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Alfred Irénée du Pont (May 12, 1864 – April 28, 1935) was an American industrialist, financier, philanthropist and a member of the influential Du Pont family. Alfred du Pont first rose to prominence through his work in his family's Delaware-based gunpowder manufacturing plant, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (now known as ...
du Pont family through a half dozen generations, but also says a great deal about the growth of business, industry, technology, and finance in the context of the history of the United States
Alfred I. Du Pont, Alexis I. Du Pont, Correspondence, 1904 - 1913. Business records document the early days of the duPont Powder Company at the turn of the century to its breakup in 1915. Included is correspondence between Alfred, his cousin,Frank Cazenove Jones, and his brother, Maurice duPont. The details of the duPont family lawsuit are ...
26 de jul. de 2021 · Alfred I. du Pont was the great-grandson of E.I. du Pont de Nemours who settled in Delaware after fleeing the French Revolution. E.I. founded the company the became known as DuPont. Alfred worked with his cousins in the family business, but after a falling out, left the company and Delaware for Jacksonville, FL with his third wife ...
11 de may. de 2014 · In 1902 Alfred and his cousins Pierre and T. Coleman du Pont purchased the company to keep it in the family. By 1909, he was building Nemours with the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings ...
Alfred I. duPont was an industrialist, scientist, musician, inventor and leading turn-of-the-century philanthropist with a legacy of service. His last will and testament established the duPont Charitable Trust in 1935, which provided for the formation of The Nemours Foundation.
His immediate successors were two sons, Alfred Victor du Pont (1798–1856), who headed the company from 1834 to 1850 in a traditional manner, and Henry du Pont (1812–89), who proved more vigorously enterprising.
