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Frances Vinton Lindley (S&B 1933)

St. Bernard’s School. Groton School*. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Phi Beta Kappa. Zeta Psi. Elizabthan Club. New York City University (Jurisprudence degree).[4] Nicholas Club. St. John’s University.[4]

Long time visitor to Montauk.[6]

20 Years - Headquarters of the American Red Cross.

But Mrs. Lindley, an early environmentalist, rallied the community and at the same time helped found Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

Eventually, the family was granted a conditional reprieve in the form of a 35-year lease, which expired in 2010.[7]

1970’s - the county bought the surrounding 1,000 acres to the Army Blockhouse from the federal government with plans to have a developer subdivide it and build up to 1800 houses there.[7]

In 1950 he and his third wife, Hilda, who he had met whil both worked at Tide, and advertising trade magazine, bought and renovated the former Army blockhouse at Indian Field in Montauk where Mrs. Lindley, who died in 1980, and their three children continued to spend summers. [6]

WW2 - 1944 - Army built the Army blockhouse, as a lookout station.

Mr. Lindley spent summers in Southampton as a child and first came to Montauk in the 1930s during his second marriage, to Eleanor Tweed, staying at the Ditch Plain residence of his father-in-law, the Wall Street lawyer Harrison Tweed. [6]

Each of Mr. Lindley’s marriages ended in divorce. The first was to Grace Cook. In recent years he spent his vacation in Montauk and at the Wanscott house of his daughter, Diana.[6]

Earlier he had worked as a guidance counselor fo distrubed youth and in magazine publishing and the law.[6]

28 Jun 1933 - Married Miss Grace Bigelow Cook.

1933 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch

Died 28 May 1983, from Heart Attack. Age 72.

Note: Possible connections to the Montauk Project, that started in the 1950s with ITT and Krupp AG Germany providing additional funding. ??? Research … Preston B. Nichols.

[1] - Book - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Book - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - WikiTree.com - Frances Vinton Lindley (S&B 1933)

[5] - Article - The Booklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) June 29, 1933

[6] - “The East Hampton Star” Jun 9, 1983: Obituary: Francis V. Lindley

[7] - End of Lease Was End of Era

[8] - Book - The Montauk Project / Experiments In Time by Preston B. Nichols with Peter Moon.