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 steel manufacturing concern. He also financed the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company, ...
Parma is an ancient city, the origins of which date back to the Bronze Age. (The present-day Piazza Duomo is built on the necropolis constructed around 1500 BC.) It is thought that the city was most probably founded and named by the Etruscans. As a History of Art student, I knew the...
The Bahama Star was built in 1931 by Bethlehem Steel's Fore River Shipyard as theBorinquenfor the New-York to Puerto Rico trade. She was used as the USSBorinquentroopship during WWII. After the war, she returned to her prior duties and was sold in 1949 to the Bull Steamship Company, ...
The United States was founded by immigrants of different nationalities and different ethnicities. Its unifying purpose was not to establish a particular religion or to perpetuate any of the diverse cultures or tribal loyalties of the old countries. Our founding generation sought to be unified by a ...
After his discharge from the Navy he founded a home construction business, Woodstone Developers, and built numerous homes in the Merrimack, NH area. He served on the Merrimack Board of Selectmen and also served on the Neighborhood Association for Baboosic Lake. Mickey moved to Portsmouth in ...