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Harry Payne Whitney, a yachtsman and former businessman, died Sept. 18 after heart surgery at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Me. He was 60 years old.Mr. Whitney maintained a home in Manhattan, but lived much of the last 10 years on his boat in ports in Long Island, Maine and North Carolina.
19 de ene. de 2024 · Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986) Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992) Barbara Whitney (1903–1983, m. 1960 George W. Headley). Harry Whitney died of pneumonia in 1930, at age 58, leaving his widow an estate valued at $72 million.
13 de mar. de 2024 · In another photograph is his father, the late Harry Payne Whitney, characteristically wearing the black bowler hat which was almost a trademark for him around the race tracks. There is a picture of Channing, the elderly man who first interested Whitney in his Canadian mining project and who died this year at the age of 93.
Harry Whitney ärvde ett stort stall från sin far, inklusive hästar som Artful och Hamburg, och 1915 etablerade han ett stuteri i Lexington, Kentucky. Han utvecklade den amerikanska poloponnyn genom att korsa quarterhästar med fullblodsston. Han var ledande ägare i USA vid åtta tillfällen och födde upp nästan tvåhundra stakesvinnare.
His son Harry Payne Whitney inherited the house and estate, and eventually Harry's son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney would go on to inherit it, demolish this house and build a new one in its place, designed by Billy Delano c. 1940.
28 de abr. de 2011 · Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, the richest man in America at the turn of the century, and the wife of Harry Payne Whitney, scion of one of New York’s wealthiest families. Early in her marriage, she defied social expectations by becoming a sculptor and a major patron of contemporary American art.
Harry Payne Whitney studied at Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts then attended Yale University, graduating with a law degree in 1894. He was a member of the Skull and Bones. In 1904, H. P. Whitney inherited $24,000,000 from his father and in 1917 approximately $12,000,000 from his uncle, Oliver Hazard Payne.
