The Currituck Shooting Club

MEMBERS WITH DATES OF QUALIFICATION TO MEMBERSHIP
NAMES	DATES	COMMENTS
Stephen (Titus) Tabor/Taber	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	US Congressman. He was born Stephen Titus Taber in Dover, New York on Mar. 7, 1821, to the United States Representative from New York, Thomas Taber II and his wife Phebe Titus Taber and he had one brother, Samuel Titus Taber who was born in 1824 seen below). He was educated in local public schools and completed preparatory studies. After his education, he relocated to Queens, Queens County, New York, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. On May 27, 1845, he married Rosetta M. Townsend and the couple would have six children together (Samuel T. Taber was born in 1847, William Titus Taber was born in 1851, Mary Adelaide Taber was born in 1851, Gertrude Townsend Taber was born in 1858, Thomas Townsend Taber, Sr. was born in 1863, and Owen Taber was born in 1866). He then entered public service and was elected as a Member of the New York State Assembly representing Queens County, New York's 1st District and serving in that position in 1860 and again in 1861. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected. A member of the Democratic Party, he then served the State of New York's 1st District (Thirty-Ninth Congress and Fortieth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from 1865 to 1869. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1869, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Henry Augustus Reeves. While serving in the United States Congress he was Chairman of the Committees on Public Lands and Expenditures. After leaving public service he began several business pursuits. He assisted in the organizing of the Long Island North Shore Transportation Company in 1861 and served as the President of the company for several years. He was also the Director of the Long Island Rail Road Company and was the first President of the Roslyn Savings Bank in Roslyn, New York, in 1876 and again served in that position for a number of years. He passed away from Bright's disease in New York City on April 23, 1886, at the age of 65 [see obituary and will]. He was buried in the Roslyn Cemetery, in Roslyn, New York, beside his wife Rosetta who passed away March 4, 1883, at the age of 60. At his death, he left an estimated $1,000,000, in his will in equal shares to his surviving family members.
Samuel T. (Titus) Tabor/Taber	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Brother of Stephen Titus Taber seen above. See Find-A-Grave for an excellent biography and larger photograph. [see obituary]
Stephen H. (Hewlett) Townsend	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Stephen Hewlett Townsend, son of Richard Townsend (1785-1877) & Elizabeth Hewlett (1795-1886) was born Mar. 13, 1812 in Hempstead., NY and died Sept. 7, 1884 in Oyster Bay, NY [see obituary #1 and #2]. He married Jean Watt Garvie (1817-1889). They are buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Nassau Co., NY. His brother was Dwight Townsend listed below.
Dwight Townsend	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Dwight Townsend, son of Richard Townsend (1785-1877) & Elizabeth Hewlett (1795-1886) was born Sept. 26, 1826 & died Oct. 29, 1899) - Wikipedia [see obituary 1; obituary 2 and obituary 3]
John T. [Treat] Irving Jr.	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	John Treat Irving Jr., son of John Treat Irving, Sr. (1778 - 1838) and Abigail Spicer Furman (1779 - 1864) was born in NY City, NY on Dec. 12, 1812 and died there on Feb. 27, 1906 [see obituary]. He married Helen Schermerhorn (1829 - 1893). Her sister, Caroline Schermerhorn (1830 - 1908), married William Backhouse Astor (1829 - 1892), and their son, John Jacob Astor (1864 - 1912), died on the Titanic. He was educated in Columbia College where he studied law and graduated at age 16 in 1828. Irving practiced law, real estate, and was in the brokerage business, but it is chiefly through literature that he is remembered today. A nephew of Washington Irving, he graduated from Columbia College at age 16, and by age 21, in 1833, accompanied government agent Henry L. Ellsworth, with whom Washington Irving had traveled the year before on a journey to make treaties with the Pawnee Indians. That trip resulted in his book, Indian Sketches (1835). Two years later he published his novel, The Hunters of The Prairie, or The Hawk Chief: A Tale of the Indian Country. Those two books "were expressions of that gentlemanly and urban concern for the frontier which so interested Washington Irving on his return from Europe in 1832...It was the record of an excursion [as the author said] 'fraught with novelty and pleasurable excitement,' conveying 'an idea of the habits and customs of the Indian tribes...who, at the time, lived in their pristine simplicity, uncontaminated by the vices of the lawless white men." He was a member of the Authors Club the St. Nicholas Society and the Columbia Alumni and Century Associations. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
Archibald T. [Turce] Finn	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Archibald T. Finn was born c 1812 at Ft. Edward, NY to John R. Finn and Aletha Curtess. Archibald died in Manhattan, NY on Mar. 7, 1885 [see obituary]. He wrote is will on Mar. 27, 1883 and it was probated in NY on Apr. 22, 1885. The heirs named in the probate were his daughter, Caroline Crawford Finn who was named as the executrix of his will; a granddaughter, Christine Anthon and a grandson, George C. Anthon, both minors and children of Archibald's daughter, Katherine Augusta Finn who married George C. Anthon in 1866. We assume there was a first wife but she is unknown at this time. He did marry Rebecca (Fowler) Archer in Manhattan, NY on May 26, 1868. Caroline Crawford Finn died in New York on Jan. 19, 1903.
Richard S. [Stockton] Emmet	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	New Rochelle Pioneer, Richard Stockton Emmet, died Nov. 23, 1902 at the age of 82. [see obituary] He was the oldest member in this country of the famous family which was identified with the rebellion in Ireland in 1798, resulting in the martyrdom of Robert Emmet. He was a lawyer, his father was Robert Emmet, judge of courts in NY, who died in this city in 1878. Richard Stockton Emmet was educated at Columbia. He married Miss Katherine Temple (1843-1895) in 1868. He had been a widower about 7 yrs. Their children were William Temple Emmet, Grenville Temple Emmet, also a lawyer, Mrs. Katherine Keogh, wife of Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Keogh, and the Misses Elizabeth and Eleanor Emmet. Another son, Richard T. Emmet died in Albany several years ago while representing Westchester in the Assembly. Nearly 50 members of the Emmet family, lineal descendants of Robert Emmet, the Irish martyr, attended the funeral. He is buried in Beechwoods Cemetery. He was the brother of William Jenkins Emmet listed below. Source: The Irish Standard (Minneapolis, MN) - Sat., Dec. 13, 1902; pg. 8; The Emmets of New York
William J. [Jenkins] Emmet	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	William Jenkins Emmet was born Aug. 3, 1826 in NY & died Dec. 22, 1905 see obituary. He married Julia Colt Pierson (1829 - Sept. 25, 1908) and they lived at New Rochelle, NY. They are buried in Beechwoods Cemetery. He was the NY agent for Brown & Co., Boston sugar refiners. One of their sons, Robert Temple Emmet (1854 - 1936) was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Benjamin H. [Holt] Lillie	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Benjamin Holt Lillie, son of Ezra & Esther Lillie, was born in Scotland Nov. 30, 1809 and died Dec. 22, 1869 at Toms River, NJ. He married Sophia E. Woodruff on July 22, 1840. A New York City Business Directory lists him as a grocer at 109 Front St. and his home at 100 Spring St. The New York Evening Post ran a short death notice on Wednesday, December 22, 1869, which had the following information: Benjamin Holt Lillie, 59 years of age, and brother-in-law of J.H. Hunting. His will was written in 1868; probated Dec. 28, 1869, Ocean Co., NY; proved Jan. 11, 1870. The will left $20,000 to executors in trust for son, James W. Lillie, with the remainder to be applied to rents, etc., of his three children, Julia W. Gimbermat, James W. Lillie, and Thomas W. Lillie. His children and friend, Richard S. Emmet (also a member of the Currituck Shooting Club) were appointed executors. In 1873, James W. Lillie, an executor, misappropriated $12,429.45, belonging to the estate of Benjamin H. Lillie, dec'd. James W. Lillie never paid back the misappropriated money, and by 1901, Richard S. Emmet was the only executor still living. James W. Lillie left five children who were the remaining beneficiaries of the estate.
George H. [Henry] Fox	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	George Henry Fox, son of George Shotwell Fox (1796-1864) & Rebecca (Leggett) Fox (1799-1879), was born Oct.10, 1824 and died Mar. 27, 1865 [see obituary] in the town of West Farms in Westchester Co., NY. He married Hannah Clarissa Austen (1829-1860). The New York City 1850 census shows George, his wife Hannah and one-year old son, Austen Fox, living in the home of his in-laws, Daniel & Mary Austin. He was listed as a merchant. He is buried in Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard (aka Quaker Cemetery) in the Bronx, NY. On Apr. 15, 1865, his sister, Anna Mott Fox, was made the adm'x. of his estate and she was guardian of his 2 minor children, Austin George Fox (1849-1937) and Rebecca Fox Riggs (1852-1937).
Elias Wade, Jr.	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Elias Wade, Jr. was born Sept. 25, 1798 in Springfield, Union Co., NJ and died in NY City in July 1879. The NY Evening Post ran a short obituary stating he was "of the city" and 81 years old. He married Maria Smith (1802-1869 [see obituary] in Springfield, New Jersey on July 22, 1823. He was listed as a town clerk for Springfield, NJ in 1822 & 1824-'25. He was a well-known and highly respected merchant, and for many years a member of the New York firm, Grinnell, Minturn & Co., importers. He wrote his will in New York Co., NY on June 11, 1873 and codicil in Oct. 1873. Within this will he bequeathed in the first item, "In order to mark my respect and esteem for Mr. Alfred Lockwood, the husband of my deceased daughter, Marie Louise, who has left no issue, and knowing his ample fortune, I request his acceptance of the following, by way of memorial and keepsake from me, and for this purpose I give to him my gold watch (Nardine Maker) and I also give and devise to him, all my estate, interest and right in certain premises and lands in the County of Currituck, North Carolina which I own and have enjoyed for sporting purposes. I also give and bequeath to him my fowling pieces and gunning boats and all the accessories and also my rosewood case containing specimens of Ornithology; all of which I request him to accept as a testimonial of the warm friendship that has always existed between us....." In an article from the March 1871 issue of The American Naturalist, Elias Wade is mentioned regarding shooting in Currituck County.
Valentine Hicks	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Valentine Hicks, son of John Doughty Hicks (1791-1829) & Sarah Rushmore Hicks (1790-1893) was born Feb. 5, 1826 in NY and died in Lee County, IL in 1910 [see obituary]. Valentine married Margaretta Chapman, daughter of Austin Chapman, in 1848 and they had 10 children. They are found in North Hempstead, Queens Co., NY in the 1860 census and in Lee Co., IL in 1870-1900. On July 27, 1888 a Chancery Notice was made in Lee Co., IL for Stephen R. Hicks (Feb. 18, 1823 - Jan. 21, 1892), a non-resident of Illinois, to be present in a court case between Margaret Pomeroy vs Valentine Hicks, Margaretta Hicks & Stephen R. Hicks. Valentine's brother, Stephen Rushmore Hicks, had remained in New York and had died there in 1892 [see obituary]. Margaretta & Valentine separated in 1897. Valentine is still in Lee Co., IL in 1900 but is living in the home of Lincoln Nicholson without his wife. His occupation is given as a "capitalist". Valentine, Margaretta and several of their children, are buried in Woodside Cemetery in Lee Center, Lee Co., IL.
