Harry Payne Whitney (S&B 1894)
Businessman. Groton School. Yale University. Skull and Bones. He Boule. Psi Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa.
Member New York Zoological Society.[2] Contributor to Yale Endowment Fund.[2]
Director of Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate Company, Metropolitan Opera Company, Montana Power Company, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation, Metals Exploration Company, and Wright-Martin Aircraft Company.[2]
Breeder of race horses and polo ponies; horses won at various times the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stake, and other notable races in this country and abroad; Vice-President Westchester Racing Association Since 1925 (director since 1905).[2]
1923 - Incorporator (1923) and director of “The Creek” Golf Club, Inc., Locust Valley, N. Y.[2]
1922 - Provided funds for Whitney South Sea Expedition” sent out by American Museum of Natural History.[2]
Since it incorporation in 1910 - Whitney Realty Company.[2]
1909 - Captain of American polo team in international polo matches in England at Meadow brook, Long Island, 1911 and 1913 and of “Big Four” polo team for several years.[2]
Since 1904 - Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses.[2]
1900 to 1924 - Member of selection committee of United States Polo Association.[2]
1899 to 1930 - Director of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.
1899 to 1900 - President of the New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company.
Identified with the Guggenheim Exploration Company
1897 to 1898 - Law office of Elihu Root (Colleague of President William Howard Taft (S&B1878)
25 Aug 1896 - Married in Newport, R. I., Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875 to 1942. honorary M.A. New York University 1922), sculptress;daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Rail road baron Cornelius Vanderbilt . Honorary M.A. Hobart 1889 and Yale 1894) and Alice Claypoole (Gwynne) Vanderbilt, and sister of William H. Vanderbilt, ‘93, Cornelius Vanderbilt, ‘95 ….[2]
Alfred G. Vanderbilt (S&B 1899). Died on the torpedoed RMS Lusitania. Didn’t get the message in time!
… and Reginald C.Vanderbilt, ‘02. Mrs. Whitney was decorated with GrandCross of the Order of Alfonso XII in 1930, in recognition ofher statue of Columbus overlooking the harbor of Palos,Spain. Children: Flora Payne (Mrs. G. MacCulloch Miller); Cornelius Vanderbilt, ‘22; and Barbara, the wife of Barklie McKee Henry (B.A. Harvard 1924)[2]
1894 to 1887 - Travelled abroad.
1894 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.
Died 26 Oct 1930, from Pneumonia. Age 58.
Note:
Father, William Collins Whitney (S&B1863), 31st United States Secretary of the Navy by President Grover Cleveland (8 Mar 1885 to 4 Mar 1889) … Search mind map.
Brother, William Payne Whitney (S&B 1898) and his son, John Hay Whitney (S&K 1926) … Search Mind map.
Children:
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Flora Payne Whitney (27 Jul 1897 to 18 Jul 1986. Aged 88). 1925 - Married Roderick Tower. Div 1925. Tower Found shot dead (“Suicide”) 25 Sep 1961. Married 2917 to George MacCulloch Miller III. Died 10 Seo 1972. Age 85.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney - Search mind map.
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Barbara Whitney
Father, William Collins Whitney (S&B 1863 B.A., LL.D. 1888) of General James Scollay Whitney and Laurinda (Collins) Whitney, of Springfield and Boston, Mass. Mother, Flora(Payne) Whitney; daughter of Henry B. Payne (B.A. Hamilton 1832) and Mary (Perry) Payne, of Cleveland, Ohio. Yale relatives include: Payne Whitne (S&B 1898 brother)**; Arthur B.Randolph, ex-06 (half brother); Oliver H. Payne, ‘63 and Henry W. Payne, ‘67 (uncles); and Harry Payne Bingham,‘10 (cousin).[2]
Note: 1860, President Buchanan appointed General James Scollay Whitney Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston. He was removed, however, by the incoming Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.[6]
[3] - Wiki - Harry Payne Whitney (S&B 1894)
[5] - Find a Grave.com - Harry Payne Whitney (S&B 1894)
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