Henry Clay Frick II (October 18, 1919 – February 9, 2007) was an American

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and professor of medicine at the

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Biography

He was born on October 18, 1919, in

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the son of

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(1883–1965), the

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, and grandson of his namesake, the coke and

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magnate

Henry Clay Frick Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, and played a major ...

(1849–1919). He attended St. Paul's School. In 1942 he graduated from

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and then from the medical school in 1944 at

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. After

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he served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and became a captain. Frick practiced medicine in New York, and later became a professor of clinical

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at Columbia and an

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. During the 1960s he voluntarily served two tours of duty in a

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during the

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. Frick was a trustee and board president of New York's

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and chairman of his aunt's Helen Clay Frick Foundation. In this later capacity he directed the restoration, according to his aunt's wishes, of the Frick family's Pittsburgh estate, Clayton. He also was a trustee of the

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and the

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. He died at age 87 on February 9, 2007, at his Alpine, New Jersey home.

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