Edwin Post	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	Edwin Post, son of Jotham Post, Jr. & Magdalen Blaau, was born in NY on June 4, 1804 and died in NYC on June 9, 1887 [see obituary]. He married 1st Lucretia Ann Main (1806-1869) in NY City on May 12, 1824. and 2nd Cornelia Davis (1827-1873) in NY on June 1, 1872. Edwin was listed as an Iron Master in the 1850 NY census. In 1870 he was 65 and listed as retired with real estate worth $50,000 and a personal estate of $100,000.00. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
George S. [Sears] Gelston	June 8, 1857 - Charter member	George Sears Gelston was born in East Haddam, CT on Aug. 13, 1805 and died in Brooklyn, NY on Mar. 8, 1890 [see obituary and probate of will]. He married Maria Antoinette Meinell (1821-1915) in 1841. They are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He worked from 1830-1837 as a silversmith in New York City. His marks as a silversmith can be seen here. He was listed in the 1834 city directory at 189 Broadway. He was a partner c.1835 with ? Porter in New York City NY as G. S. Gelston & Porter. He was a partner from 1837 to 1838 with Henry Gelston in New York City as Gelston & Co. He was a partner from 1839 to 1844 with William Fittock Ladd in New York City as Gelston, Ladd & Co. and a partner from 1844 to 1849 with Henry Ressique Treadwell in New York City as Gelston & Treadwell. The 1850 Kings Co., NY, town of New Utrecht, shows that his value in real estate was $135,000 [see real estate sale]. His home overlooked the bay at the intersection of Shore Road & 3rd Ave. The 1875 NY State census shows George as a "retired jeweler"
William H. [Howard] Furman	June 8, 1857 - Charter member and kept his membership after incorporation in 1877. He is listed elsewhere on this list having rejoined in 1879.	William, the son of Garritt Furman & Mary Eaton, was born Oct. 16, 1819 at Maspeth, Queens Co., NC & died Dec. 4, 1893 in Smithtown, Suffolk Co., NY [see obituary]. He married Elizabeth Eglantine Waldron (1823-1901). They are buried in Mount Olive Cemetery in Maspeth, NY.
Philo T. [Taylor] Ruggles	1857/58	Philo Taylor Ruggles was born on Mar. 15, 1803 in New Milford, CT. He graduated from Williams College, and married Sarah Coswell (1813-1877) on Apr. 12, 1849 at the Church of the Divine Unity in NYC. He died on Jan.18, 1894 [see obituary 1 and obituary 2)] in Paterson, NJ, at the home of his former partner, James M. Baldwin. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY. He was apparently one of the most prominent attorneys in NYC for him to be selected to organize the Currituck Shooting Club in 1857.
T.A. [Thomas Addis] Emmet	1858	Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet was the son of Dr. John Patten Emmet (1786-1842) and Mary Byrd Farley Tucker (1805-1860) and the grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet (1764-1827). He was born in VA on May 29, 1826 & died in Manhattan, New York on Mar. 1, 1919 [see obituary part 1; part 2 & part 3]. He married Catherine Rebecca Duncan in 1854. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer. After his death his remains were temporarily placed in his vault in White Plains until suitable arrangements could be made for his burial at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin (in the country of origin for his family). [see his Memorial Stone]
John H. [Henry] Dimon / Dimond	1874	John H. Dimon was born July 14, 1829 in NY and died in Brooklyn, NY on Aug. 24, 1899 [see obituary and estate]. John H. "Diamond" was living in the home of Moses S. Robinson, a sea captain from Maine, and his wife Maria A. Robinson when the 1850 Brooklyn, NY census was taken. By 1855 when the state census was taken it appears that Moses S. had died (or was at sea) and Maria is the head of house. She lists Joseph C. (also a sea captain), John H., and Maria L. Dimon as her sons & daughter. Also living in the home was Maria's 82 year old mother, Martha Bangs. The 1880 shows him living with his mother, and his married sister. He was listed as a retired merchant. The records of the The Second Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn shows that Joseph Cornell Dimond was born on May 18, 1827 and was baptized Apr. 28, 1833 and that he was the son of John Dimond. It also shows that John Henry Dimond was born July 14, 1829 and baptized the same day as Joseph Cornell. His father was also given as John Dimond. John Dimond was born in Fairfield, CT Feb. 15, 1802 & died Nov. 20, 1833 of consumption in Brooklyn, NY. He was a cabinet maker by trade and an ingenious mechanic. He married Maria A. Bangs on Apr. 26, 1826.
H.O. [Henry Osborne] Havemeyer	1876	Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Oct. 18, 1847 - Dec.4, 1907), member of the Currituck Shooting Club, married first Mary Louise Elder (1845 - 1877), and second to Louisine Waldron Elder (July 28, 1855 - Jan.6, 1929). He was head of the American Sugar Refining Company and controlled the sugar industry in the United States. He and his wife, Louisine, were avid art collectors, and the bulk of their collection was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Their daughter, Electra Havemeyer (1880 - 1960), married J. Watson Webb, member of the Currituck Shooting Club. [see Wikipedia] Henry Osborne Havemeyer's brother, Theodore Augustus Havemeyer (May 17, 1839 - Apr. 26, 1897) [see obituary part 1 and part 2], was also a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. He married Emilie de Loosey (1847 - 1914). Their son, also a Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Apr.15, 1876 - Feb. 12, 1965), was also a member and president of the Currituck Shooting Club in 1940. He was married to Charlotte Adelaide Green Whiting (1880 - 1962), and their home was in Mahwah, NJ. He never came to the club after the beginning of WWII, yet he kept his membership for the rest of his life. He continued the family's sugar interests, by then it was Domino Sugar, was head of the Brooklyn International Terminals, and was a director of Chase Manhattan Bank. His cousin, Electra Webb, asked him to donate some artifacts to her museum in Shelburne, VT, and he wrote to John W. Poyner, instructing him to ship his old decoys stored at the club to her. His letter explains that they were included in the package when he bought his membership from Charles H. Senff in 1906 (Mr. Senff's ownership of room 21 dated back to 1878). While those decoys from the Currituck Shooting Club, which are in the Museum at Shelburne, VT today are extant, they may be of Long Island origin.
Dr. John T. Metcalfe	1877	Dr. John T. Metcalfe, for many years one of the leading practitioners and most eminent consultants and medical teachers of New York, died at his winter residence in Thomasville, Georgia, on Jan. 30, 1902 in his 84th year [see obituary]. He is buried at Cold Spring Cemetery in Cold Spring, New York. He was born in Natchez, Mississippi on July 10, 1818, was graduated at West Point in 1838, where he had as a classmate General P.T. Beauregard of Louisiana. He served in the army for two years, for the most part in Florida. He then resigned and began the study of medicine, taking his doctor’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. He spent two years abroad, most of the time at Paris and Edinburgh. In 1845, the same year he returned to New York, he married Harriet Augusta Colles. On returning home he quickly took and held, and that without much apparent effort, a place in the very front rank of medical practitioners in the city of New York. At one-time Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas was associated with him in his practice and subsequently for a time Dr. William M. Polk, the son of his old friend Bishop Polk, the famous fighting Bishop of the South. For a number of years Dr. Metcalfe was professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and his lectures both at the college and at Bellevue hospital were among the most popular given in New York. While he was idolized by his classes, he was not less beloved and esteemed in the community at large and his genial presence, his delightful humor and rare urbanity of manner, as well as his brilliant professional attainments, will long dwell in the minds of all who knew him. Some years ago Dr. Metcalfe retired from practice and was made professor emeritus at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and since that time he had spent his summers with his son, captain Henry Metcalfe, near West Point, on the Hudson and his winters at Thomasville, where for many years he had indulged his tastes as an enthusiastic sportsman, tastes which were of material service in maintaining the health of an unusually sensitive and sympathetic nature. During his professional career Dr. Metcalfe accumulated a large private library, which he donated several years ago to the New York Academy of Medicine, of which he was one of the original members. Within the past two years a fine portrait of Dr. Metcalfe was presented to the academy by Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas. Source: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; Feb. 6, 1902
Samuel Thorne	1877	Samuel Thorne, son of John Thorne & Lydia Ann Corse, was born in Millbrook, Duchess Co., NY on Sept. 6, 1835 and died, while on a fishing trip in Canada, on July 4, 1915. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY. In 1860, Samuel married Phebe S. Van Schoonhoven, daughter of William H. Van Schoonhoven, of Troy, NY., and a descendant of one of the oldest Dutch families of the Hudson Valley. On her maternal side, Miss Van Schoonhoven was also descended from a Quaker family, whose home was at Lithgow, about eight miles northeast of Millbrook, where Mr. Thorne first met her. On his wedding journey, he again visited England. At that time, his purchases included well-bred stock other than "Short Horns", such as, "Southdown sheep" and "Essex swine", and he took special pride in the fact that, of all the animals at "Thorndale", there were none not of full-blood, even down to the pigeons and lop-eared rabbits. For eight years longer, he successfully continued the stock farm, but at the end of this time, opportunity arose for selling-out the herd, and as there were urgent reasons for his moving to the city, he did so. Then began his successful business career in New York, where he associated with his brothers in the leather business. Thorne was a director of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, one of the pioneer companies in the Pennsylvania anthracite field, controlled valuable deposits near Scranton, and Pittston, Pa. It was not long before his son Samuel, was also elected to that board. In 1895, Samuel Thorne was elected President of the company, and held this office, until the stock of the company was purchased in 1900, by the Erie Railroad. Mr. Thome's position in the world, brought him into touch with railroad bank and trust companies. By reason of the character and ability which he in his business relationships, he was sought as a director, or upon many boards, and he became a member of the following: Bank of America; Central Trust Company; Great Northern Railway Co.; Chicago Burlington & Quincy R.R. Co.; Securities Company; New York Life Insurance and Trust Company; and the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company. Besides his business activities, Mr. Thome's appreciation of outdoor life and the humanities made him a sympathetic and generous supporter of efforts to educate the general public in this line. The American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was a patron, the Botanical Gardens, and the New York Zoological Society, were among this number. He was Vice-President of the last named society, which more than any other, appealed to him, and for which, he gave liberally of his time and means. In the early eighties, Mr. Thorne purchased the place in Milbrook, formerly owned by Mr. George H. Brown, the New York banker. This property, which Mr. Thorne named, "The Crest", adjoined "Thorndale" on the Northwest. There, he and his family regularly spent their summers, and there, as the years went on, he was best-known and most beloved, both for his public spirit, and for his kindly acts. Few of his neighbors, at some time or other, did not see that well-loved form on their doorstep, with a basket of choice fruit, or some other delicacy in his hand, as an expression of his thought and feeling for those within. Lasting monuments, to his breadth of interest in the community, stand to day, in the well-equipped high school building, erected and given to the Village of Millbrook, by him, and his surviving brothers and sister, in memory of their parents, and in the attractive YMCA building, which his liberal contributions helped to make possible. Originally a member of the Society of Friends, Samuel Thorne, after his marriage, became one of the founders of the Dutch Reformed Church, at Millbrook. Here, he attended with scrupulous regularity, and its pastor alone knew of the multitude of quiet deeds with which Mr. Thorne blessed and helped those about him. Later, when the family moved to New York, he attended the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Thorne was an ardent sportsman. In his younger days, he enjoyed few pleasures more than to roam over the country with a good dog, and gun. But the sport in which he took the keenest interest, was that of salmon fishing. When death overtook him, he was on a salmon fishing trip, on the St. John's River, in Canada, with his old friend, James J. Hill, of St. Paul. With a life of seventy-nine years behind him, so strong was the spirit of his youth, that on Saturday July 3rd, the day before he died, he killed six salmon, the largest of which, weighed twenty-eight pounds. The funeral held on July 9th, from his home in Millbrook, was a striking testimony to the wide esteem in which he was held. So lived and died this Christian gentleman after nearly eighty years full of blessing, honor and usefulness. He saw at various times members of seven generations of his family remembering his great-grandfather and having a son's grandchildren play at his knees. In addition to his brother Jonathan Thorne he was survived by his widow, four sons a daughter, fourteen grandchildren and two great- grandchildren." [see obituary]
James G. [George] Averill/Averell	Oct. 1, 1878	James George Averell, son of James & Lydia Averell, was born in St. Lawrence Co., NY on Nov. 4, 1818 and died Aug.11, 1895 [see death notice]. He married 1^st Charlotte Hildebrand Seymour (1829 - 1861) in 1846 and 2^ndHarriet Gilbert (1824 - 1910) in 1864. The value of his real estate in 1870 was $240,000 and his personal estate was valued at $200,000. He was a banker and Mayor of Ogdensburg, NY. He is buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery, St. Lawrence Co., NY. His brother, William John Averell, had a daughter, Mary Averell, who married Edward Henry Harriman, and their son was W. Averell Harriman, Governor of New York and diplomat.
