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{{short description|Wealthy American family}}
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The '''du Pont family''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|d|uː|ˈ|p|ɒ|n|t}})<ref name="MW_Collegiate">{{Citation |author=Merriam-Webster |author-link=Merriam-Webster |title=Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary |publisher=Merriam-Webster |url=http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate/ |postscript=. |access-date=2019-01-23 |archive-date=2020-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010163505/https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/subscriber/login?redirect_to=%2Fcollegiate%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref> or '''Du Pont family''' is a prominent ] family descended from ] (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the ] business. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it expanded its wealth through the ] and the ],<ref name="Dutton_1942">{{Citation |last=Dutton |first=William S. |year=1942 |title=Du Pont: One Hundred and Forty Years |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WEtZAAAAYAAJ |lccn=42011897 |postscript=.}}</ref><ref name="forbes.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/du-pont/|title=Du Pont family|work=forbes.com|access-date=9 October 2016}}</ref> with substantial interests in the ] company, ], and various other corporations.

Several former du Pont family estates are open to the public as museums, gardens or parks, such as ], ], ], ], ], ], and Goodstay.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.glunis.com/US/Wilmington/123711997780548/Friends-of-Goodstay-Gardens |title=Friends of Goodstay Gardens |access-date=2019-01-21 |archive-date=2020-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128140357/https://www.glunis.com/US/Wilmington/123711997780548/Friends-of-Goodstay-Gardens |url-status=dead }}</ref> The family's interest in horticulture was brought to the United States by their immigrant progenitors from France and reinforced in later generations by avid gardeners who married into the family. As early as 1924, the du Ponts were recognized by Charles Sprague Sargent, the famed plantsman and director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, as "a family which has made the neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware one of the chief centers of horticulture in the United States."<ref>Denise Magnani, The Winterthur Garden: Henry Francis du Pont's Romance with the Land (Wilmington: Harry N. Abrams and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1995).</ref>

The family's first American estate, Eleutherian Mills, located at ], was preserved and restored by ]. She also helped to establish the ] in 1949. In recent years, the family has continued to be known for its association with political and business ventures, as well as philanthropic causes.

Two family members were the subjects of well-publicized criminal cases. ] was convicted of murdering wrestling coach Dave Schultz.

As of 2016, the family fortune was estimated at $14.3 billion, spread across more than 3,500 living relatives.<ref name="forbes.com"/>


==History==
The '''Du Pont family''' is an ] family descended from ] (1739–1817).
], founder of the du Pont business dynasty.]]
] was the son of a Parisian watchmaker and a member of a ] ] family. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of a minor ]. In 1800, he and his sons, ] and ], migrated from France to the United States. He used the resources of their Huguenot heritage to found one of the most prominent of American families, and one of its most successful ]s, ], initially established by Éleuthère Irénée as a gunpowder manufacturer.


In 1802, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont established a ] mill on the banks of the ] near ]. The location, named ], provided all the necessities to operate the mill: a water flow sufficient to power it, available timber (mainly ] trees) that could be turned into ] fine enough to use for gunpowder, and close proximity to the ] to allow for shipments of ] and ], the other ingredients used in the manufacture of gunpowder. There were also nearby stone quarries to provide needed building materials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanroads.net/happy_trails.winter2014.htm|title=Happy Trails|work=americanroads.net|access-date=9 October 2016}}</ref>
The son of a Parisian watchmaker and a member of a ] ] family, and descendant of a minor ] on his mother's side, he and his sons, ] and ], immigrated to the United States in 1800 and used the resources of their Huguenot heritage to found one of the most prominent of ] families, and one of its most successful ]s, ], initially established by Éleuthère Irénée as a gunpowder manufacturer.


