Mellon family

The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential family originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, and its vicinity. In addition to Mellon Bank (Since 2007 the Bank of New York Mellon) they were principally known for their control over Gulf Oil (present day Chevron-Texaco), Alcoa, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Koppers, New York Shipbuilding and Carborundum Corporation, as well as their major financial and ownership influence on Westinghouse, H.J. Heinz, Newsweek, U.S. Steel, Credit Suisse First Boston and General Motors. The family also founded the National Gallery in both art works and funds, claims one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretary, and is a patron to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, and with art the University of Virginia. Carnegie Mellon, and its Mellon College of Science, is named in honor of the family as well as for its founder, Andrew Carnegie, who was a close associate of the Mellons.

The family's founding patriarch was Judge Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), a son of Andrew Mellon and Rececca Wauchob who were Scotch-Irish farmers from Camp Hill Cottage, Lower Castletown, parish of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and emigrated to what is presently the Pittsburgh suburb of north-central Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The family can be divided into four branches:

• Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), Judge and founder of the Mellon Bank who married Sarah Jane Negley of Pittsburgh. As a boy he decided to abandon his parents farming lifestyle for law and banking in the city after reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
  • James Ross Mellon, who married Rachel Larimer
    • William Larimer Mellon, Sr. (1868–1949) who married Mary Hill Taylor
      • Rachel Mellon Walton (1899–2006) who married John Walton, Jr.
      • Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
      • William Larimer Mellon, Jr. (1910–1989), founder of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
      • Matthew T. Mellon II (1964 -) is the Chairman of the Republican Party Finance of New York, and is a Regent Director of Finance for the Republican National Committee. Mr. Mellon has founded or participated in multiple start ups such as Jimmy Choo, Harrys of London, Hanley Mellon, Marquis Jets, Arrival Aviation and Challenge Capital Partners. Mr. Mellon lives in New York with his wife Nicole Hanley Mellon and their son, Force. He also has a daughter, Araminta who he raises jointly with his former wife Tamara Mellon.
        • Karl N. Mellon
          • Christopher Mellon (1958 -)
    • S. Lucille Mellon (1887–1968), who successively married Sidney J. Holloway, Alexander Grange, and George S. Hasbrouck
  • Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history and also the namesake of Washington, D.C.'s Andrew Mellon Building and Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
    • Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901–1969) who married David K. E. Bruce
    • Paul Mellon (1907–1999) who married Rachel Lambert Mellon (1910-)
      • Timothy Mellon
      • Catherine Conover Mellon
  • Richard Beatty Mellon (1858–1933), American banker, industrialist and philanthropist
    • Richard King Mellon (1899–1970)
    • Sarah Mellon (1903–1965) who married Alan Scaife
      • Richard Mellon Scaife (1932- ) chief sponsor of the Heritage Foundation and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  • Thomas Alexander Mellon