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Henry Algernon du Pont was born on July 30, 1838 near Wilmington, Delaware, United States. He was the elder son of Henry du Pont and his wife Louisa Gerhard.
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Henry Algernon du Pont was born on July 30, 1838 near Wilmington, Delaware, United States. He was the elder son of Henry du Pont and his wife Louisa Gerhard.
After preparatory training at Dr. Lyons’s school near Philadelphia, and one year at the University of Pennsylvania, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating at the head of his class in 1861.
In the several ranks up to that of major du Pont was engaged in a large number of battles and skirmishes of the Civil War, usually in command of artillery, in northern Virginia and the Valley.
He was under fire for the first time at the battle of New Market, when twenty-six years old.
He was brevetted major for gallant services at Opequon and Fisher’s Hill, and received the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished services and extraordinary gallantry at Cedar Creek.
After the war he commanded light artillery and was ranking officer in various army posts in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Rhode Island.
He was a member of the board of officers which assimilated the tactics for the three arms of the service.
His father, head of the firm of E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company, had long urged him to resign his army commission and join other members of the family in management of the powder manufactory.
He was reluctant to leave military life, but did so in 1875; in 1878, at the time of the readjustment following the death of the second E. I du Pont, he became a member of the firm.
Out of this last connection grew his election (May 1879) to the presidency of the Wilmington and Northern Railroad.
After the death of his father in 1889, Du Pont had charge of the settlement of his estate, and this experience led him to urge that the partnership be changed to a corporation; after much discussion and the instituting of compromise to overcome opposition, a charter was taken out under the laws of Delaware in October 1899 and he became one of three vice-presidents.
He helped, nevertheless, to formulate the plan whereby the direction remained in the hands of the family, T. Coleman du Pont, Alfred I du Pont, and Pierre S. du Pont purchasing the old company for $12, 000, 000.
His election by the Delaware legislature in 1895 to the United States Senate having been contested on a technical point, the Senate committee recommended that he be seated, but he lost in the general vote; he did not receive the unanimous support of his own party, it was believed, because of his espousal of the gold standard.
Du Pont was distinguished for gracious, courtly manners.
In his last years he gave much attention to farming, a traditional interest in his family, and to literary work.
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Du Pont was distinguished for gracious, courtly manners. In his last years he gave much attention to farming, a traditional interest in his family, and to literary work.
Henry Algernon du Pont married Mary Foster.