Over time, the ] grew into the largest black powder manufacturing firm in the world. The family remained in control of the company up to the 1960s,<ref>{{cite news|title=DuPont Co.'s 19 leaders since 1802|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2015/10/05/duponts-leaders/73422578/|access-date=27 October 2015|work=Wilmington News Journal}}</ref> and family trusts still own a substantial amount of the company's stock. This and other companies run by the du Pont family employed up to 10 percent of Delaware's population at its peak.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gross|first1=Scott|title=Delaware's dilemma: A fading DuPont|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/industries/2015/10/23/delawares-dilemma-fading-dupont/74329022/|access-date=27 October 2015|work=Wilmington News Journal}}</ref> In the 19th century, the Du Pont family maintained their family wealth by carefully arranged marriages between ]<ref> by Richard Conniff, From the August 2003 issue, published online August 1, 2003</ref> which, at the time, was the norm for many families.
In 1802, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont established a gunpowder mill on the banks of the Brandywine Creek near Wilmington, Delaware. The location provided all the necessities to operate the mill: a water flow sufficient to power it, available timber (mainly willow trees) that could be turned into charcoal fine enough to use for gunpowder, close proximity to the Delaware River to allow for shipments of sulfur and saltpeter, the other ingredients used in the manufacture of gunpowder. There were also nearby stone quarries to provide needed building materials. <ref></ref>


The family played a large part in politics during the 18th and 19th centuries and assisted in negotiations for the ] and the ]. Both ] and ] served as U.S. senators. ] served as Governor of Delaware.
Over time the ] grew into the largest black powder manufacturing firm in the world. Various members of the family managed the company well into the 20th century and family trusts still own a substantial amount of the company's stock. This and other companies run by the Du Pont family employ some 5 to 10 percent of Delaware's population.


The family has played an important role in historic preservation and land conservation, including helping to found the ], preserving President ]'s home ], and establishing numerous museums such as ] and the ]. The Brandywine Conservancy, founded by family member ], owns around {{convert|2350|acres|0|abbr=on}} of land in Pennsylvania and Delaware, and owns permanent conservation easements on an additional {{convert|37000|acres|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bauers|first1=Sandy|title=Conservancy gains easement Winterthur's pastoral beauty is now protected|url=http://articles.philly.com/2002-07-25/news/25358114_1_winterthur-henry-f-du-pont-easement|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915075552/http://articles.philly.com/2002-07-25/news/25358114_1_winterthur-henry-f-du-pont-easement|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2015|access-date=27 October 2015|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=25 July 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Montgomery|first1=Jeff|title=The Brandywine Conservancy: Preserving Nature, Art, and History|url=http://php.delawareonline.com/news/assets/2014/09/WIL_1001_BRANDYWINE_CONSERVANCY_.pdf|access-date=27 October 2015|work=Wilmington News Journal|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201143200/http://php.delawareonline.com/news/assets/2014/09/WIL_1001_BRANDYWINE_CONSERVANCY_.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, ]'s ] contributed over $20 million to purchase land for donation to the federal government, to form the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conservationfund.org/projects/woodlawn-property-a-new-national-park-in-delaware/|title=Delaware's First State National Monument|access-date=6 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031235716/http://www.conservationfund.org/projects/woodlawn-property-a-new-national-park-in-delaware/|archive-date=31 October 2014}}</ref>
The family played a large part in politics during the 18th and 19th centuries and assisted in negotiations for the ]. During the 19th century, the Du Pont family maintained their family wealth by carefully arranged marriages between ]<ref> by Richard Conniff, From the August 2003 issue, published online August 1, 2003</ref> which, at the time, was the norm for many families.


