Death and Legacy
Alfred du Pont died October 4, 1856 at Eleutherian Mills, near Greenville, Delaware, and is buried in the Du Pont Cemetery near Greenville.
His son, Alfred Victor du Pont, would become a founding father of Phi Kappa Sigma, in 1850.
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