The du Pont family's wealth remains today, though according to a 2020 listing by Forbes magazine, the family's worth of an estimated $16 billion is spread among about 4,000 heirs.

When he wrote a letter to Alexander Hamilton in 1801 asking about an investment in property along the Brandywine for the site of a mill, E.I. du Pont was building a relationship with the man consid… ...

The Dupont family looks out for one another in more ways than one. Abi Dupont (far right), 13, was born with congetial nephrotic syndrome, a disorder that caused her kidneys to function improperly.

A family feud forced him out of the company he had helped rescue. That, and the death of Alicia caused him to reach out to an old family friend, Jessie Ball, 20 years his junior, and they married.

The old peaks The Dow closed above 14,000 points for the first time on July 19, 2007. Its final close, 14,000.41, was right on the nose, and was boosted by solid earnings across a wide array of ...

Top 10 for Wednesday: 10 Things to Know About A. I. Dupont: Saturday Sept. 20 is Community Day at Nemours, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, from 10 a.… ...

A du Pont family hunting property in Maryland is going on the market for the first time in nearly a century, asking $14.8 million. The 850-acre waterfront property is located outside Rock Hall, Md ...

As a boy with polio, John Porreca tried to prove he could do "anything anybody else did." He came close.

The mansion survived relatively unscathed, but its du Pont family members moved out. The Crowninshields came to it after the mills closed in the early 1920s but used it only for a month or so in ...