The decorations that define Holidays at Hagley reflect a century and a half of du Pont family life, from the daughters of E.I du Pont de Nemours giving each other handmade embroidery to his great ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — The DuPont family made quite a bang in Delaware. In 1802, E.I. du Pont de Nemours, son of a wealthy French immigrant, founded a gunpowder factory along the banks of the ...

• Alfred V. du Pont, 1834-1850: Eldest son of E.I. du Pont, he was a scientist and inventor. • Henry du Pont, 1850-1889: The founder's second son and the longest-serving leader of the business ...

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.

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… ...

A 10½-acre estate in Delaware owned by the family of former Phillies owner Ruly Carpenter and once owned by the founder of DuPont has hit the market for $3.5 million. The Brandywine Valley ...

The estate – named Sandaway – was built by Alexis Felix DuPont, son of the inventor of smokeless gunpowder and father of the co-founder of the company that became US Airways.

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