Newton [Lord] Dexter	Oct. 1, 1878	Newton Lord Dexter, son of Jeremiah Dexter & Olivia Hinsdale, was born in Walpole, MA on Oct. 17, 1809 and died Nov. 14, 1883.in Salisbury, CT, He married Lydia Cook (1817-1879) at Long Branch, NJ on Nov. 15, 1840. Newton was listed as a manufacturer in 1850 and as a shoe manufacturer in 1860. He and Lydia are buried in Salisbury Cemetery in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT.
Wm. L. [Lawrence] Beckwith	Oct. 1, 1878	The William Lawrence Beckwith (Jan. 26, 1843 - Oct. 1901) was a Canadian. He lived at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, and was probably involved in the boat building business for which his community was known for. Canadian census records list him as a farmer. He married Abigail Rebecka Dorman (1849 - 1912), from Massachusetts. When the 1901 Census of Canada was taken, they were living at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia He was a farmer, of Scottish origin, and a Methodist. A son, Brenton S. Beckwith, was a blacksmith in Malden, Ma. William L. and Abigail Beckwith and several of their children are buried in the Riverbank Cemetery, Hantsport, Nova Scotia. A son, Arthur Wellsley Beckwith (1872 - 1932) lived in Quincy, Ma. A famous Beckwith kinsman, John Charles Beckwith (b. Oct. 2, 1789, Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. July 19, 1862, La Torre, Italy), was badly injured during the Battle of Waterloo. William Lawrence Beckwith was the son of John Albert Beckwith (1814 - 1866) and Rebecca Ann Barnaby (1815 - 1877) A daughter, Blanche Beckwith Cannon (1885 - 1934), was living in New York City in 1930. She is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Ardsley (Hastings on Hudson), Westchester Co., NY. Abigail Rebecka Dorman Beckwith, widow of William L. Beckwith, died in Manhattan, NY, on Nov. 16, 1912. A daughter, Nellie Mae Beckwith (Jan, 1889 - 3 Mar 1969) (buried Cedar Grove Cem, Patchogue, Suffolk Co., NY) She was a nurse and lived with her sister Blanche in New York City in 1930. She married (1) Ralph S. Malcolm; (2) Louis Willis Manzie.
Wilkins U. [Updike] Hidden	Oct. 1, 1878	Wilkins Updike Hidden, son of Henry A. and Abby A. (Updike) Hidden, was born December 25, 1842 in Providence, RI. He graduated from Brown University in the class of 1865, and in 1868 was admitted to partnership with his father in the firm of H. A. Hidden & Sons. Wilkins was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He died in Providence, RI on Nov. 11, 1915. He was listed in the 1915 RI census as age 71. He never appeared to have married but he did have 2 servants in his home. He was found at his home dead in a chair. The doctor's certificate stated it was probably heart failure. He is buried at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island.
Henry Metcalfe	Oct. 1, 1878	Captain Henry Metcalfe was born in New York on Oct. 29, 1847 where his father, Dr. John Thomas Metcalfe [seen elsewhere on this list], was attending physician to Bellevue Hospital Center. His father was a former American Army ordnance officer, and later became professor of institutes and practice of medicine at New York University. Henry graduated on June 15, 1868 from West Point Military Academy and was commissioned into the Ordnance Corps. He was an inventor and early organizational theorist, known for his 1873 invention of a detachable magazine for small arms, for his work on modern management accounting, the development of the "time card" and his theory of the role of middle management. He married Harriet Pauline Nichols in Washington, DC on Apr. 18 18, 1870. Henry died on Aug. 17, 1927 and is buried at the United States Military Academy Post Cemetery in West Point, Orange Co., NY. [see his lengthy biography on Wikipedia]
Louis D. [DeVillers] Hoard	Oct. 10, 1878	Louis DeVillers Hoard, son of Silvius Hoard & Nancy Mary DeVillers, was born in Antwerp, Jefferson Co., NY on Apr. 24, 1824 and died Mar. 4, 1893 in Ogdensburg, NY. [see obit 1 and obit 2]. He married Margaret Annette Clarkson (1832-1910) on Mar. 4, 1849. Louis de Villers Hoard served an unlikely, but important role in Chicago’s history after the fire. A native of New York, he moved to Chicago in 1836. Upon the creation of the court of common pleas in 1843, he was elected deputy clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois. Prior to his re-election in 1852 he wrote to his mother, of them an unclear thing I shall be very fortunate, I have to go through a very sharp contest for my office this fall and how I shall succeed is of course uncertain as it depends (on the nomination at least) upon the caprice of managing politicians, however, I think my prospects are very fair." (Chicago, September 23, 1852) He and his wife, Margaret, loved living in Chicago. They were upper middle class, lived near very desirable real estate, and could afford a cook. Hoard and Margaret moved to a larger home and enjoyed decorating the place. He and his wife wrote to their families in detail about the architecture and location as well as its furnishings. Serious illness struck the family and forced them to move out of their happy home and relocate to New York. After health improved, they moved back to Chicago in October 1864. Hoard purchased one half interest in the Shorthall and Fuller Firm. During the Chicago fire, his company was one of the few that escaped with their paperwork. As a result, their records became an important resource for Chicago business history and helped form the basis of the Chicago Title and Trust Company.
Geo. B. [George Browne] Post	Oct. 10, 1878	Son of Joel Brown Post & Abby Mauren Church, George Browne Post was born in Manhattan, NY on Dec. 15, 1837 & died in Somerset Co., NJ on Nov. 28, 1913 [see obituary]. One of America's most prominent and talented architects, he studied civil engineering at New York University and received his C. E. degree in 1858, then studied architecture with Richard M. Hunt and in 1860 formed a partnership with Charles D. Gambrill. He was also leader of a notable group that helped regenerate American architecture from 1875 to 1890. He used innovative building techniques throughout his career to create ever-taller buildings and large interior spaces for public use. Some of the buildings designed by him are the New York Cotton Exchange, New York Produce Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, College of the City of New York, Pulitzer Building, Wisconsin State Capitol, Manufacture and Liberal Arts Building at Chicago Exposition, and the residences of Cornelius Vanderbilt and Collis P. Huntington. [see Wikipedia for lengthy biography]
Henry A. [Alger] Gilderslive/ Gilsersleeve	Oct. 14, 1878	Henry Alger Gildersleeve was born in Clinton, New York on Aug. 1, 1840 and died n Manhattan, NY on Feb. 27, 1923 [see obit part 1; part 2; part 3; and funeral. He married Virginia Crocheron in Manhattan on Apr. 14, 1868.
Chas. H. [Henry] Senff	Oct. 14, 1878	Charles Henry Senff (Aug. 26, 1841 - Aug. .23, 1911[see close to death and obituary]) was an art collector and sugar manufacturer. He was a director of the American Sugar Refining Company, and his estate was valued at ten million dollars. His wife was Gustavia Tapscott (1858 - 1927). His brother, Frederick William Senff (1849 - 1926), married Georgiana Havemeyer (1850 - 1928).
William R. [Retalack] Garrison	Oct. 25, 1878	William Retalack Garrison, son of Cornelius Kingsland (1809-1885) Garrison and Mary Noye Retalack, was born in Goderich, Ontario, Canada on June 18, 1834 and died in Long Branch, NJ in a railroad accident [another account of the accident] on July 1, 1882 [see obituary]. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. He married Mary Elizabeth "Bettie" Estill (1834-1923) in 1856 in KY.
Lewis/Louis Edwards	Jan. 4, 1879	Believed to be the same Lewis Edwards who was a member of the Narrows Island Club; owned several memberships at this club
Thos. [Thomas] J. Havemeyer	Apr. 1, 1879	Thomas J. Havemeyer, son of Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1807-1891) and Sarah Louise Henderson (1812-1851), was born Oct. 30, 1845 in NY City and died Apr. 9, 1899 [see obituary and estate]. He was in the sugar business with his brothers, Theodore Augustus Havemeyer (1839-1897) and Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847-1907) Among other residences, Thomas J. Havemeyer lived at Hammond Hall [see story on this residence]. It was said that he never married but shortly after his death a lady came forward claiming to be his wife of 15 years. [see dower rights 1 and 2]
J.O. [Johann/John Otto] Donner	Apr. 1, 1879	John Otto Donner was born on May 1, 1840 in Altona, Germany and died in New York City on Dec. 13, 1899 [see obituary; obituary 2 and funeral]. He married 1^stMary Elizabeth Van Arsdale and 2^nd Julia W.L. Davidson in Brooklyn, NY on Mar. 17, 1891. He wrote his will in Darlington, Bergen Co., NJ on Sept. 30. 1896 where he named his wife as executrix and mentioned his 2 daughters, Mary Elizabeth Van Arsdale Donner Franksen (from his first marriage) and wife of Rudolph Franksen, and Ilse Alberta Anna Donner. Mary Elizabeth Franksen contested the estate accounts but settled it out of court. John Otto was in the sugar refining business with Theodore A. Havemeyer and in 1878 they placed a statement in the newspapers that they did not use adulterating substances in their sugars.
