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Frick, Helen Clay (3 Sept. 1888–9 Nov. 1984), philanthropist and art historian  

Melanie Linn Gutowski

Frick, Helen Clay (3 Sept. 1888–9 Nov. 1984), philanthropist and art historian, was born Helen Childs Frick in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third child of Henry Clay Frick and Adelaide Howard Childs Frick. Her upbringing was one of extraordinary privilege as her father, the controversial industrialist and art collector, showered his family with every luxury. Little of her father’s public reputation as a ruthless businessman and strike breaker would touch her idyllic childhood at Clayton, the family home. Helen was intensely devoted to her father, seen especially in her decision around age ten to change her given middle name to his own....

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Frick, Helen Clay (September 3, 1888–November 9, 1984)  

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Portrait of Helen Frick, between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920 by Bain News Service

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 [LC-B2- 5094-8]

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Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908), scholar and critic  

James Turner

Norton, Charles Eliot (16 November 1827–21 October 1908), scholar and critic, was born at “Shady Hill,” his family’s estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His parents were Andrews Norton, biblical scholar and man of letters, and Catharine Eliot, daughter of a wealthy Boston merchant. Charles grew up in an academic household frequented by ...