Charles D. Lanier
American Banker. Russell Military Academy (founded by William Huntingdon Russell, co-founder of Skull and Bones). Metropolitan Club. The Union Club. The Union League Club. The Knickerbocker Club. New York Yacht Club. The Pilgrims.[2]
A great friend of the late Pierpont Morgan, Mr. Lanier was a member of the Corsair Club, which made its headquarters on Mr. Morgan’s yacht and there enjoyed each other’s society at luncheons and dinners that made all envious who head of them…[2]
Took part in many large banking transactions of his day.[2]
From 1878 - Provided financing to Thomas Edison’s development of the electric light.[4]
Partner by 1860 (23yrs old) - Winslow, Lanier & Company, becoming head of the firm.
Married Sarah E. Egleston (until her death in 1898). She was the neice of Kitty Lanier Lawrance, Mrs William Averell Harriman (S&B 1913). Divorced 1929.
Died 6 Mar 1926, from Not Known. Age 89.
Note:
Charles Lanier, who father’s loans to the State of Indiana enabled the equipping of it’s Union soldiers during the Civil War. Member of J.P.Morgan’s “Corsair Group” that met on Morgan’s yacht.
Grandfather of Charles Lawrence (Wolf’s Head 1905.)
Daughter Sarah Eggleston Lanier (1862–1893), who married Francis Cooper Lawrance Jr. (1858-1904).[16] After her death in 1893, Lawrance married Susan Ridgway Willing, the sister of Ava Lowle Willing (the wife of John Jacob Astor IV - Divorced Approx 2yrs before Astor died on the RMS Titanic.)
When John Washington, great-grandfather of the first President of the United States, came from England in 1655, he was accompanies by several friends, chief among them Thomas Lanier, a Huguenot refugee from France. They settled in Westmoreland County, Va., and Thomas Lanier married John Washington’s daughter. Charles Lanier was desceded from this couple.[2]
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Charles D. Lanier
[[2] - CHARLES LANIER, 80 ‘ BANKER, DIES AT; Senior Member of Winsow, Lanier & Co. for 63 Years Is Victim of Apoplexy. CAME OF A NOTED FAMILY Had a Common Ancestor With Washington — In Many Big Transactions-Funeral Tomorrow..
[[3] - Father … NY Times, 31 Aug 1881. The Funeral of James F. D. Lanier] https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1881/08/31/98918767.html?pageNumber=5
[4] - Edward Dean Adams - Resolution in Memory - May 20, 1931
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