Wm. H. [Howard] Furman **	Apr. 1, 1879	**same as William H. Furman who was a charter member in 1857
E. [Elihu] Harrison Sanford	Oct. 20, 1879	Elihu Harrison Sanford was born in Brooklyn, NY on Sept. 15, 1850 and died in Paterson, NJ on Nov. 19, 1892. His parents were Rollin Sanford (1806-1879) & Clarinda Harrison (1824-1884). Elihu married Mary W. Baxter on Oct. 21, 1874 in Rutland, VT. He was an inspector of First Division Rifles, State National Guard with rank of Colonel, also an officer in the 7th Rgt. of New York City. He held the world's record one year for rifle shooting at Creedmore. Connected with the Stamford Mfg. Co. The 1878 New York City Directory shows Elihu Harrison Sanford, merchant, at 428 Madison Ave. His father, Rollin Sanford, succeeded Henry J. Sanford in 1854 as president of Stamford Manufacturing Co., and he resigned in 1859. It was the world's largest dye concern.
Thomas H. [Henry] Barber/Barbour	Oct. 31, 1879	Thomas Henry Barber, Sr. was born in London, England on May 6, 1844 & died in New York on Mar. 16, 1905 [see obituary; obituary 2]. He attended West Point and graduated in 1867 and served in the U.S. Army until 1885. He went on to become Inspector General of the National Guard of New York and in 1899 and advanced to the rank of Brigadier General. He was active in Southampton affairs and initiated the idea for the erection of the Soldiers & Sailors monument in Agawam Park and saw it's completion. He was first married to Justine Townsend (1853-1881) in 1877 and second to Harriet Bayard Townsend (1864-1942) in 1886. They are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Harriet was descended from and old Hudson Valley family, the Van Rensselaers. "Lords Directors" of the Dutch West India Company. The Van Rensselaers were one of the original Dutch families to settle in the Hudson River Valley and their vast 2100 square mile property, Rensselaerwyck, near Albany, included a large stone ediface with dormers and gambrel roof built in 1765 by Harriet's grandfather, Steven Van Rensselaer. Harriet Barber was attached to her ancestral home and wanted her new house to replicate it as close as possible. This home was known as Claverack which means "clover field" in Dutch.
Dr. John C. [Conner] Barron	1880	John Conner Barron was born Nov. 2, 1837 in Woodbridge, NJ & died in Woodbridge on Feb. 6, 1908. He married Harriett M. Williams on June 23, 1869. He is buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard in Woodbridge. Of note is Dr. Barron's sister, Maria (1839 - 1918), who married Charles DeForest Fredericks (1823 - 1894), photographic - daguerreotype and carte de visites pioneer with establishments in Paris, Havana, NYC, and Brooklyn. Dr. Barron probably joined at Narrows Island Club on Apr. 30, 1885. On Oct. 2, 1878, he bought Deed 4, Room 16, at the Currituck Shooting Club, which was not sold again until 6 Oct 1914 when William Woodward bought it. Either Dr. Barron's heirs/estate kept his dues paid from his death in 1908, or it reverted back to the club till 1914. In 1880, he was Secretary/Treasurer of the Currituck Shooting Club. On May 12, 1885, he bought Deed 8, Room 20, at the Currituck Shooting Club, and he sold it on Nov. 16, 1885. On Apr. 16, 1887, he bought Deed 6, Room 18, at the Currituck Shooting Club, and he sold it on Apr. 6, 1891. [see obit part 1 and part 2] [see Find-A-Grave for more information.]
David H. [ Haslett] King, Jr.	May 24, 1880	David Haslett King, Jr., son of David H. King, Sr. (1817-1898 see obituary) and Mary A. Purcell (1829-1874) was born in New Rochelle, New York May 27, 1849 and died on Apr. 20, 1916 in New York City [see obituary]. In March 1871 Mary (Purcell) King had an account with the Freedmen's Bank where she stated her children were:: David H. Jr. (age 21), Martha Jane (age 19), William Theodore (age 14) & John Henry King (age 12). David H. King Jr. married Mary Lyon (1858-1895) and in 1890 he purchased land along 138th and 139th streets in Harlem on which he would construct his King Model Houses. He had recently constructed the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and would soon build the Washington Memorial Arch in Washington Square Park. Describing his housing project for the middle class, King declared, "the homes of New Yorkers [should] be sunny, tasteful, convenient, and commodious even if their occupants are not millionaires." To vary the look of each block, King hired three different architectural firms to construct 146 row houses and three apartment buildings. Unusual for New York, King included service alleys behind the rows of houses as well as cross alleys to break the monotony of the house fronts. The architects retained by King were prominent in their day. James Brown Lord (1858–1902), who designed the houses on the south side of 138th St., also designed the old Delmonico’s Restaurant (1891) at Beaver and Williams streets in the Financial District and the Appellate Court on Madison Square (1902). Bruce Price (1845–1903) and Clarence S. Luce (1852–1924) designed the houses on the north side of 138th St. and the south side of 139th St. Price would later design the Chateau Frontenac Hotel (1893) in Quebec City. The most famous architect associated with the project was Stanford White (1853–1906), who designed the houses on the north side of 139th St. White designed the Villard Houses (1884) on Madison Ave., the Cable Building at Broadway and Houston St. (1892), and the Washington Memorial Arch (1895). Construction commenced in 1891, and the houses were completed in time for the Depression of 1893. The unexpected economic downturn led to only nine houses being sold by 1895. In Feb. 1895 the Mayor of NY City named David H. King, Jr. as commissioner to serve on the Public Parks Board who agreed to take the position "as long as it wasn't too arduous".
William C. [Collins] Whitney	May 24, 1880	William Collins Whitney was born July 5, 1841 in Conway, MA and died in NY on Feb. 2, 1904 NY [see obituary]. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY. He married (1) Flora Payne (1842 - 1893), and (2) Edith Sybil May Randolph (1854 - 1899). He graduated from Yale University in 1863 and studied Law at Harvard under Abraham R. Lawrence. He became one of the largest landowners in the eastern US, and he was involved in thoroughbred horse racing. He served as Secretary of the Navy from 1885 - 1899 during Grover Cleveland's first administration. His family-connected interests included the Metropolitan Steamship Company, West End Railway Company of Boston, Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on Cape Breton Island, and the Knickerbocker Trust Company. His son, Payne Whitney (1876 - 1927) married Helen Julia Hay (1875 - 1944), and their daughter was Joan Whitney (1903 - 1975), who married Charles Shipman Payson (1898 - 1985), and she was a famous thoroughbred racehorse owner-breeder and owner of the New York Mets. His sister, Laurinda Collins "Lily" Whitney (or Lorinda, 1852 - 1946) married Charles Tracy Barney (27 Jun 1851 - 14 Nov 1907), and he became president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company in 1897. In 1907, Knickerbocker joined a deal organized by speculators, F Augustus Heinze and Charles W. Morse, to corner the market of the United Copper Company. The plan failed spectacularly, Knickerbocker collapsed, and Barney was asked to resign. He committed suicide at home. Both Charles T. Barney and his son, Ashbel Hinman Barney (July 29, 1876 - Sept. 27, 1945)) were members of the Narrows Island Club at Poplar Branch. His father, Ashbel Holmes Barney (1816 - 1886), had been president of Wells Fargo & Company. Charles T. Barney's grandson, Archibald S. Alexander, was Secretary of the Army in the Truman Administration. The failure of the Knickerbocker and the Panic of 1907 led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. A daughter of Charles T. & Lorinda Whitney Barney was Helen Tracey Barney (1882 - 1922), who married Frederic Newell Watriss (Mar. 9, 1871 - Apr. 10, 1938), a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. [see Wikipedia for more information] [View full-page newspaer layout (with photos) of Whitney's life]
Charles R. [Roland] Christy	Oct. 9, 1880	Charles Roland Christy, was born Apr. 1, 1848 in NY and died Mar. 25, 1920 [see obituary]. He was the son of Thomas & Eliza Christy. He married Jenny Pierson Lundy, eldest daughter of Rev. John P. Lundy, on Nov. 20, 1872 at the Church of Holy Apostles, New York City. As a young man, he went into business with his father, Thomas Christy, in the wall paper business in New York City. After his father's death in 1874, he sold the business and became vice president of the Newell Manufacturing Company (makers of sugar refining machinery), and he remained in that position until his death. In 1896, he purchased a large tract of timber in the Adirondacks and went into the lumber business as C.R. Christy & Son. About 1900, he formed a wholesale lumber business, Chirsty, Moir Company, and was president until his death. He was also involved with the Iberville Lumber Company. He was a Veteran of the 7th Regiment, New York National Guard.
Louis C. [Crawford] Clark, Sr.	May 10, 1881	Louis Crawford Clark was born July 28, 1853 and died Aug. 16, 1924 [see obituary]. He married Marion De Forest Cannon (1856 - 1912). He was a member of the banking firm of Clark, Dodge & Co. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.
Charles A. [Alfred] Post	Nov. 16, 1881	Son of Joel Brown Post & Abby Mauren Church, Charles Alfred Post was born in Manhattan, NY on Jan. 6, 1844 and died in Manhattan on Apr. 28, 1921 [see obituary]. He married Marie Caroline De Trobriand (1845-1926). He is buried in Saint Ann's Cemetery in Sayville, Suffolk Co., NY.
Bayard Thayer	Nov. 3, 1883	Son of Nathaniel Thayer, Jr. & Cornelia Patterson, Bayard Thayer was born on Apr. 3, 1862 in Boston, MA and died on Nov. 29, 1916 in Lancaster, MA. [see obituary and estate] He married Ruth Simpkins (1864-1941) on Sept. 1, 1896 in Yarmouth, MA. In 1900 they lived in Lancaster, MA and had 2 children & 9 servants. Baynard was listed as a farmer. By 1910 they had moved to Boston and had 2 more children and 6 servants in the home. He "had his own income" as did his wife. He was an expert yachtsman and fond of travel. His hobby was pheasants. Bayard was a twin to John Eliot Thayer who was also a member of this club and can be seen elsewhere in this list.
James J. [Jerome] Hill	Dec. 2, 1884	Railroad pioneer, James Jerome Hill, son of James Hill (1811-1852) and Ann Dunbar (1805-1876), was born in Ontario, Canada on Sept 16, 1838 and died in St. Paul, MN on May 29, 1916 and is buried in Resurrection Cemetery, Mendota Heights, Dakota Co., MN. [see newspaper image for his lengthy obituary] He married Theresa Mehegan (1846-1921). He was the chief railroad executive responsible for establishing the Great Northern Railway lines which served the upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest of America. In 1873, as a steamboat shipping businessman in Minnesota, he saw the need to expand railways to the western territories. Between 1883 and 1889, he built his Great Northern Railway lines all the way across north America, the Great Plains, the Rockies to Seattle Washington. Under his management, he helped homesteads to immigrants by importing grains, farm equipment, building materials and general products which brought industry to Western America. By the time of his death he held the monopoly of the railroad business in the U.S. with the Great Northern Railway having lines in Texas, Colorado, California and Washington at a worth of more than $53 million. He was the father of James N. & Louis W. Hill seen further down on this list.
