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Thomas Mellon Evans amassed a $290 million fortune and died in 1997 with a menacing epithet: "the Jaws of Business." He started in the Gulf Oil stats department in 1931 and became one of the...

Thomas Mellon: Alumnus Who Founded a Dynasty Inspired by The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , Thomas A. Mellon decided in 1834 to enroll at the Western University of Pennsylvania rather than try to eke out a living on his family’s farm.

Thomas Mellon (1813–1908), judge and founder of the Mellon Bank; 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.

Irish immigrant Thomas Mellon landed in America in 1818 at age five and grew up in a log cabin near Poverty Point, Pennsylvania. Mellon became a judge and invested his income in real estate and...

An earlier novel by Thomas Mallon, "Fellow Travelers," is about two gay men working for the State Department during the lavender scare, when the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s was also a...

Thomas Alexander Mellon (February 3, 1813 – February 3, 1908) was an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Age: Dec. at 95 (1813-1908) Birthplace: Cappagh, United Kingdom Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain Andrew W. Mellon

Following the discovery, Thomas Mellon built the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. The firm continued to develop oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, as well as in Mexico and Venezuela; by 1923 the Port Arthur refinery was the largest in the world.

Thomas Mallon, who's been praised for his historical novels, including "Henry And Clara," "Watergate" and "Fellow Travelers," has a new novel that centers on that relatively unremembered life.