Series 1 - Thomas Mellon memoir

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P/P155/9/1

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Thomas Mellon memoir

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  • 1885-2010 (Creation)

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Transcripts and copies from a published source: Mellon, Thomas (1885) (1969). Thomas Mellon and His Times. Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co.

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[This manuscript contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.] Materials pertaining to the autobiography of 19th century American business magnate Thomas Mellon. Mellon was born on a large farm in Lower Castletown, Omagh, County Tyrone in 1813 and emigrated to Pennsylvania at age 5 in 1818. He wrote his memoir, Thomas Mellon and His Times, in the early 1880s and published it, first privately, in 1885. The series contains Kerby A. Miller's research notes, a typed version of Thomas Mellon and His Times and photocopy of the published memoir, and copies of secondary source research materials.

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