George C. [Crawford] Clark [Sr.]	1885 & Dec. 31, 1888	George Crawford Clark, son of Luther Clapp Clark (1814-1877) and Julia Crawford (1823-1900), was born in St. Louis, MO on Aug. 3, 1844 and died in Aiken Co., SC on Feb. 24, 1919 [see obituary and death certificate]. On Nov. 4, 1875 he married Harriet Seymore Averell (1852-1933), daughter of James George Averell (seen elsewhere on this list). George was a banker with the company of Clark, Dodge & Co. He and Harriet are buried in Green Wood Cemetery in Manhattan, NY.
Henry A. [Reginald Astor] Carey	Oct. 8, 1889	Henry Reginald Astor Carey, son of John Carey, Jr. (1821-1881) and Mary Alida Astor (1823-1881), was born on July 9, 1865 in Manhattan, NY and died Apr. 29, 1893 in Newport, RI.. [see obituary] He is buried in Island Cemetery in Newport, RI. He graduated from Harvard in 1889. In Nov. 1892 he purchased the Newport Herald of which he at once assumed the management and editorship. He was an enthusiast on coaching and had made plans for running a daily coach service between Newport and Narragansett Pier. He was fond of yachting. He was a member of the Knickerbocker and Corinthian Yacht Clubs and the Meadow Brook Hunt Club. He never married and he was a nephew of the late John Jacob Astor.
George Bird	1890	George Bird, son of George Bird & Mary Warren Cannon, was born in Newport, RI on Aug. 8, 1858 and died in Islesboro, Maine on Aug. 21, 1917 [see obituary & funeral notice]. He married Ruth Moorhead Metcalf (widow of Frederick Wilder Marcalf) who was born Aug. 21, 1859 & died March 31, 1930 [see obituary]. George and Ruth are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, NY. The 1905 NY State Census shows George and Ruth living at 202 Madison Avenue with 5 servants in the home. [see news article for June 1902; news article part 1 & part 2 for Oct. 1902] George was a good friend of William Seward Webb.
J. [Jacob] Louis Webb	Nov. 6, 1890	Jacob Louis Webb (Apr. 24, 1856 - Dec. 24 1928) was the son of James Watson Webb (1802 - 1884) and Laura Virginia Cram (1826 - 1890) and brother of Dr. William Seward Webb, also a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. He attended St Paul's School in Concord, NH from 1869-'75 [see photo from St. Paul's School] and spent a year at Yale but left to study art. He was an artist and an art collector and spent most of his life outdoors. He lived abroad 9 months out of the year. At the time of his death his residence was 515 Madison Ave. in New York City. He never married. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
F. [Frederick] Augustus Schermerhorn	Feb. 5, 1891	Frederick A. Schermerhorn, son of Peter & Adeline Emily Coster Schermerhorn, was born in Manhattan, NY on Nov. 1, 1844. He never married. He died Mar. 20, 1919. [see obit part 1, part 2, part 3 part 4 and estate part 1 & part 2] [see photo 1 and photo 2]
W.S. [William Seward] Webb	Apr. 8, 1891	Dr. William Seward Webb was born Jan. 31, 1851 Manhattan, NY and died Oct. 29, 1926 Shelburne, Crittenden Co., VT [see obit part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4] He married Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt (Apr. 20, 1860 - July 10, 1936), daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt. Dr. Webb received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1875, but he did not practice medicine for very long. His interests were in the Wagner Palace Car Company, which later became Pullman Cars, and various railroad interests. He and his wife developed their farm at Shelburne, VT. His brother, Jacob Louis Webb (Apr.24, 1856 - Dec.24, 1928) was a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. Dr. Webb and his wife had a daughter, Frederica Webb (1882 - 1949) whose first husband was Ralph Pulitzer. Dr. Webb's son, James Watson Webb (1884 - 1960), was a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. He married Electra Havemeyer (1888 - 1960). She was the daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847 - 1907), member of the Currituck Shooting Club, and Louisine W. Elder. J. Watson Webb and Electra Havemeyer's daughter, Electra Webb (1910 - 1982) was married to Dunbar W. Bostwick, a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. A son of J. Watson Webb and Electra Havemeyer was Vanderbilt Webb (1891 - 1956). He was a NYC attorney, and he was the personal attorney of Nelson Rockefeller. He was married to Aileen Clinton Hoadley (1892 - 1979). At the time of his death, he was president of the Currituck Shooting Club. J. Watson Webb and Electra Havemeyer had another son, Samuel Blatchley Webb (1912 - 1988), also a member of the Currituck Shooting Club, who married (1) Martha Twinkle (1910 - 1990) and (2) Elizabeth Johnson (1914 - 1993). The Museum at Shelburne, Vermont has been this family's prized accomplishment, and it contains the largest collection of American folk art known to exist. John Carlo Parker (1866 - 1925), Assistant Superintendent of the Currituck Shooting Club, and his wife, Daisy Hall (1875 - 1968), named their son, Seward Webb Parker (1892 - 1983), after Dr. William Seward Webb.
William Post	Dec. 29, 1893	William Post was born in Westbury, NY Jan. 30, 1853 and died in East Williston, NY on Nov. 20, 1923 [see obituary]. He married Mary J. Willis (1860 - 1930). He was a horse breeder. He is buried in Westbury Friends Cemetery, Westbury, Nassau Co., NY.
J.H. [John Henry] Purdy	Dec. 29, 1893	John Henry Purdy was born Sept. 19, 1853 and died Sept. 27, 1934 [see obituary]. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY He was in the Class of 1875, Columbia University lawyer; a member of the firm of W.M. & J.H. Purdy, 140 Nassau St., New York City, NY. His home was at 121 Madison Ave., NYC. He married Mary McKeever (1858 - 1951). He was a member of the University Club, St. Anthony Club, New York Yacht Club, Groller and Metropolitan clubs and the Columbia University Alumni Assoc. He arrived in NY from Boulogne Sur Mer, France, aboard the Staterdam on Sept. 23 1934 and died 4 days later.
W.K. [William Kissam] Vanderbilt	Nov. 14, 1894	William Kissam Vanderbilt was born in NY on Dec.12, 1849 and died in Paris, France on July 22, 1920 [see obituary part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4], son of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam, was a member of the Currituck Shooting Club, as was his son, William K. Vanderbilt, II. His daughter, Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt, was married to Dr. William Seward Webb, who also was a member along with several of his family members. His brother, George Washington Vanderbilt, built Biltmore House, near Asheville, NC. [see Wikipedia]
Archibald Rogers	Nov. 14, 1894	Col. Archibald Rogers, son of Edmund Pendleton Rogers & Virginia Drummer was born Feb. 22, 1852 in Jersey City, NY and died May 9, 1928 [see obituary]. He is buried at Saint James Episcopal Churchyard , Hyde Park, Dutchess Co., NY. He owned the Crumwold Hall Mansion in Dutchess Co., NY which sits south of Hyde Park Village. He purchased it in 1889. In 1842 it was owned by Elias Butler who gave the place its present name. The Miller and Hoffman families resided on a portion of this property, and the houses of General James J. Jones and Dudley B. Fuller now form a part of this immense estate. Archibald Rogers married Anne Coleman (1858-1934). Six of eight children survived to adulthood and, upon her death, $3,000,000 was divided among the surviving heirs. Archibald graduated from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School. He established Rogers Locomotive Works in Paterson, NJ and joined Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad Co. and Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. He was a pioneer of golf and ice yachting and the first Captain of the Myopia Hunt Club team. He was a big game hunter and regularly went to his fishing lodge in New Brunswick. He co-owned a pack of English hounds with Samuel Colgate and headed the syndicate which built the "Colonia" and was rumored to have been part of the 40-man team that defended the America's Cup.
James L. [Lawrence} Breese	Mar. 18, 1897	When James Lawrence Breese was born on December 24, 1854, in Manhattan, New York, his father, Josiah Salisbury Breese, was 42 and his mother, Augusta Eloise Lawrence, was 25. He married Frances Tileston Potter on September 8, 1880, in Newport, Rhode Island. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Harford, Maryland in 1910 and Manhattan, NY in 1920. He died on December 22, 1934 [see obit part 1 and obit part 2], in Southampton, Suffolk Co., New York, at the age of 79, and was buried in Southampton Cemetery in Southampton, NY. James was a wealthy stockbroker and renowned amateur photographer with a spectacular country home in Southampton called The Orchard. Built from 1895 to 1906, it was designed by McKim, Mead & White with Mount Vernon as the model for the main section. In 1916 Country Life listed it as one of "The Best Twelve Country Houses in America". Supported by a fortune made in finance at his firm Breese & Smith, his real passions were photography, art, automobiles, racing and architecture. He was also a member of the Narrow's Island Club.
Samuel Russell	1901	Samuel Russell (Oct. 8, 1847 - Apr. 17, 1926), lived in Middletown, CT, in a house built by his grandfather. The family business, Russell and Co., became the largest trading house in the United States for Chinese imports in the mid-19th Century, for items such as tea, silk, and opium. John Forbes Kerry's family was involved in the company, as was Warren Delano, Jr., grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Russell's grandson, Thomas McDonough Russell, deeded the house to Wesleyan University in 1937, and it is used today as a special events facility, and it houses the Philosophy Department. Mr. Russell had become friends with John W. Poyner before he came to the Currituck Shooting Club as superintendent, and he used to stay in the Poyner home at Bertha and hunt quail. Mr. Russell went blind in his old age, and Mary Glines remembered taking her mother to his house in Connecticut while on a visit to Elsie Doxey Phillips in New York City. The housekeeper opened the door for Mary and her mother, and her mother asked if they could see Mr. Russell. Mary said his voice came from the next room, "Is that you, Mrs. Poyner?" In 2001, Mr. Russell's great-grandson, Sam Russell (d.2012), a professor at Princeton University, drove to Currituck and gave me a box of artifacts belonging to Mr. Samuel Russell that the family had saved all those years. With his permission, I gave that box of items to the Currituck County Public Library for safe keeping. There was an 1895 Membership Book in the box, and a set of blue prints for the Guides' Quarters, and countless letters of correspondence. Samuel Russell's first wife was Lucy McDonough, and his second wife was Sarah Chaplin. During his visits to the club, he spent one evening during his time there having dinner with and visiting with the Poyner family in their quarters. He was very well thought of.
