Early Life and Family
Du Pont was born March 29, 1797 in Charleston, South Carolina, son of Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours and Gabrielle Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport. He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware. He was educated at Mount Airy seminary, Germantown, Pennsylvania and married Dorcas Montgomery Van Dyke in 1824. They had one son, Victor. After her death, he married Anne Ridgely and had two children, Amelia (who married her cousin Eugene du Pont) and Henry Ridgely du Pont.
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