Editing Andrew Mellon (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Mrs. Nora McMullen Melon LCCN2014686053.jpg|thumb|right|Nora McMullen Mellon]]
In the early 1880s, Mellon had a serious relationship with Fannie Larimer Jones, but he broke off the relationship after learning that she was suffering from [[tuberculosis]]. After this experience, Mellon refrained from courting women for several years.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 77–78</ref> In 1898, while traveling with Frick and Frick's wife to Europe, Mellon met Nora McMullen, a nineteen-year-old Englishwoman of Ulster Scots ancestry. Mellon visited McMullen's home of [[Hertford Castle]] in 1898 and 1899, and, after a period of courtship, the couple married in 1900.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 142–148, 151</ref> Nora gave birth to a daughter, [[Ailsa Mellon Bruce|Ailsa]], in 1901.<ref>Cannadine (2006), p. 155,</ref> Nora disliked living in Pittsburgh, and she was unhappy in her marriage.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 152, 156</ref> By the end of 1903, she had begun an affair with Alfred George Curphey, who would also later be involved with the wife of [[George Vivian, 4th Baron Vivian]].<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 168–172, 191</ref> Mellon and Nora eventually reconciled, and in 1907 she gave birth to a son, [[Paul Mellon|Paul]].<ref name="Cannadine 2006, p. 184"/> The reconciliation proved short-lived, as Nora took up with Curphey again in 1908 and requested a divorce the following year.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 193, 196</ref> To avoid a public scandal, Andrew reluctantly agreed to a separation in 1909.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 197–198</ref> Seeking to hold divorce proceedings privately before a judge rather than publicly before a jury, in 1911 Mellon convinced the Pennsylvania legislature to amend a law that had required a [[jury trial]] in divorce proceedings.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 205–206</ref> In response, Nora attacked Mellon in the press, and the divorce proceedings were widely covered by the media. Nora went so far to contest the divorce that she made an appeal to King George of England and parliament. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=MCB19230330-01.2.51&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ | title=The Moffat County Bell March 30, 1923 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection }}</ref> In 1912, Mellon and Nora finally agreed on a divorce settlement, largely on Mellon's terms.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 207–211</ref>

Mellon did not remarry. Nora lived in Pittsburgh for several years before eventually settling in the [[Hudson Valley]], and the two children alternated living with either parent.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 264, 304</ref> In 1923, Nora married Harvey Arthur Lee, a British-born antiques dealer 14 years her junior.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 11, 1928 |title=Milestones: Jun. 11, 1928 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881064,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110131004/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881064,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 10, 2008 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=October 18, 2013}}</ref> Two years after the Lees' divorce in 1928, Nora Lee resumed the surname Mellon, at the request of her son, Paul.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,789247,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090902234126/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,789247,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 2, 2009 |date=August 18, 1930 |title=Names make news |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=March 30, 2009}}</ref> In the 1920s, while Mellon served as Secretary of the Treasury, Ailsa was courted by several influential men, including [[Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck]], [[Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan|Robert Horne]], and [[Gelasio Caetani]]. In 1926, in the "greatest society event that the nation's capital had witnessed" since before World War I, Ailsa married [[David K. E. Bruce]], son of Democratic Senator [[William Cabell Bruce]] of Maryland.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 330–332</ref> After attending [[Yale University]] and the [[University of Cambridge]], Paul briefly worked at Mellon National Bank.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 446–447</ref> He later settled in Virginia, becoming a well-known philanthropist.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 610, 617</ref> Mellon's nephew, [[Richard King Mellon]], succeeded Andrew as the head of the Mellon financial empire.<ref>Cannadine (2006), pp. 613–614</ref>