James N. [Norman] Hill	Mar. 26, 1901	Businessman, and financier. James Norman Hill was born February 13, 1870, at the Hill's Canada and Pearl Street home in St. Paul, MN. James was given his middle name in honor of his father's early business associate and friend, Norman Kittson. In 1878, his education began with tutor August N. Chemidlin, a Frenchman educated by the Jesuits. This was probably a compromise between the local public schools with what the Hills perceived as their Protestant bias, the fledgling Catholic schools, and his parents' desire not to send him to boarding school. As a boy, Jimmy also took violin lessons but was not too successful. In 1884, Professor J. W. Fairbanks was engaged to provide a thorough college prep education for Jimmy and the next-oldest son, Louis. All of their lessons were taken in the third floor schoolroom of the Ninth and Canada house. Hill, angry at poor teaching, fired Fairbanks after only a few years and enrolled his sons at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in the spring of 1887. The Hill boys were lodged at a private house, again probably due to the Protestant leanings of the institution, and tutors were engaged to help them keep up in their studies. James Norman was manager of the football team and did better at Exeter than Louis. In the fall of 1889, James Norman began at Yale University. He didn't fare well, partly due to rheumatism and continued eye trouble. He graduated in the spring of 1893, returning to St. Paul in time for the celebrations marking the completion of the Great Northern Railway. No family members attended his and Louis's graduations from Yale; James J. Hill was traveling in the west on railroad business and Mary, who planned to attend, was discouraged from going by her son and stayed in St. Paul. Immediately after graduation James Norman was hired by his father as president of the Eastern Railway, a small branch of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) that terminated in Superior, Wisconsin. From 1893-1898 he and Louis only received living expenses and an allowance of $75 month. However, in 1893 Hill transferred $100,000 worth of GNR stock to each of them. In 1899 James Norman was made vice president of the GNR and did impressive work on the troublesome Montana division and the Seattle tunnel. He demonstrated good people skills and was considered bright and articulate. James J. Hill, however, seemed frustrated by his oldest son's inability to maintain a diligent work schedule, perhaps because of health issues, especially rheumatism. In 1901-1905 Louis began to supplant James Norman as the obvious successor to their father. In 1905 Jimmy left active work on the Great Northern and became a director of the Northern Pacific. He moved to New York City and took up residence at the University Club there. His father gave him $300,000 to invest in a cement company that was not successful. However, a later investment in the new Texas Company (later Texaco), which was destined to become one of the largest petroleum companies of the period, made James Norman quite wealthy in his own right. He served on many corporate boards: the Northern Pacific Railway, Texas Company, Chase National Bank, Colorado & Southern Railway Company, Great Northern Iron Ore Properties, and Midland Securities Company. In 1912 he married Marguerite Sawyer Fahnestock in a quiet ceremony in London. None of the Hill family members attended. Apparently because she was a divorcee, Marguerite was never received at 240 Summit. The couple lived in New York City and had a country home, Big Tree Farm, on Long Island until his death in 1932 [see obituary]. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY. They had no children. Marguerite married twice after his death. She died in 1948. In his will, James Norman Hill left gifts to Phillips Exeter Academy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History, among other institutions. The James J. Hill Reference Library was the residual beneficiary of the trust Mary Hill funded for her son, a provision that totaled $445,000.
Louis W. [Warren] Hill	Mar. 26, 1901	Louis Warren Hill was born May 19, 1872, at the family’s Ninth and Canada cottage in the Lowertown neighborhood of St. Paul and was named in honor of family friend Father Louis Caillet. Louis’ education followed his older brother James Norman’s almost identically, starting lessons in 1878 with August N. Chemidlin at the Hill’s Ninth and Canada house, and continuing there with Professor Fairbanks 1884-1887. Louis later went to Phillips Exeter Academy but did not fare as well as Jimmy. James J. and Mary T. Hill wrote to both sons while at Exeter and Yale University, encouraging them to study harder. Despite the efforts of tutors, Louis was unable to pass the ancient languages requirement for acceptance at Yale and instead enrolled in 1890 into Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School for a three-year program, graduating along with his brother in the spring of 1893. For five years after college, Louis received the same $75 per month allowance plus expenses as did James Norman. Louis also began work immediately for the newly named Great Northern Railway and the Superior branch, the Eastern Railway. During this time Louis studied the iron ore deposits in Minnesota’s northern Mesabi Range, and purchased approximately 17,000 acres. Louis, along with James Norman, urged James J. Hill to acquire more ore-rich property and to buy the tiny railroad that linked the area to the GNR route. This was a spectacularly profitable move when large scale mining began in 1906. On June 6, 1901, Louis married Maud van Cortlandt Taylor at the bride’s brother’s home in New York City. Maud had grown up on Staten Island and came from a distinguished east coast family that had moved to St. Paul for a few years in the 1890s before returning to New York City. The couple honeymooned in Europe and returned to St. Paul to live briefly at the James J. Hill House until they rented the house across the street at 217 Summit while their home was under construction. Architect Clarence Johnston designed the large Georgian-style home next door to the Hill House at 260 Summit. The Louis Hill family, now including two infants, moved into their new home in December 1903. A large front section was added to the house in 1912, and included a second floor ballroom with pipe organ, four large guest bedrooms on the first floor, and a swimming pool in the basement. The family spent much time at the North Oaks farm, which Louis's mother gave him a year before her death in 1921. In 1910 Louis began purchasing orange grove property in the Redlands area of California as well as significant land at Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula where the family often wintered. In 1901, Louis was put in charge of a massive improvement program on the Great Northern line between Minot and the Rockies. This was successfully accomplished, and it soon became clear that Louis, not James Norman, would be the Empire Builder’s successor. Louis began taking over the railroad management in 1904-05, and in 1907 he succeeded his father as president, holding the position until 1919. He became board chairman in 1912 and held that position until 1929. Louis also succeeded his father as board chairman of the First National Bank of St. Paul. The revival of the St. Paul Winter Carnival was largely due to his efforts as carnival president in 1916 and 1917. These were grand civic festivals, which also promoted the Great Northern Railway and Glacier National Park tourism. In photographs Louis appears more dapper and stylish than his father. He displayed a creative side: painting, photography, and making home movies. He also amassed a significant collection of Blackfoot Indian artifacts; many of these are now part of the collections of the Science Museum of Minnesota. Louis was a good public speaker and did much to improve public relations with the Great Northern Railway. He popularized the phrase “See America First” and is credited with the construction of lodging, trails, roads, and other tourist attractions, as well as the promotion of travel to Glacier National Park. Louis lived at 260 Summit for the remainder of his life, although he traveled frequently. In 1930 he built a Swiss chalet style cottage at North Oaks as a “winter family retreat.” Louis and Maud separated in 1934, and Maud moved a few blocks away to Portland Avenue in St. Paul. Louis W. Hill died on April 27, 1948, in St. Paul [see obituary]. His funeral was at the Cathedral of St. Paul, and he was buried in the Hill family section at Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. After his death, the family home at 260 Summit served as a retreat house and conference center, “Maryhill,” operated by the Daughters of the Heart of Mary. In 2001 it once again became a single-family home and has been handsomely restored.
Thomas Newbold	Dec. 23, 1902	Thomas Newbold (May 19, 1849 – November 11, 1929) was an American lawyer, politician, and society leader during the Gilded Age. [see Wikipedia for a lengthy biography]
John Eliot Thayer	Feb. 5, 1903	Son of Nathaniel Thayer & Cornelia Patterson, John Eliot "Colonel" Thayer was born on Apr. 3, 1862 in Boston, MA and died on July 29, 1933 in Lancaster, MA [see obit part 1; part 2; estate bequests 1 & 2] He married Evelyn Duncan Forbes (1862 - 1943) in Clinton, MA on June 22, 1886. He graduated from Harvard University in 1885. He became interested in ornithology in the mid 1890s, building up a collection which he housed in a museum in the main street of Lancaster. He used his wealth to sponsor various natural history expeditions and in 1906 he sent Wilmot W. Brown to Guadalupe Island in Mexico. Here, Brown discovered that the natural vegetation was being destroyed by thousands of goats, to the detriment of the native wildlife. The native Guadalupe Storm-petrel was being predated by introduced cats, as was the Guadalupe Flicker. Both birds became extinct shortly afterwards. Thayer and Outram Bangs wrote an article in ''The Condor'' to draw attention to the situation. In 1913 Thayer and other Harvard graduates sponsored an expedition to Alaska and Siberia, with Joseph S. Dixon and Winthrop Sprague Brooks as zoological collectors. A gull collected by Brooks on this trip was named ''Larus thayeri'' in Thayer's honor. He became ill in 1928, and donated his collection of 28,000 skins and 15,000 eggs and nests to Harvard University photos to Harvard. These included the first clutches ever collected of Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Surfbird. After Thayer's death Harvard received his collection of 3,500 mounted birds. He is buried in the Old Settlers Burial Yard in Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA. His twin brother, Bayard Thayer, was a member of the Currituck Shooting Club and is listed elsewhere on this list.
Goodhue Livingston	Dec. 23, 1904	Goodhue Livingston was born in New York City on Feb. 23, 1867 and brought up between there and "Northwood" on the Livingston's Clermont's Manor estate. He studied architecture at Columbia University and co-founded Trowbridge & Livingston, of New York. They gained a reputation for public, institutional, and commercial buildings, though they took on occasional private commissions such as for the Ross House in Montreal. Livingston's social connections made him popular among many of New York's most important firms. Their best known works include: Banker's Trust Company Building at 14 Wall Street; Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History; the J.P. Morgan Building at 23 Wall Street; and, the Oregon State Capital. They also worked on other buildings such as Trumbauer's Equitable Trust Building; Chemical National Bank Building; the St. Regis Hotel; The Knickerbocker Hotel; and, the Ardsley Club. Livingston was Trustee of the New York Dispensary; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; Member of the Architectural League of New York; Governor of the Brook Club; and, a Member of the National Institute of Social Sciences. In 1896, he married Louisa, daughter of Senator J.H. Robb. They lived between 38 East 65th Street and Old Trees on Long Island. He died on June 3, 1951 [see obituary]. [see Wikipedia for a lengthy biography]
Oliver G. [Gould[ Jennings	Feb. 2, 1905	Oliver Gould Jennings was born Apr. 27, 1865 and died on Oct. 13, 1936 [see obituary and obituary #2]. He married Mary Dows (1871 - 1964), and their home was in Fairfield, CT. His father, Oliver Burr Jennings, was an original stockholder, holding 1,000 shares of Standard Oil from the original 10,000 shares. His wife, Esther Judson Goodsell, was the sister of Almira Geraldine Goodsell, who was married to William Avery Rockefeller (member of the Narrows Island Club and brother of John D. Rockefeller), who held 1,333 of the original shares. Oliver G. Jennings was educated at Phillips Andover, Yale University, and Columbia Law School. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives and on the boards of Bethlehem Steel, United States Industrial Alcohol Company, McKesson & Robbins (pharmaceutical), Kingsport Press, Signature Company, National Fuel Gas, and Grocery Store Products. His sister, Emma Brewster Jennings (1861 - 1942) married Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1858 - 1913), and their son, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1897 - 1976) was step-father of Gore Vidal and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. [see Wikipedia]
George S. [Stephenson] Brewster	Feb. 2, 1905	George Stephenson Brewster was born Sept. 15, 1868 in Cazenovia, NY and died Mar. 11, 1936 at Jekyll Island, GA [see obituary]. He was a 1891 graduate of Yale University and captain of the varsity crew team. He was a member of The Jekyll Island Club. The Club was a private club located on Jekyll Island, on the Georgia coastline. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting and recreational club purchased the island from John Eugune du Bignon. He was one of the largest shareholders of Standard Oil. He came to Saranac Lake in 1904 to recover from tuberculosis. He subsequently built Camp Longwood on Spitfire Lake, hiring architect Robert F. Stephenson in 1906-08 who designed a typical Adirondack “Great Camp” with separate buildings sited to blend into the woods. He served on the board of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium from 1909 until his death in 1936; he also served as secretary and treasurer. His father, Benjamin Brewster (1828-1897), opened the first hotel in Lake Placid, "Brewsters" in 1871, according to Frances Brewster's obituary. Brewster's daughters, opened a women's clothing shop in Lake Placid, the Frances Brewster Shop, in 1929 in Lake Placid. The business eventually grew into a chain, the Frances Brewster Ladies Apparel Shops in New York and Florida; the Lake Placid store burned to the ground in 1981. She built the Lake Placid Howard Johnson's in the early 1950s. Frances Brewster also bought the Lake Placid railroad station and donated it to the Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society.
