The judge
Subtitle: a life of Thomas Mellon, founder of a fortune
By: James Mellon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780300167146
Subjects: Capitalists and financiers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-547) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings in Ulster, the crossing, and the fourth R; title: From plowboy to professor; title: Choosing the law, shopping for a wife, the Great Fire of 1845; title: The Taub, Winebiddle, and Negley fortunes, or what Thomas Mellon married; title: Home life on Negley Lane, raising the Mellon boys; title: Years of the law, first encounter with James B. Corey, the Lee case, clash with Colonel Black, Entering the coal business, Judge Thomas Mellon; title: The storm over James's enlistment; title: Closet philosopher Mellon, his infatuation with Herbert Spencer, views on religion and education; title: On capital punishment and the jury system; four hangings; Judges McClure, Sterrett, and Stowe; title: Banker and businessman, his Larimer and Caldwell in-laws, the founding of Mellon Brothers and of T. Mellon & Sons, loans to Henry Clay Frick; title: The panic of 1873, his finest hour; title: The ABCD lawsuits; title: Early life of Andrew W. Mellon, his friendship with Henry Clay Frick; title: The Mellons build a railroad, leadership of the family passes to Andrew; title: The judge's clashes with organized labor: the "great uprising" of 1877, prosecution of David Jones, slander suit against the National Labor Tribune; title: A passage to Ireland, "sinking" the island; title: The reluctant politician; title: Andrew the financier, his father's influence; title: The judge writes his memoirs, how to defeat poverty; title: The short life and long death of George Mellon, odyssey of the Glen Eyre, Richard is given half of T. Mellon & Sons; title: The judge's relations with Frick and Carnegie; title: False spring at Kansas City, destitute of the fortune; title: The inclines abandoned, the "boodlers" routed, Judge Mellon sued for slander; title: Selwyn and George "return"; title: The long twilight; title: In the judge's shadow: an epilogue.