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Henry built Whitehall, a “….75-room, 100,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion…as a wedding present for his wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. The couple used the home as a winter retreat from 1902 until Flagler's death in 1913, establishing the Palm Beach season for the wealthy of the Gilded Age.” [ 9 ]
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio.He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.
The Flagler family was a prominent business family in the United States. Pages in category "Flagler family" ... Henry Flagler; M. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham; W.
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Henry Flagler was the mastermind, building baseball fields on the grounds of his Palm Beach hotels for his rich, winter guests to watch players who would one day star in the Negro Leagues.
Kirkside, St. Augustine. Lawrence Lewis Jr. was born on July 6, 1918, in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Louise Wise Lewis Francis and Lawrence Lewis Sr.When Lewis was an infant, his family moved to St. Augustine, Florida, and lived at Kirkside, Henry Flagler’s former home, which Lewis’s mother had inherited as Flagler’s niece.
A pre-mass-media idol, of sorts, Joseph Jefferson had friends in high places — Standard Oil partner, railroad tycoon and Palm Beach developer Henry Flagler among them — but rare was the day ...
Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties – The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and WHAS Television. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. Robert Worth Bingham , using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, herself the widow of ...