Beginning with ] and his sister, ], many members of the Du Pont family have been involved in the breeding and racing of ] ], as well as establishing racehorse venues and training tracks.<ref></ref> Beginning with ] and his sister, ], many members of the Du Pont family have been involved in the breeding and racing of ] ], as well as establishing racehorse venues and training tracks, including Delaware Park and Fair Hill, Maryland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emc.vetmed.vt.edu/emcmariondupontscott.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011227114730/http://emc.vetmed.vt.edu/emcmariondupontscott.html|archive-date=27 December 2001|title=Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center|publisher=University of Vermont|access-date=9 October 2016}}</ref> While most Du Ponts are members of the ],<ref name="W. Williams">{{cite book|title=Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression|first=Peter|last= W. Williams|year= 2016| isbn= 9781469626987| page =176|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|quote=The names of fashionable families who were already Episcopalian, like the Morgans, or those, like the Fricks, who now became so, goes on interminably: Aldrich, Astor, Biddle, Booth, Brown, Du Pont, Firestone, Ford, Gardner, Mellon, Morgan, Procter, the Vanderbilt, Whitney. Episcopalians branches of the Baptist Rockefellers and Jewish Guggenheims even appeared on these family trees.}}</ref> ] was a ].<ref>{{cite book|title=Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans|first=Elliott|last=Robert Barkan|year= 2001| isbn=9781576070987 |page =103|publisher=ABC-CLIO|quote=Although he was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church in order to secure a "civil status,"he was later baptized a Huguenot.}}</ref>


==Spelling of the name== ==Spelling of the name==
The usual spelling of the family name is ''du Pont'' when quoting an individual's full name and ''Du Pont'' when speaking of the family as a whole; some individual Du Ponts have chosen to spell it differently, perhaps most notably ]. However, the name of the chemical company founded by the family is commonly referred to as '']'', or, in the long form, ''].'' The stylings "du Pont" and "Du Pont" are most prevalent for the family name in published, copy-edited writings. In many publications, the styling is "du Pont" when quoting an individual's full name and "Du Pont" when speaking of the family as a whole. Some individual Du Ponts have chosen to style it differently, such as ]. The name of the chemical company founded by the family is today styled solid as "]" in the short form. The long form is styled as E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The stylings "Du Pont" and "DuPont" for the company's short name coexisted in the 20th century, but the latter is now consistently used in the company's branding.<ref name="Dutton_1942"/>{{rp|3}}


The solid styling "duPont" is less common. The ] uses it, as does the ]. William S. Dutton's mid-20th-century history of the family business<ref name="Dutton_1942"/> uses "Du Pont" both for the family mentioned generally and for the company's short name, but "du Pont" in an individual's full name, for example, "]", "]", "]", "]". For example, "when he went to General Henry du Pont with the proposal that the Du Ponts manufacture dynamite, he was answered by a blunt and unqualified 'No!'"<ref name="Dutton_1942"/>{{rp|116}})
Below is an alphabetical listing of selected notable members of the family. It is followed by a listing of their families in order of descent. The listing is intended only to illustrate the relationships among the notable members of the family and is not a complete genealogy. The only family groupings and lines of descent shown are those necessary to illustrate relationships for notable members of the family. By 1942 there were believed to be 705 direct descendants of ] and there are now well more than 2,000 living members of the family.

The first page of Dutton's monograph<ref name="Dutton_1942"/>{{rp|3}} contains the following footnote about the surname's styling. The mention of "Samuel Dupont" here refers to the 18th-century Parisian watchmaker, not to ]: "Samuel Dupont used this form of the family name , but beginning in 1763 ] signed himself 'Du Pont.' Later, he added 'de Nemours' to his name to prevent confusion with two other Duponts in the ]. Du Pont, in English, is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. In French, neither syllable is accented."<ref name="Dutton_1942"/>{{rp|3}}

] tradition for the styling of ''de'', or its inflected forms, as a surname particle, in either nobiliary or non-nobiliary form, is discussed at '']''. In non-nobiliary form, the prevalent French styling of the name is "]". Thus the choice by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to begin styling himself so during the monarchical era, hints at social ambition. Today the influence of French orthography and prerevolutionary class structure on how ] styles surnames today, is outweighed by how families and individuals so named, style themselves.