[George] John Magee	Dec. 4, 1905	John Magee, son of George Jefferson Magee (1840-1897) & Emma Stothoff (1843-1927), was born Dec. 2, 1867 in Watkins Glen, NY and died July 15,1942 at Pebble Beach, CA [see obituary]. He married Florence Seeley (1871-1952). His grandfather was John Magee (1794-1868) who was a member of Congress and had banking & railroading industries. John was the president Fall Coal Company, Fall Brook Railway Co., Morris Run Coal Company, the Chest Creek Land and Improvement Company, the Tioga Improvement Company, and the Syrause, Geneva, and Corning Railroad. His family home was Glenfield, Watkins Glen, NY. He is buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Watkins Glen, Schuyler Co., NY.
Henry O. [Osborne] Havemeyer, II (sometimes referred to as Jr.")	Mar. 21, 1906	Henry Osborne Havemeyer, II was the son of Theodore Augustus Havemeyer (1839-1897 see Wikipedia). Henry was born on Apr.15, 1876 and died Feb. 12, 1965 [see obit part 1; part 2]. He was also a member and president of the Currituck Shooting Club in 1940. He was married to Charlotte Adelaide Green Whiting (1880 - 1962), and their home was in Mahwah, NJ. He never came to the club after the beginning of WWII, yet he kept his membership for the rest of his life. He continued the family's sugar interests, by then it was Domino Sugar, was head of the Brooklyn International Terminals, and was a director of Chase Manhattan Bank. His cousin, Electra Webb, asked him to donate some artifacts to her museum in Shelburne, VT, and he wrote to John W. Poyner, instructing him to ship his old decoys stored at the club to her. His letter explains that they were included in the package when he bought his membership from Charles H. Senff in 1906 (Mr. Senff's ownership of room 21 dated back to 1878). While those decoys from the Currituck Shooting Club, which are in the Museum at Shelburne, VT today are extant, they may be of Long Island origin.
J. [John] Insley Blair	June 21, 1907	John Insley Blair, brother of Clinton Ledyard Blair who is elsewhere on this list, was born in Belvedere, NJ on Dec.22, 1876 and died July 31, 1939 [see obituary].Tuxedo Park, NY. He was educated at the Browning School in New York City and at Princeton University. After graduating, he briefly joined the family banking firm, Blair & Co., but not being cut out for business he took early retirement in 1905 to live in the Adirondacks. From 1913, he made his home at Blairhame in Tuxedo Park and summered at Blair Eyrie in Bar Harbor, Maine. In Manhattan, he lived at 35 East 76th Street before moving to 4 East 61st Street. He was Chairman of the governing committee of the Tuxedo Club from 1925 to 1929, and a keen golfer, tennis and racquet player. In 1912, he married Natalie Bennett Knowlton. They became known as major art collectors and collectors of Americana, much of which was donated to the Museum of the City of New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the New-York Historical Society; and the Cooper Union.
Wm. P. [Pancoast] Clyde [Sr.]	Aug. 6, 1907	William Pancoast Clyde was born on Oct. 11, 1839 in Claymont, DE and died Nov. 18, 1923 Manhattan, NY (see obituary and estate). He owned Clyde Steamship Company, William P. Clyde & Co, and was a partner in Clyde - Mallory Steamship Co. His dock in Key West Florida, known as The Sunset Pier or Mallory Dock, is a popular gathering spot for Key Westers at sundown. He was married to Emeline Field (1841 - 1931), and they had several children. Mr. Clyde bought 9,000 acres in 1890 at Hilton Head, SC, for a private hunting preserve. He also owned a salmon camp on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick and another place at Ste. Anne des Monts, Quebec. He once wrote to Maud W. Poyner that he was at his camp in Canada, and that he was standing in the snow in his bedroom slippers picking raspberries for his breakfast. During his time in Currituck County, he bought marshes and hired local people to plant various duck foods, and even though his experiments were not successful, they were the feeble beginnings of Ducks Unlimited. He influenced Joseph P. Knapp to become a benefactor of the Currituck County Public Schools, and Mr. Clyde himself, donated $5,000 towards the first Poplar Branch High School in 1904, and when the second high school was built in 1918, he donated $18,000. His guide at the Currituck Shooting Club was Willis Doxey, who named his son, William Clyde Doxey after Mr. Clyde. Mary Poyner Glines used to tell that Mr. Clyde told her father, John Wesley Poyner, that he had more money than he had time, whereas most of us say the opposite. [see Wikipedia]
W.K. [William Kissam] Vanderbilt, II	May 6, 1908	William Kissam Vanderbilt, II was born on October 26, 1878, in New York City, the second child and first son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith. Known as Willie K., he was a brother to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt. Born to a life of luxury, he was raised in Vanderbilt mansions, traveled to Europe frequently, and sailed the globe on yachts owned by his father. Willie was educated by tutors and at St. Mark's School. He attended Harvard University but dropped out after two years. While a great part of his life was filled with travel and leisure activities, Willie's father put him to work at the family's New York Central Railroad offices at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. As such, in 1905 he joined other Vanderbilts on Fifth Avenue, building a townhouse at number 666. Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the New York Central Railroad Company, on his father's death in 1920 Willie inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. [see Wikipedia]
Horace Havemeyer	July 11, 1908	Horace Havemeyer, son of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, was born in NY on Mar. 19, 1886 & died in NY on Oct. 25, 1956 [see obit part 1 & part 2]. He married Doris Anna Dick (1890-1982) in Manhattan on Feb. 28, 1911. Horace continued in the family sugar business, as President of Havemeyer's & Elder, as well as holding offices in other refining, manufacturing, and banking enterprises. Horace & Doris are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Manhattan, NY.
Percy Chubb	Dec. 12, 1911	Percy Chubb was born Sept. 21, 1857 at Kensington, New South Wales, Australia and died June 14, 1930 in Drummondville, Quebec [see obituary part 1; part 2 and another obituary] He was married to Helen Low (May 24, 1864, San Francisco - Dec. 27, 1924, Cairo, Egypt) lived at Glen Cove, NY, and he was the leading marine underwriter in the United States. His company is known today as The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. He also owned a hunting lodge in Northern Virginia where he could entertain dignitaries from Washington, DC. He was in Canada on a fishing trip when he died.
John B.[Bartlett] Dennis	Oct. 1, 1912	John B. Dennis, financier and creator of modern Kingsport, was born in Gardiner, Maine, the eldest son of David and Julia Bartlett Dennis. His father was a prominent businessman and president of the Merchants National Bank of Gardiner, and Dennis received his early education in the local public schools and attended Cornell University for three years. At the end of his junior year, he transferred to Columbia College and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1887. During the following years he became involved in the investment and security business, working for several brokerage firms in Boston and New York. In 1890 he became associated with the newly organized private banking firm of Blair and Company of New York. Within three years Dennis had received a partnership in the firm, and for the next twenty years he engaged in banking, promotional, and reorganization activities. Around 1914 the directors of Kingsport Farms authorized Dennis, as the Blair and Company representative, to purchase approximately 6,355 acres of land in Sullivan and Hawkins Counties from the Carter Coal Company. The Kingsport Improvement Company (KIC) then purchased land for a proposed town from Kingsport Farms. With controlling interest in both companies, Dennis provided financial backing for the establishment of Kingsport. As proponents of progressivism and its emphasis on rationality, efficiency, and expertise, Dennis and KIC president J. Fred Johnson obtained advice from experts in city planning and government. When it was incorporated in 1917, Kingsport became the first Tennessee municipality with a city-manager form of government. From the beginning, the city was zoned for industrial, residential, and commercial development. The planners implemented an interlocking concept of industrial development that recruited specific industries designed to complement one another and advance technological change and growth. Dennis persuaded Kodak founder George Eastman to locate a plant in Kingsport. Dennis served as chairman of the board of Kingsport Press, which became one of the largest bookmakers in the world. In 1924 Dennis recruited Borden Mills of Massachusetts to locate a subsidiary mill in Kingsport. Dennis made Kingsport his primary residence and in 1928 purchased Rotherwood, a large nineteenth-century estate, where he entertained potential investors and industrialists. Augusta, Georgia, native Lola Anderson, a Cornell graduate and Kingsport’s resident landscape artist and nursery owner, married Dennis in 1929. Dennis sold Rotherwood to the U.S. Army in 1941, and the commanding officers of nearby Holston Defense Corporation lived there during the war. In 1946 Dennis exercised his option to repurchase the home and then sold it to Tennessee Eastman executive Herbert G. Stone. Dennis died in Asheville in 1947 [see obituary and funeral] and is buried in Kingsport. [Source: Tennessee Encyclopedia]
C. [Clinton] Ledyard Blair	Oct. 23, 1913	Clinton Ledyard Blair, son of DeWitt Clinton Blair (1833-1915) and Mary Anna Kimball, was born in Belvedere, NJ on July 16, 1867 and died in Manhattan, NY on Feb. 7, 1949 [see obituary part 1 and part 2]. His paternal grandfather was John_Insley_Blair who was one of the wealthiest men of the 19th century. He was a brother of J. Insley Blair who joined the Currituck Shooting Club in 1907. He attended the Lawrenceville School and then Princeton University, graduating in 1890 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He married 1st Florence Osborne Jennings (1869-1931) and 2nd Harriet Stewart Brown (1884-1953). He is buried in Baint Bernard's Cemetery, Bernardsville, NJ. [see Wikipedia]
Chas. M. [Merrill] Chapin	Oct. 23, 1913	Charles Merrill Chapin, son of George Washington Chapin & Salome Hanna, was born in Cleveland, OH on Apr. 19, 1871 and died in Thomasville, GA on Dec. 21, 1932 [see obituary and funeral]. He married Esther Maris "Lili" Lewis (1871-1959) in Hoboken, NJ on May 19, 1893. In the 1920 census Charles and his family, along with his 21 year old son and 5 servants, were living at 79 Park Ave. in NY City. He was listed as a "capitalist". He was a Trustee of St. Joseph Lead Co. He is buried in Saint Bernards Cemetery in Bernardsville, Somerset Co., NJ.
