South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club - Club Members

Club Members

The charter members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, assembled by Henry Clay Frick were: Benjamin Ruff; T. H. Sweat; Charles J. Clarke; Thomas Clark; Walter F. Fundenberg; Howard Hartley; Henry C. Yeager; J. B. White; E. A. Myers; C. C. Hussey; D. R. Ewer; C. A. Carpenter; W. L. Dunn; W. L. McClintock; A. V. Holmes.

Alphabetically, a complete listing of club membership included:

• Edward Jay Allen - helped to organize the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company
• D.W.C Bidwell - owner of a mining industry explosives supply company
• James W. Brown - member of the 58th United States Congress, president of the Colonial Steel Company, and secretary and treasurer for Hussey, Howe and Company, Steel Works, Ltd.
• Hilary B. Brunot - attorney in Pittsburgh
• John Caldwell, Jr. - treasurer of the Philadelphia Company
• Andrew Carnegie - Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist
• C.A. Carpenter - freight agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
• John Weakley Chalfant - president of People's National bank, associated with steel tubing manufacturer Spang, Chalfant and Company
• George H. Christy - attorney in Pittsburgh
• Thomas Clark
• Charles John Clarke - founder of Pittsburgh based transportation company Clarke and Company, father of Louis Clarke
• Louis Semple Clarke - co founder of the Autocar Company and developer of the first porcelain-insulated spark plugs
• A.C. Crawford
• William T. Dunn - owner of the building supply company William T. Dunn and Company
• Cyrus Elder - attorney and chief counsel for the Cambria Iron Company
• Daniel R. Euwer - lumber dealer for Euwer and Brothers
• John King Ewing - involved with real estate through Ewing and Byers
• Aaron S. French - founder of A. French Spring Company, manufacturer of steel springs for railroad cars
• Henry Clay Frick - successful American industrialist and art patron
• Walter Franklin Fundenburg - dentist
• A. G. Harmes - manufacturer of machinery through his Harmes Machinery Depot
• John A. Harper - assistant cashier of the Bank of Pittsburgh, president of Western Pennsylvania Hospital
• Howard Hartley - manufacturer of leather products and rubber belts through Hartley Brothers
• Henry Holdship - co founder of the Art Society of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
• Americus Vespecius Holmes - vice-president of Dollar Bank
• Durbin Horne - president of retail company Joseph Horne and Company
• George Franklin Huff - member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1884 to 1888, member of the 52nd United States Congress, the 54th United States Congress, and the 58th United States Congress and the three succeeding Congresses
• Christopher Curtis Hussey - Hussey, Howe and Company, steel manufacturers
• Lewis Irwin
• Philander Chase Knox - American lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and was Secretary of State from 1909–1913
• Frank B. Laughlin - secretary of the Solar Carbon and Manufacturing Company
• John Jacob Lawrence - paint and color manufacturer, partner of Moses Suydam
• John George Alexander Leishman - worked in various executive positions at Carnegie Steel Company, served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey from 1899–1901
• Jesse H. Lippincott - associated with the Banner Baking Powder firm
• Sylvester Stephen Marvin - established himself in the cracker business, founding S. S. Marvin Co., centerpiece to the organization of the National Biscuit Company)
• Frank T., Oliver, and Walter L. McClintock - associated with O. McClintock and Company, a mercantile house
• James S. McCord - owner of the wholesale hatters McCord and Company
• James McGregor
• W. A. McIntosh (president of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company and father of Burr McIntosh and Nancy McIntosh)
• H. Sellers McKee - president of the First National Bank of Birmingham, founder of Jeannette, Pennsylvania
• Andrew W. Mellon - American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932
• Reuben Miller - Miller, Metcalf and Perkin, Crescent Steel Works
• Maxwell K. Moorhead - son of James K. Moorhead
• Daniel Johnson Morrell - general manager of the Cambria Iron Company, member of the 40th United States Congress and 41st United States Congresses
• William Mullens
• Edwin A. Meyers - Myers, Shinkle and Company
• H. P. Patton - associated with the window glass manufacturer A. and D. H. Chambers
• Duncan Clinch Phillips - window glass millionaire, father of Duncan Phillips
• Henry Phipps, Jr. - chairman of Carnegie Brothers and Company, American entrepreneur and major philanthropist
• Robert Pitcairn - Scottish-American railroad executive who headed the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 19th century
• D. W. Ranking - physician
• Samuel Rea - an American engineer and the 9th president of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1913–25
• James Hay Reed - partner with Philander Knox in the law firm Knox and Reed, a federal judge nominated by President Benjamin Harrison
• Benjamin F. Ruff - first president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, tunnel contractor, coke salesman, real estate broker
• Marvin F. Scaife - producer of iron products through W. B. Scaife and Sons
• James M. Schoonmaker - J. M. Schoonmaker Coke Company
• James Ernest Schwartz - president of Pennsylvania Lead Company
• Frank Semple
• Christian Bernard Shea - member of Joseph Horne and Company
• Moses Bedell Suydam - M. B. Suydam and Company
• F. H. Sweet
• Benjamin Thaw - co founder of Heda Coke Company, brother of Harry Kendall Thaw
• Colonel Elias J. Unger - managed hotels along the Pennsylvania Railroad,second and last president of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, did not have a military record
• Calvin Wells - president of Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Company
• James B. White - manufacturer of manganese ore through James B. White and Company
• John F. Wilcox - civil engineer
• James H. Willock - cashier of the Second National Bank
• Joseph R. Woodwell - served on the board of directors for Deposit Bank of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Institution for Science
• William K. Woodwell - associated with Joseph R. Woodwell and company
• H. C. Yeager - dry goods and trimming wholesaler through C. Yeager and Company