==Alphabetical list of selected descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours== ==Alphabetical list of selected descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours==


Below is an alphabetical listing of selected members of the family.
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*] (1879–1948) *] (1879–1948)
*] (1905–1996) *] (1905–1996)
*Alexis Irénée du Pont (1816–1857) *] (1816–1857)
*Alexis Irénée du Pont, Jr. (1843–1904) *] (1843–1904)
*Alexis Irénée du Pont, III (1869–1921) *] (1918–1985)
*] (1864–1935) *] (1864–1935)
*] (1798–1856) *] (1798–1856)
*] (1912–2002)
*] (1875–1962) *] (1875–1962)
*] (born 1964) *] (born 1964)
*] (1797–1869) *] (1797–1869)
*] (1859–1902) *] (born 1963)
*] (1922–2009) *] (1922–2009)
*] (1771–1834) *] (1771–1834)
*Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, II (1829–1877) *] (1908–1984)
*] (1916–1965) *] (1916–1965)
*] (1840–1902)
*Eugene du Pont, Jr. (1873–1954)
*] (1887–1950) *] (1887–1950)
*] (1840–1902)
*] (1850–1904) *] (1850–1904)
*] (1873–1942) *] (1873–1942)
*Francis Marieanne Wilson du Pont (born 1940) *] (1894–1962)
*] (born 1938)
*] (1936–2016)
*] (1914–1991)
*] (1812–1889) *] (1812–1889)
*] (1838–1926) *] (1838–1926)
*] (1880–1969) *] (1880–1969)
*] (1909–1990)
*] (1914–2001) *] (1914–2001)
*] (1938–2010) *] (1938–2010)
*] (1876–1963) *] (1876–1963)
*] (1831–1884) *] (1831–1884)
*] (1880–1952) *] (1880–1952)
*] (1894–1983) *] (1905–1983)
*] (1907–1976)
*] (1877–1958) *] (1877–1958)
*] (1907–1958)
*] (1894–1983)
*] (1739–1817) *] (1739–1817)
*] (1870–1954) *] (1870–1954)
*] (born 1935) *] (1935–2021)
*] (1911–1943) *] (1911–1943)
*] (born 1945)
*] (1915–1980)
*] (1940-2021)
*] (1922–2014)
*] (1803–1865) *] (1803–1865)
*] (1863–1930) *] (1863–1930)
*] (1767–1827) *] (1767–1827)
*] (1792–1861)
*] (1900–1998)
*] (1855–1928) *] (1855–1928)
*] (1896–1965) *] (1896–1965)
*] (1869–1946)
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==Family tree==
== Partial list ordered by descent from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ==
The following list is not a complete ], but is ordered by descent to show the familial relationships between members of the du Pont family throughout history.


{{chart top|The du Pont family tree}}
The following list is not a complete genealogy, but is ordered by descent to show the familial relationships between members of the du Pont family throughout history.
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*] (1739–1817)
**] (1767–1827)
***] (1797–1869)
***] (1803–1865)
**] (1771–1834)
***] (1798–1856)
****Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, II (1829–1877)
*****] (1864–1935)
****] (1831–1884)
*****] II (1870–1954)
*****] (1876–1963)
*****] (1880–1952)
******Pierre S. du Pont III
*******] (born 1935)
***] (1812–1889)
****] (1838–1926)
*****] (1880-1969)
*****Louisa Evelina
****] (1855-1927)
*****] (1894-1983)
*****] (1896-1965)
******Henry E.I. duPont (1927-2002)
******Evelyn
******Jean Ellen
******] (1938-2010)
******] (born 1952)
***Alexis Irénée du Pont (1816–1857)
****] (1840–1902)
*****] (1880–1962)
****] (1850–1904)
*****] (1879–1948)
******] (1905–1996)
******] (1907–1958)
******] (1911–1943)
******] (1912–2002)
*****] (1887–1950)


