collectors Frick and Du Pont are the subject of biographies written by two women. 'Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait' was written by Frick's great-granddaughter, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, while 'Henry F. du Pont and Winterthur: A Daughter's Portrait' was authored by...

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, by Les Standiford. Crown, 319 pages, $24.95. In Meet You in Hell, Les Standiford invites readers back to the days when capitalists were capitalists and workers were workers-and when...

Emily T. Frick and Dr. Henry Clay Frick II, the grandson of the legendary steel magnate, have bought a co-op at 3 East 77th Street. The $3.9 million purchase comes eight months after the couple sold their 7,000-square-foot house in Alpine, N.J., for $58 million....