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With loans from wealthy friends Andrew Mellon and Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick was on his road to riches by the age of twenty-one. His coal and coke company soon employed 1,000 workers and controlled 80 percent of the coal output in Pennsylvania. Together, Frick and Carnegie the largest steel enterprise in Pennsylvania. By 1892 their operations became the epicenter of the Homestead Strike.