==See also== ==Network==

===Associates===
The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the du Pont family.
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===Businesses===
The following is a list of businesses in which the du Pont family held a controlling or otherwise substantial interest.
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*''Chartline Capital Partners''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chartline.com/ben-dupont.html|title=Ben DuPont|website=Chartline Capital Partners|access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>
*''Delaware Trust Company''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alfrediduponttrust.org/dupont/highlights.html |title=Biographic Highlights |publisher=Alfred I. du Pont Trust |access-date=August 18, 2010 |page=7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521022023/http://www.alfrediduponttrust.org/dupont/highlights.html |archive-date=May 21, 2011 }}</ref>
*]<ref name="White 2016"/>
*]<ref>{{cite news|url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E4DF1631E733A05750C1A9609C946496D6CF|date= June 1, 1915|page =1|newspaper= The New York Times |access-date=November 28, 2012|title=T.C. DU PONT BUYS EQUITABLE LIFE}}</ref>
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*]<ref>{{cite court |litigants= |vol=353 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=586 |pinpoint=588-589 |court=Supreme Court |date=1957 |url= |access-date=11 June 2021 |quote=''The complaint alleged a violation of § 7 of the Act resulting from the purchase by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1917-1919 of a 23% stock interest in General Motors Corporation...The primary issue is whether du Pont's commanding position as General Motors' supplier of automotive finishes and fabrics was achieved on competitive merit alone, or because its acquisition of the General Motors' stock, and the consequent close intercompany relationship, led to the insulation of most of the General Motors' market from free competition, with the resultant likelihood, at the time of suit, of the creation of a monopoly of a line of commerce.''|postscript= }}</ref><ref name="White 2016">{{cite book |last=White |first=Leslie A. |author-link= |date=2016 |title=Modern Capitalist Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nr9mDAAAQBAJ |location=New York City, NY |publisher=Routledge |page=378 |isbn=978-1-59874-157-5 |quote="Members of the DuPont family owned directly or indirectly 43.9 percent of the voting stock of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company. If this block of stock, by far the largest extant, acted as a unit it would give the DuPont family undisputed control of the company. The E.I. Dupont de Nemours Company owned 23 percent of the common stock of General Motors Corporation, by far the largest block of stock extant, which gave DuPont a safe working control of General Motors."}}</ref>
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*''Hickory Tree Farm & Stable''<ref>{{cite news |last=Drape |first=Joe |date=2011-11-03 |title=Following Her Heart, Owner Now Has Juvenile Favorite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/sports/breeders-cup-union-ragss-owner-trusts-instincts-and-has-favorite.html |work=New York Times |location= |access-date=2023-02-15}}</ref>
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*{{Cite book| author=Duke, Marc. | title=The du Ponts, Portrait of a Dynasty| location=New York | publisher=Saturday Review Press, E.P. Dutton & Co | year=1976 | isbn=0-8415-0429-6}} *{{Cite book| author=Gates, John D. | title=The du Pont Family| url=https://archive.org/details/dupontfamily0000gate | url-access=registration | location=New York | publisher=Doubleday & Company | year=1979 | isbn=0-385-13043-0}}
*{{Cite book| author=Dutton, William S. | title=Du Pont, One Hundred and Forty Years | location=New York | publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons | year=1942 | id= }} *{{Cite book | author=Duke, Marc. | title=The du Ponts, Portrait of a Dynasty | location=New York | publisher=Saturday Review Press, E.P. Dutton & Co | year=1976 | isbn=0-8415-0429-6 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/dupontsportraito00duke }}
*{{Cite book| author=du Pont, Pierre S. | title=Genealogy of the Du Pont Family 1739-1942| location=Wilmington | publisher=Hambleton Printing & Publishing| year=1942 | id= }} *{{Cite book| author=Carr, William H. A. | title=The du Ponts of Delaware| location=London | publisher=Frederick Muller | year=1965 }}
*{{Cite book| author=Dutton, William S. | title=Du Pont, One Hundred and Forty Years | location=New York | publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons | year=1942 }}
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Latest revision as of 18:31, 16 December 2024

Wealthy American family
du Pont family
Coat of arms of Samuel Francis Du Pont
Current regionDelaware and Pennsylvania in the United States
Earlier spellingsdu Pont de Nemours
du Pont
Etymologydu Pont, "Of the bridge"
Place of origin French American Community — France, United States
Connected families
MottoRectitudine sto
(Latin for 'Stand upright')
Estate(s)Eleutherian Mills (Wilmington)
Nemours (Wilmington)
Winterthur Mansion and Gardens (Winterthur)

The du Pont family (English: /duːˈpɒnt/) or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it expanded its wealth through the chemical industry and the automotive industry, with substantial interests in the DuPont company, General Motors, and various other corporations.

