Henry Clay Frick 1902 Autograph Letter Signed to Sister Financier Robber Baron

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Henry Clay Frick 1902 Autograph Letter Signed to Sister Financier Robber Baron:
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Henry Clay Frick 1902 Autograph Letter Signed to Sister Financier Robber Baron. Personal letter written to his sister, Maria O Frick Overholt (1848-1939). Letter reads \"My Dear Maria, You can go ahead and build your house and I will furnish the money as needed. I enclose check to pay for the lot. Always Your Clay May 26, 1902.\". Mailing envelope also included addressed to Maria\'s husband John S.R. Overholt (1837-1925) at Wooster Ohio. Letter measures 8\" x 10 1/2\". Scarce. <P>Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company, and owned extensive real estate holdings in Pittsburgh and throughout the state of Pennsylvania. He later built the historic neoclassical Frick Mansion (now a landmark building in Manhattan), and upon his death donated his extensive collection of old master paintings and fine furniture to create the celebrated Frick Collection and art museum.