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Title	Henry Clay Frick Sculpture
Subject	Presidents and Politics Arts and Entertainment Business and Labor McKinley, William, 1843-1901 Monuments & memorials Sculpture Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919
Place	Niles (Ohio) Trumbull County (Ohio) New York (New York)
Description	Henry Clay Frick made numerous donations to the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial building, and the McKinley Memorial Library in particular. On September 30, 1914, Joseph Butler visited Henry Clay Frick at his home in Pittsburgh to seek a donation for construction of the memorial building and advice on funding the public library addition. When Frick learned that the starting cost of the library would be $50,000, he went to his study and wrote a check for that amount. The only stipulation was that his name not be part of the name of the library. In recognition of Henry Clay Frick's support, Butler commissioned John Massey Rhind to create this bronze 37" (93.98 cm) bust of Frick. It was placed in the center of the library's lobby. Frick continued to support the library and memorial after they were constructed, including donating 1,000 new books in 1919 to double the size of the existing collection. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was an industrialist and philanthropist from western Pennsylvania. Over the course of his career he had managing and financial interests in Frick & Company (suppliers for the steel industry), Carnegie Steel Company, and the United States Steel Corporation. He was a generous patron of libraries, museums, and the arts and had been a close associate of President McKinley. William McKinley (1843-1901), the twenty-fifth president of the United States, was born in Niles, Ohio. He enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the Civil War and, after being mustered out, studied law and opened a law office in Canton, Ohio. McKinley served in the U.S. Congress for 14 years, and became president in 1897, largely due to the influence of Marcus Hanna, boss of the Cleveland political machine. McKinley was most noted for his foreign policy and the conduct of the Spanish-American War in 1898. It was during McKinley's administration that the U.S. acquired its first overseas possessions in the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. He was re-elected in 1900, but was assassinated by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in 1901. His running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, then became president.
Creator	Massey Rhind, John
Date of Original	1917
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) 95.01.543
Submitting Institution	McKinley Memorial Library
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om2335_1874946_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2335_1874946_001.tif
Image Height	1928
Image Width	1196
File Size	502.666 KB

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