Several former du Pont family estates are open to the public as museums, gardens or parks, such as Winterthur, Nemours, Eleutherian Mills, Longwood Gardens, Gibraltar, Mt. Cuba, and Goodstay. The family's interest in horticulture was brought to the United States by their immigrant progenitors from France and reinforced in later generations by avid gardeners who married into the family. As early as 1924, the du Ponts were recognized by Charles Sprague Sargent, the famed plantsman and director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, as "a family which has made the neighborhood of Wilmington, Delaware one of the chief centers of horticulture in the United States."

The family's first American estate, Eleutherian Mills, located at Hagley Museum and Library, was preserved and restored by Louise E. du Pont Crowninshield. She also helped to establish the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1949. In recent years, the family has continued to be known for its association with political and business ventures, as well as philanthropic causes.

Two family members were the subjects of well-publicized criminal cases. John Eleuthère du Pont was convicted of murdering wrestling coach Dave Schultz.

As of 2016, the family fortune was estimated at $14.3 billion, spread across more than 3,500 living relatives.

History

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, founder of the du Pont business dynasty.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was the son of a Parisian watchmaker and a member of a Burgundian Huguenot family. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of a minor noble family. In 1800, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, migrated from France to the United States. He used the resources of their Huguenot heritage to found one of the most prominent of American families, and one of its most successful corporations, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, initially established by Éleuthère Irénée as a gunpowder manufacturer.

In 1802, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont established a gunpowder mill on the banks of the Brandywine River near Wilmington, Delaware. The location, named Eleutherian Mills, provided all the necessities to operate the mill: a water flow sufficient to power it, available timber (mainly willow trees) that could be turned into charcoal fine enough to use for gunpowder, and close proximity to the Delaware River to allow for shipments of sulfur and saltpeter, the other ingredients used in the manufacture of gunpowder. There were also nearby stone quarries to provide needed building materials.

Over time, the Du Pont company grew into the largest black powder manufacturing firm in the world. The family remained in control of the company up to the 1960s, and family trusts still own a substantial amount of the company's stock. This and other companies run by the du Pont family employed up to 10 percent of Delaware's population at its peak. In the 19th century, the Du Pont family maintained their family wealth by carefully arranged marriages between cousins which, at the time, was the norm for many families.

The family played a large part in politics during the 18th and 19th centuries and assisted in negotiations for the Treaty of Paris and the Louisiana Purchase. Both T. Coleman and Henry A. du Pont served as U.S. senators. Pierre S. du Pont, IV served as Governor of Delaware.

The family has played an important role in historic preservation and land conservation, including helping to found the National Trust for Historic Preservation, preserving President James Madison's home Montpelier, and establishing numerous museums such as Winterthur and the Delaware Museum of Natural History. The Brandywine Conservancy, founded by family member George Alexis Weymouth, owns around 2,350 acres (951 ha) of land in Pennsylvania and Delaware, and owns permanent conservation easements on an additional 37,000 acres (14,973 ha). In 2013, Lammot du Pont Copeland's Mt. Cuba Center contributed over $20 million to purchase land for donation to the federal government, to form the First State National Historical Park.

Beginning with William du Pont, Jr. and his sister, Marion duPont Scott, many members of the Du Pont family have been involved in the breeding and racing of Thoroughbred racehorses, as well as establishing racehorse venues and training tracks, including Delaware Park and Fair Hill, Maryland. While most Du Ponts are members of the Episcopal Church, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a Huguenot.

Spelling of the name

The stylings "du Pont" and "Du Pont" are most prevalent for the family name in published, copy-edited writings. In many publications, the styling is "du Pont" when quoting an individual's full name and "Du Pont" when speaking of the family as a whole. Some individual Du Ponts have chosen to style it differently, such as Samuel Francis Du Pont. The name of the chemical company founded by the family is today styled solid as "DuPont" in the short form. The long form is styled as E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The stylings "Du Pont" and "DuPont" for the company's short name coexisted in the 20th century, but the latter is now consistently used in the company's branding.

