The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential family originally of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

, United States, and its vicinity. In addition to Mellon Bank

Mellon Financial

Mellon Financial Corporation, was one of the world's largest money management firms. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was in the business of institutional and high-net-worth-individual asset management, including the Dreyfus family of mutual funds; business banking; and shareholder and...

 they were principally known for their control over Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies...

, Alcoa

Alcoa

Alcoa Inc. is the world's third largest producer of aluminum, behind Rio Tinto Alcan and Rusal. From its operational headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alcoa conducts operations in 31 countries...

, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States...

 and Koppers

Koppers

Koppers is a global chemical and materials company based in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States in an art-deco 1920s skyscraper, the Koppers Tower.-Structure:...

, as well as their major influence on Westinghouse, H.J. Heinz, Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

, U.S. Steel

U.S. Steel

The United States Steel Corporation , more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company is the world's tenth largest steel producer ranked by sales...

, Credit Suisse First Boston

Credit Suisse First Boston

Credit Suisse First Boston was the former name of the banking firm Credit Suisse.-History:In 1978, Credit Suisse and First Boston Corporation formed a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture called the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston...

 and General Motors

General Motors

General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

. The family also founded the National Gallery

National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

 in both art and funds, claims the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretary, and is a patron to the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital

Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, founded by Larry Mellon and his wife Gwen Grant Mellon in 1956, is an integrated rural health system that provides medical care and community health and development programs for 300,000 impoverished people in the Artibonite Valley of central Haiti...

, and with art the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

. Carnegie Mellon, and its Mellon College of Science

Mellon College of Science

The Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA houses the Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and Biological Sciences departments...

, is named in honor of the family as well as for its founder, Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...

, who was a close associate of the Mellons.

The family was founded by Judge Thomas Mellon

Thomas Mellon

Thomas Alexander Mellon was a Scotch-Irish American, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

 (1813–1908), a son of Andrew Mellon and Rececca Wauchob who were farmers from Camp Hill Cottage, Lower Castletown, parish of Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The family can be divided into four branches:

• Thomas Mellon
  Thomas Mellon
  Thomas Alexander Mellon was a Scotch-Irish American, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
  
   (1813–1908), Judge and founder of the Mellon Bank who married Sarah Jane Negley
  • James Ross Mellon, who married Rachel Larimer
    • William Larimer Mellon, Sr. (1868–1949) who married Mary Hill Taylor
      • Rachel Mellon Walton
        Rachel Mellon Walton
        Rachel Mellon Walton was an American philanthropist.-Life:Walton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the daughter of William Larimer Mellon , of the banking family, and himself a founder of Gulf Oil. Her mother was Mary "May" Taylor Mellon. Walton was educated at the Dobbs Ferry School in Dobbs...
        
         (1899–2006) who married John Walton, Jr.
      • Margaret Mellon Hitchcock
      • William Larimer Mellon, Jr. (1910–1989), founder of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti
      • Matthew T. Mellon II (1964 -) is the Chairman of the Republican Party Finance of New York, and is a Regent Director of Finance for the Republican National Committee. Mr Mellon has founded or participated in multiple start ups such as Jimmy Choo, Harrys of London, Hanley Mellon, Marquis Jets, Arrival Aviation and Challenge Capital Partners. Mr Mellon lives in New York with his wife Nicole Hanley Mellon and their newborn baby son, Force. He also has a daughter, Araminta who he raises jointly with his former wife Tamara Mellon.
        • Karl N. Mellon
          • Christopher Mellon
            Christopher Mellon
            Christopher K. Mellon born 1957, son of Karl N. Mellon, the great-grandson of Gulf Oil co-founder William Larimer Mellon. A descendant of "Judge" Thomas Mellon, founder of Mellon Bank....
            
             (1958 -)
  • Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937), one of the longest serving U.S. Treasury Secretaries in history
    • Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901–1969) who married David K. E. Bruce
      David K. E. Bruce
      David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce was an American diplomat, and the only American to serve as Ambassador to France, the Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
      
      
    • Paul Mellon
      Paul Mellon
      Paul Mellon KBE was an American philanthropist, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame...
      
       (1907–1999) who married Rachel Lambert Mellon
      Rachel Lambert Mellon
      Rachel "Bunny" Lowe Lambert Lloyd Mellon is an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, fine arts collector, member of the International Best Dressed List, and widow of philanthropist, art collector, thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, and banking heir Paul Mellon.-Background:Known...
      
       (1910-)
      • Timothy Mellon
        Timothy Mellon
        Timothy Mellon is chairman and majority owner of Pan Am Systems, a transportation holding company.The son of Paul Mellon and his first wife, Mary Conover Brown, Timothy Mellon holds a degree in city planning from Yale University...
        
        
      • Catherine Conover Mellon
  • Richard Beatty Mellon (1858–1933), American banker, industrialist and philanthropist
    • Richard King Mellon
      Richard King Mellon
      Richard King Mellon , commonly known as R.K., was an American financier from Ligonier, Pennsylvania.-Biography:The son of Richard B. Mellon, nephew of Andrew W...
      
       (1899–1970)
    • Sarah Mellon
      Sarah Mellon
      Sarah Mellon was the niece of Andrew W. Mellon . She was one of the heirs to the Mellon fortune, including Mellon Bank and major investments in Gulf Oil and Alcoa...
      
       (1903–1965) who married Alan Scaife
      • Richard Mellon Scaife
        Richard Mellon Scaife
        Richard Mellon Scaife is an American newspaper publisher and billionaire. Scaife owns and publishes the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. With $1.2 billion, Scaife, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No...
        
         (1932- ) chief sponsor of the Heritage Foundation and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
        Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
        The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
        
        
  • Thomas Alexander Mellon