On a stormy winter night in 1849 in the town of West Overton, a son was born to Elizabeth and John Frick, destined to one day be the coke king of America. As a boy, the son Henry suffered from ill health, but his life on his father's farm helped him to overcome his physical ailments and he grew into a stalwart lad. After working three years as a bookkeeper in his uncle's distillery, Henry decided that the only way he would ever achieve great wealth, was to enter business for himself...