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Sarah Mellon
Sarah Cordelia Mellon
(1903–1965) was the daughter of Jennie (King) and
Richard B. Mellon
, and the niece of
Andrew W. Mellon
(
Secretary of the Treasury
during the
Great Depression
). She was one of the heirs to the Mellon fortune, including
Mellon Bank
and major investments in
Gulf Oil
and
Alcoa
. In 1957, when
Fortune
prepared its first list of the
wealthiest Americans
, it estimated that Sarah Mellon, her brother
Richard King Mellon
, and her cousins
Ailsa Mellon-Bruce
and
Paul Mellon
were all amongst the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes of between 400 and 700 million dollars each.
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