United Kingdom - Ireland
Jun. 06, 1968 - Thr Mellom banking family to see founder's home in Ulster. Fifty members of the MELLON family, one of America's greatest financial dynastiees, makes a pilgramage tomorrow to the cottage in Ulster where the man who began it was born.Thomas Mellom, 5, and his parents set out in 1818 from Camp Hill Cottage, Mountjoy, near Omagh Co. Tyrone. to start life anew.Thomas became a lawyer and a judge and later founded the Mellon National Bank and Trust, which has become one of the largest in the United States.His son, Andrew, became Ambassador to London in1932.Last year the Melln family gave over L100, 000 towards the restoration and upkeep of the ancestral home.Newly thatched, furnoished in the original style and with turf fire blazing, it awats the visit of Thomas Mellon's decendents, led by Dr Matthew Mellon, 71, retired professor of art history, and present head of the family.Their total income is about the same as Ulster's gross domestic product.L550-million a year. Photo shows: The main bedroom at Camp Hill Cottage Co. Tyronne.the ancestral home of the Mellon famoly