The solid styling "duPont" is less common. The Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children uses it, as does the duPont Registry. William S. Dutton's mid-20th-century history of the family business uses "Du Pont" both for the family mentioned generally and for the company's short name, but "du Pont" in an individual's full name, for example, "Éleuthère Irénée du Pont", "Henry du Pont", "Alfred Victor du Pont", "Lammot du Pont". For example, "when he went to General Henry du Pont with the proposal that the Du Ponts manufacture dynamite, he was answered by a blunt and unqualified 'No!'")

The first page of Dutton's monograph contains the following footnote about the surname's styling. The mention of "Samuel Dupont" here refers to the 18th-century Parisian watchmaker, not to his 19th-century descendant: "Samuel Dupont used this form of the family name , but beginning in 1763 his son signed himself 'Du Pont.' Later, he added 'de Nemours' to his name to prevent confusion with two other Duponts in the French Chamber of Deputies. Du Pont, in English, is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. In French, neither syllable is accented."

French orthographic tradition for the styling of de, or its inflected forms, as a surname particle, in either nobiliary or non-nobiliary form, is discussed at Nobiliary particle § France. In non-nobiliary form, the prevalent French styling of the name is "Dupont". Thus the choice by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours to begin styling himself so during the monarchical era, hints at social ambition. Today the influence of French orthography and prerevolutionary class structure on how English orthography styles surnames today, is outweighed by how families and individuals so named, style themselves.

Alphabetical list of selected descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

Below is an alphabetical listing of selected members of the family.

Family tree

The following list is not a complete genealogy, but is ordered by descent to show the familial relationships between members of the du Pont family throughout history.

The du Pont family tree
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Victor Marie du PontÉleuthère Irénée du Pont
Charles I. du PontSamuel Francis Du PontAlfred V. du PontHenry du PontAlexis Irénée du Pont
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont IILammot du Pont IAntoine Biderman du PontWilliam du PontHenry A. du PontEugene du PontFrancis Gurney du Pont
Alfred I. du PontPierre S. du PontIrénée du PontLammot du Pont IIAntoine Biderman du Pont, Jr.
(brother of T. Coleman du Pont, who was the father of Francis Victor du Pont)		Marion duPont ScottWilliam du Pont, Jr.Louise E. du Pont CrowninshieldHenry Francis du PontEugene du Pont, Jr.Amy Elizabeth du Pont Francis Irénée du PontA. Felix du Pont E. Paul du Pont
Esther D. du PontPierre S. du Pont IIIVictorine du Pont HomseyJohn Eleuthère du PontWilliam du Pont IIIRuth Ellen du PontEthel du PontA. Felix du Pont, Jr.Lydia Chichester du PontRichard Chichester du PontAlice du
Pont Mills
Pierre S. du Pont IV
Ben duPontEleuthère I. du Pont


Network

Associates

The following is a list of figures closely aligned with or subordinate to the du Pont family.

Businesses

The following is a list of businesses in which the du Pont family held a controlling or otherwise substantial interest.

