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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]
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]
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.
Flora Payne Whitney died on February 5, 1893, at age fifty-two. Two years later, in 1896, William Whitney remarried to widow Sibyl Randolph (née May). He gave his home at 2 West 57th Street to son Harry and his new bride Gertrude, and acquired for his new wife a residence at 871 Fifth Avenue at 68th Street in New York City , and commissioned ...
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
Flora Payne Whitney was born on July 27, 1897, and raised in Manhattan. Her father was Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930), a sportsman and heir to the Whitney family fortune, and her mother was sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), heiress to a substantial part of the Vanderbilt family fortune.
Among his siblings was Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), who married Harry Payne Whitney, [2] Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877–1915), [3] and Gladys Moore Vanderbilt (1886–1965), who married Count László Széchenyi.
Whitney was the son of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt. Before their Reno divorce, on grounds of incompatibility, in 1929, [19] they had two children: Harry Payne Whitney II (1924-1985), who married Alexandra Ewing (1927-2014), the daughter of Gifford Cochran Ewing and Frances Riker. [20] and later Andrea R. Whitney [21]