San Antonio College Library

On December 14, 1739, a second son was born to a Parisian watchmaker, named Samuel Dupont, and his wife. He was called Pierre Samuel, and he was to found one of the most famous dynasties in the world. Pierre Samuel came to the United States on New Year's Day, 1800, penniless, after surviving a harrowing voyage with his two sons. From those rather humble beginnings grew one of history's greatest manufacturing empires. Marc Duke has told the story of...

"In 1978, with a nest egg of more than 5 billion dollars, the Mellons were America's richest family. The Mellons is an irreverent, unauthorized, but not unkind account of this family's rise, from the humble circumstances of birth of the dynasty's founder, Judge Thomas Mellon, on a potato farm in Ireland in 1813, to super-opulence through the Gulf Oil Corporation"--Amazon.

"The Farnese family was an influential family in Renaissance Italy. Its most important members included Pope Paul III and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and the titles of Duke of Parma and Piacenza and of Castro were held by various members of the family. A number of important architectural works and antiquities are associated with the Farnese family, either through construction or acquisition. Buildings include the Palazzo Farnese in Rome and the Villa...

In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate...

"This is a book not about Napoléon, but about his family and what became of it, after 1814"--Preface.

Chiefly a record of the life and descendants of Washington Duke. He was born 20 Dec 1820 to Taylor Duke and Dicey Jones. He married Mary Caroline Clinton in 1842. They were the parents of two children. She died in 1847. He married Artelia Toney in Dec 1852. They were the parents of three children. She died in 1858. He died 8 May 1905.