Philanthropy and nonprofit organizations

Buildings, estates and historic landmarks

References

  1. Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, archived from the original on 2020-10-10, retrieved 2019-01-23.
  2. ^ Dutton, William S. (1942), Du Pont: One Hundred and Forty Years, Charles Scribner's Sons, LCCN 42011897.
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  4. "Friends of Goodstay Gardens". Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  5. Denise Magnani, The Winterthur Garden: Henry Francis du Pont's Romance with the Land (Wilmington: Harry N. Abrams and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1995).
  6. "Happy Trails". americanroads.net. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  7. "DuPont Co.'s 19 leaders since 1802". Wilmington News Journal. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. Gross, Scott. "Delaware's dilemma: A fading DuPont". Wilmington News Journal. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  9. Go Ahead, Kiss Your Cousin by Richard Conniff, From the August 2003 issue, published online August 1, 2003
  10. Bauers, Sandy (25 July 2002). "Conservancy gains easement Winterthur's pastoral beauty is now protected". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  11. Montgomery, Jeff. "The Brandywine Conservancy: Preserving Nature, Art, and History" (PDF). Wilmington News Journal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  12. "Delaware's First State National Monument". Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  13. "Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center". University of Vermont. Archived from the original on 27 December 2001. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  14. W. Williams, Peter (2016). Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression. University of North Carolina Press. p. 176. ISBN 9781469626987. The names of fashionable families who were already Episcopalian, like the Morgans, or those, like the Fricks, who now became so, goes on interminably: Aldrich, Astor, Biddle, Booth, Brown, Du Pont, Firestone, Ford, Gardner, Mellon, Morgan, Procter, the Vanderbilt, Whitney. Episcopalians branches of the Baptist Rockefellers and Jewish Guggenheims even appeared on these family trees.
  15. Robert Barkan, Elliott (2001). Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. ABC-CLIO. p. 103. ISBN 9781576070987. Although he was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church in order to secure a "civil status,"he was later baptized a Huguenot.
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  17. Hoffecker, Carol E. (2000). Familiar Relations: The Du Ponts & the University of Delaware. University of Delaware Publishing Press. p. 37. ISBN 0-9656848-1-4.
  18. "Ben DuPont". Chartline Capital Partners. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
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  20. ^ White, Leslie A. (2016). Modern Capitalist Culture. New York City, NY: Routledge. p. 378. ISBN 978-1-59874-157-5. Members of the DuPont family owned directly or indirectly 43.9 percent of the voting stock of the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company. If this block of stock, by far the largest extant, acted as a unit it would give the DuPont family undisputed control of the company. The E.I. Dupont de Nemours Company owned 23 percent of the common stock of General Motors Corporation, by far the largest block of stock extant, which gave DuPont a safe working control of General Motors.
  21. "T.C. DU PONT BUYS EQUITABLE LIFE". The New York Times. June 1, 1915. p. 1. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  22. United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 353 U.S. 586, 588-589 (Supreme Court 1957) ("The complaint alleged a violation of § 7 of the Act resulting from the purchase by E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in 1917-1919 of a 23% stock interest in General Motors Corporation...The primary issue is whether du Pont's commanding position as General Motors' supplier of automotive finishes and fabrics was achieved on competitive merit alone, or because its acquisition of the General Motors' stock, and the consequent close intercompany relationship, led to the insulation of most of the General Motors' market from free competition, with the resultant likelihood, at the time of suit, of the creation of a monopoly of a line of commerce.").
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  24. Girdler, Allan (2002). The Harley-Davidson and Indian Wars. St Paul, Minnesota: MotorBooks International. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-7603-1353-4.
  25. "Biographic Highlights". Alfred I. du Pont Trust. p. 7. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2023.
  26. Domhoff, G. William (2011). Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats and the Liberal-Labor Coalition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8047-7452-9.
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  32. Benton, Sarah Ann (2015-06-22). Franklin. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439652008.
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  43. Cummings, Mary (2020-12-22). "High Style in the Gilded Age: Ruth Wales du Pont". Southampton History Museum. Retrieved 2022-08-10.

Bibliography

  • Mosley, Leonard (1980). Blood Relations: The Rise and Fall of the du Pont's of Delaware. London: Hutchinson.
  • Gates, John D. (1979). The du Pont Family. New York: Doubleday & Company. ISBN 0-385-13043-0.
  • Duke, Marc. (1976). The du Ponts, Portrait of a Dynasty. New York: Saturday Review Press, E.P. Dutton & Co. ISBN 0-8415-0429-6.
  • Carr, William H. A. (1965). The du Ponts of Delaware. London: Frederick Muller.
  • Dutton, William S. (1942). Du Pont, One Hundred and Forty Years. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • du Pont, Pierre S. (1942). Genealogy of the Du Pont Family 1739-1942. Wilmington: Hambleton Printing & Publishing.

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