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Thomas Mellon Evans (September 8, 1910 - July 17, 1997) was a financier who was one of the early corporate raiders in American business〔(Yale University reprint of January 5, 2011 Washington Post article )〕 as well as a philanthropist and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who won the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.〔(Sports Illustrated - May 3, 1981 )〕 ==Pioneer takeover specialist== Born James Evans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Mellon Evans and Martha Jarnagin, his mother had his name changed to honor his recently deceased father in 1913. Evans's great-grandmother Elinor was the sister of Thomas Mellon, the father of the wealthy financier, Andrew W. Mellon.〔''The White Sharks of Wall Street'': by Diana B. Henriques〕 Orphaned as a young boy, Thomas was sent to stay with his mother's relatives in Tennessee before returning to Pittsburgh to live with his mother's sister. She and her husband were affluent enough to provide Thomas with a quality education and he graduated from the Shady Side Academy private school in 1927 〔(Pittsburgh Press - June 17, 1927 )〕 and Yale University in 1931.〔(Sarasota Herald-Tribune - July 19, 1997 )〕 For a few years after finishing university, Thomas Evans held a clerical job at Gulf Oil, owned at the time by the Mellon family. Ambitious, he saved as much money as he could from his salary and together with a small inheritance, set out on his own. In 1939, he was able to purchase the bankrupt H. K. Porter, Inc., a manufacturer of light-duty railroad locomotives that he would diversify into the steel, hardware, and construction material business before converting the company into a holding corporation that would, during Evans time, take over more than eighty U.S. companies.〔(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - July 23,2000 )〕 Among his major acquisitions was the 1959 takeover of Crane Co. of Chicago, then a large valve and plumbing fixture manufacturer. In April 1959 Evans was appointed Chairman of the Board and Chief executive officer of the company. 〔(Wall Street Journal - April 29, 1959 )〕 As of the end of 2011, his son Robert is Chairman of the Board of Crane Co.〔(Crane.co website )〕 and remains the largest individual shareholder in the company.〔(Yahoo Finance - retrieved November 22, 2011 )〕 The July 23, 2000, edition of the ''Pittsburgh Post Gazette'' said that Thomas Mellon Evans was "arguably one of the seminal figures of 20th-century business."〔(''Pittsburgh Post Gazette'' - July 23,2000 )〕 Evans' story was told by Diana B. Henriques in her book ''The White Sharks of Wall Street: Thomas Mellon Evans and the Original Corporate Raiders'' published by Scribner in 2000 (ISBN 0684833999 - Library of Congress Online Catalog). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Mellon Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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