The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune

by JamesMellon (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $112.90

  Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. Offering characterization of the Scotch-Irish value system that governed the patriarch's work and life, the author captures the judge's complexities and contradictions.