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Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney (1903-1982). [13] Harry Whitney died in 1930 at age fifty-eight. [1] [14] He and his wife are interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx. Time magazine reported that at the time of his death, Harry Payne Whitney's estate was appraised by New York State for tax collection purposes at $62,808,000 net. [15]
At age 21, on August 25, 1896, she married the extremely wealthy sportsman Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930). [1] [9] A banker and investor, Whitney was the son of politician William Collins Whitney and Flora Payne, the daughter of former U.S. Senator from Ohio Henry B. Payne, and sister to a Standard Oil Company magnate.
Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930): husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; Edith Stuyvesant Gerry (1873–1958): wife of George Washington Vanderbilt II; Virginia Fair Vanderbilt (1875–1935): 1st wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; George G. McMurtry (1876–1958): 4th husband of Teresa Sarah Margaret Fabbri
Born in Old Westbury, New York, he was the only son of the wealthy and socially prominent Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1932) and his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942). He had a younger sister, Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney (1903–1982), and an elder sister, Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986). [1]
William Payne Whitney was born on March 20, 1876, to William Collins Whitney (1841–1904) and Flora Payne (1842–1893). His siblings included: elder brother, Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930), Pauline Payne Whitney (1874–1916), and younger sister, Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968). [1]
Between the late 1910s and early 1920s, Hutchinson sold Foshalee to Harry Payne Whitney, a wealthy yachtsman and horse breeder. Whitney died October 26, 1930, and his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt . kept Foshalee in operation until 1938.
The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by architect Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White .
Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), who married Harry Payne Whitney. [7] She was an artist who founded the Whitney Museum. [8] Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877–1915), a businessman who died aboard the RMS Lusitania. [9] Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925), an avid equestrian. [10]