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William and Mary is grateful for the generous support that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided to undergraduate initiatives. This has included a number of substantial grants in recent years.
From 1921 to 1932, Andrew William Mellon served Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover as Treasury secretary. Only two other individuals in American history held the office longer than his 10 ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded William & Mary a $1 million grant to support inclusive research, teaching and community engagement around the legacies of slavery and racism. The five-year ...
Andrew W. Mellon, born in 1855 and died in 1937, was an American businessman and statesman. He served as secretary of the treasury under three Republican presidents—Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover ...
Andrew Mellon bought out the discoverer for $400,000. The $15,000,000 Guffey Petroleum Co. (later Gulf Oil) was founded—40% Mellon owned to begin with—more as time went on.
In 1889, when the late Andrew William Mellon founded his first Pittsburgh bank, he called it “The Union Transfer and Trust Co.” The choice of name was unfortunate. So many householders asked ...
Of all the figures in American history, none is in direr need of rehabilitation than Andrew William Mellon. Mellon the financier created an empire of coal and steel that fueled modern industry. Mellon ...
Andrew W. Mellon could not have created the National Gallery of Art if he did not have lots of pictures, and he wouldn’t have had lots of pictures if he did not have a great deal of money to ...
NEW YORK — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and William Penn Foundation on Wednesday announced $8 million in emergency funding to 37 Philadelphia cultural organizations reeling from COVID-19.