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Richard Thornton Wilson (c. 1829 – November 26, 1910) was a multimillionaire American investment banker known for being the father of five children who all married into prominent families during the Gilded Age of New York.
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Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. (September 11, 1866 – December 29, 1929) was an American investment banker and capitalist who was a prominent figure in thoroughbred horse racing in the early decades of the 20th century.
- December 29, 1929 (aged 63), New York City, New York, US
American investment banker and capitalist who was a prominent figure in thoroughbred horse racing in the early decades of the 20th century. Wilson was born in New York City, one of five surviving children of Richard Thornton Wilson Sr. (1829–1910) and Melissa Clementine Johnston (1831–1908).
Richard Thornton Wilson Jr. ’46. Thornton died June 5, 1996, at his home, South Wind, in Newport, R.I. He had been troubled by emphysema for several years. He was active in many social clubs in Newport and NYC, where he grew up. He attended Buckley School in NYC and Brooks School in North Andover, Mass.
About Richard Thornton Wilson. American investment banker. Wilson was born in Habersham County, Georgia near Gainesville, in about 1829, to William Wilson (d. 1849) and Rachel Wilson (1797–1870), a Scottish tanner and shoemaker. After the death of his father in 1849, he needed to find employment, so he went to Dalton, Georgia and began ...
25 de ene. de 2022 · Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr. was born to wealth in the city of New York in 1866, very shortly after General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. His father hailed from Habersham County, Georgia and had been a Confederate commissary general.
Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr, knew how to live. A wealthy New York banker, he owned champion racehorses and Palmetto Bluff, an 18,000 acre hunting retreat in South Carolina. His wife, Marion, did not share his zeal for winters in Palmetto Bluff where her husband loved to ride, hunt, fish and raise cattle.
