American industrialist Henry Clay Frick is born in West Overton, Pennsylvania. Frick discovered a way to turn coal into coke for easier manufacturing, founded H. C. Frick & Company, and later merged with Carnegie Steel Company. After a checkered business career that included an attempt on his life, Frick donated land that became Frick Park and converted his art collection into the Frick Art & Historical Center in Pittsburgh.
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