Alfred I. du Pont

Alfred Irne du Pont was an American industrialist, financier, philanthropist and a member of the influential Du Pont family.

Du Pont was born in the Brandywine Valley region of Delaware to which his greatgreatgrandfather Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours had immigrated with his sons after the French Revolution. The son of leuthre Irne du Pont II, a partner in the DuPont family gunpowder business, and Charlotte Shepard Henderson, he had two older sisters and two younger brothers. When du Pont was 13, his mother, who had a history of mental illness, was committed to an asylum following an episode of hysteria. Within a week, she died. The du Pont children were orphaned a month later when leuthre followed, a victim of tuberculosis.

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