Frederick F. [Foster] Brewster	Nov. 24, 1913	Frederick Foster Brewster was born in Irvington, NY on Aug. 13, 1872 and died Sept. 16, 1958 in New Haven, CT [see obituary]. He married Margaret Fitch (1884 - 1963). He was secretary/treasurer of his father's saddlery hardware factory until it was sold in 1919, and from then on he served as director of banks and public utility companies. He lived in New Haven, Ct. He owned a large estate in Dublin, NH. His son, Frederick Brewster (Sept. 11, 1913 - Dec. 4, 2004) was also a member of the Currituck Shooting club [see him further down this list]. He died in Key Largo, Fl, and was married/divorced to Hildegarde Eunice Sanborn (1916 - 2010). Frederick & Margaret are buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, CT.
F.L. [Frederick Lothrop] Ames [Jr.]	June 1, 1914	Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. was born July 23, 1876, in North Easton, Massachusetts. He was the second son of Frederick Lothrop Ames, Sr. and Rebecca Caroline (Blair) Ames, and went by the name "Lothrop." The Ames were fairly prominent in 19th century New England society, and a major presence in small North Easton. Lothrop's father Frederick Sr. was considered by many to be the wealthiest man in Massachusetts. Frederick Sr. died at age 58 in 1893, leaving young Lothrop fatherless and extremely wealthy at age seventeen. Lothrop received an A.B. degree from Harvard College in 1898. In 1902, he purchased the yacht Vigilant, which had won the America's Cup back in 1893. He married Edith Callender Cryder, daughter of Duncan Cryder of New York, on May 31, 1904, at Trinity Church in New York City. They had two children, Frederick and Mary. Lothrop had interests in the family shovel business and served on the boards of directors of many companies, including banks, mining companies, railroads, power companies, hospitals, dredging companies, and more. He was involved with the breeding of Guernsey cattle and was a prominent member of the Massachusetts Guernsey Breeders Association. Lothrop kept an office in the family-owned Ames Building in Boston. Lothrop took ill on May 1, 1921, had surgery on May 6, appeared to recover on June 11, but died on June 19 [see obit part 1 and part 2] at his home in North Easton. His funeral was held June 22 at the Unity Church of North Easton which his family had attended for many years. He was buried at the Village Cemetery behind the church.
Geo. [George] Von L. Meyer	Sept. 7, 1914	George von Lengerke Meyer was born in Boston, MA on June 24, 1858 –and died in Boston on March 9, 1918 [see obit part 1 and obit part 2]. He is buried in Hamilton Cemetery in Hamilton, Essex Co., MA. He was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, as United States Postmaster General from 1907 to 1909 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1909 to 1913 during the administration of President William Howard Taft. [see Wikipedia for a full biography]
William Woodward [Sr.]	Oct. 6, 1914	William Woodward, born in New York City April 7, 1876, graduated from Harvard University, A. B., 1898; A. M., 1899; LL. B., Harvard Law School, 1901; member of the New York Bar, 1901. He served as private secretary to Ambassador Choate at the Court of St. James, 1901-1907. He was married Oct. 24, 1904, to Elizabeth Ogden, daughter of Duncan and Elizabeth (Ogden) Cryder, of New York City, and they resided at No. 11 West Fifty-first street, New York City. Their summer residence was at Mount Kisco, N. Y. He belonged to the Union, Knickerbocker, Coaching and Racquet Clubs of New York City, the Maryland Society of New York City, the Bachelors and St. James Clubs of London, and the Porcelain Club of Cambridge, Mass. In 1902 he was elected vice-president of the Hanover National Bank of New York City. He died in NY City on Sept. 25, 1953 and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY. [see Wikipedia for a lengthy biography]
J. [John] Sanford Barnes	Dec. 18, 1917	John Sanford Barnes was born in Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ on Feb. 5, 1870 and died Apr.30, 1942 in Manhattan, NY [see estate]. He was an 1890 Yale graduate, and he appears to have been a bachelor. He was vice president and president of Interlake Pulp & Paper, treasurer, vice president, and president of Great Northern Paper Co., Dillon & Barnes (agents for paper mill supplies).
J.P. [John Pierpont] Morgan [Jr.]	Dec. 21, 1917	John Pierpont "Jack" Morgan, Jr. was bon in Irvington, NY on Sept. 7, 1867 and died at Boca Grande, FL on Mar. 13, 1943. He was an American banker, finance executive, and philanthropist. He inherited the family fortune and took over the business interests, including J.P. Morgan & Co., after his father J. P. Morgan died in 1913. [see Wikipedia for a more detailed biography]
Wm. P. [Pancoast] Clyde, Jr.	Dec. 9, 1918	William Pancoast Clyde, Jr., son of Wm. P. Clyde, Sr. & Emeline Field Hill , was born in Brooklyn, NY on Nov. 26, 1878 and died in Suitland, MD on May 19.,1967. He prepared at Hill School in Pottstown, PA. and was a member of Kappa Psi, Psi Epsilon and Scroll & Key. He graduated with a BA Degree in 1901. He lived at 1 West 51st St. in NY City and worked at Clyde Steamship Co. on State St. in NY City. He was married briefly to an Englishwoman, Dora Jeslyn Ellen Taylor of London. The marriage was over by 1925, but it produced two sons: William Pancoast Clyde "Little Billy" (1912 - 1985), an Olympic skier and British flyer during World War II [see photo] and Capt. Thomas Clyde (1917-1999), film producer, who married (1) Lady Elizabeth Wellesley (1918-2013, daughter of the 7th Duke of Wellington. They have a son, Michael Jeremy Thomas Clyde (b/ 1941), famous actor and singer, and half of the signing duo, Chad & Jeremy. Thomas Clyde served in the Royal Horse Guards and married (2) Mary Peach.
John H. [Hill] Prentice	Oct. 6, 1919	John Hill Prentice was born July 11, 1874 in Old Saybrook, CT and died Oct. 1, 1925 in Montauk, NY. [see obituary and another obituary]. He married Kate Sheldon Harrison (1878-1941). They are buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. The stock broker left a gross estate of $1,875,938, the bulk of which goes to his widow and two daughters, according to an appraisal filed in the office of the State Tax Commission in November 1925. The net estate is valued at $1,434,786. He was also the director of the Alabama Great Southern, and Virginia and Southwestern railroads.
S.B.P. [Samuel Breck Parkman] Trowbridge	Oct. 30, 1919	Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge was born in NY City on May 20, 1862 and died Jan. 29, 1925 [see obituary]. He was an architect. He was notorious at the club because he was the only member who shot ducks and geese using a bow and arrow. And he killed some, too! He was educated at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct, Columbia University School of Mines, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He worked under George B. Post, and he was in partnership with Goodhue Livingston, both also members of the Currituck Shooting Club. He was married to Sophia Pennington Tailer (1871 - 1951). Goodhue Livingston (Feb. 23, 1867 - June 3, 1951) was married to Louisa Robb (1871 - 1969). Their firm was known as Trowbridge & Livingston, and it was also in partnership with Stockton B. Colt.
Richard [Charles Ritchie] Simpkins	Oct. 30, 1919	Charles Ritchie Simpkins, son of John Simpkins (1831-1870) & Ruth Barker Sears (1831-1882), was born July 11, 1867 in Yarmouth, MA and died in Yarmouth Port, MA on June 15, 1931 of myocarditis [see obituary]. According to census records, he never married. After his father's death in Nov. 1870, his mother and his siblings went to live with her bachelor brother-in-law, Nathaniel Stone Simpkins, Jr. in 1880. The 1900 Yarmouth, MA census shows Charles Richard Simpkins, age 32 & single , as the head of house.. His younger, single sister, Mabel is living with him as well as 3 servants. His occupation was listed as capitalist. He is buried in Woodside Cemetery in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA.
Arthur & Oliver Iselin	Nov. 10, 1919	Brothers, Arthur and Oliver Iselin, were sons of William Emil Iselin and Alice Rogers Jones. Arthur Iselin (Apr. 7, 1878 - May 6, 1952 [see obit part 1; part 2]) married Eleanor Jay (1882 - 1953). See Oliver Islin listed below joining Dec. 1, 1924.
James A. [Alexander] Stillman	Nov. 14, 1919	James Alexander Stillman was born in NY City on Aug. 18, 1873 and died Jan. 13, 1944 [see obituary 1 and obituary 2]. His father was James Jewett Stillman who controlled the National City Bank of New York. James A. Stillman was briefly chairman of National City Bank of New York, and he was married/divorced to Anne Urquhart Potter (1879 - 1969), who remarried to Harold Fowler McCormick, grandson of Cyrus Hall McCormick.
Nathaniel Thayer	Dec. 31, 1919	Nathaniel Thayer, son of Bayard Thayer (1862-1916) & Ruth Simpkins (1864-1941), was born in Boston, MA on Nov. 14, 1898 & died in Lancaster, MA on Feb. 19, 1927. His 1918 WWI Draft Card states that he was a student at Harvard University and that his nearest relative is his mother, "Mrs. Bayard Thayer". He is buried in Lancaster, MA in the Thayer Cemetery with his parents. No known marriage or obituary has been found. He lived at 84 Beacon St. in Boston which is now called the Hampshire House, a turn-of-the-century mansion on historic Beacon Hill, where generations of Bostonians and their guests have wined, dined, and danced the night away. Designed and built in 1910 by the society architect, Ogden Codman, for fellow Brahmins, Bayard and Ruth Thayer, the five story Georgian revival townhouse was lavished with Italian marble, carved oak paneling, crystal chandeliers and tall Palladian windows. Those windows not only looked out onto the Victorian elegance of the Boston Public Garden, but they also looked into the social world of Boston’s elite, as 84 Beacon Street became one of the most fashionable salons in the city. Gentlemen in top hats and tails and ladies in silk and satin ascended the grand staircase to the heart of the house for gala evenings in the Ballroom and Library. The Hampshire House acquired its name during World War II when the Thayer family sold the building. It was then leased as a small private luxury hotel to the owners of the Lincolnshire Hotel on Charles Street. They dubbed the mansion the Hampshire House (Lincolnshire and Hampshire were both English counties). Thomas A. Kershaw has been the owner of the Hampshire House since 1969. Since then, the Hampshire House has been the ideal choice for special occasions. Its interior decor gives an aura of those grand days when the Thayers entertained in their magnificent mansion on Beacon Hill.
Geo. F. [George Fisher] Baker Jr.	Apr. 28, 1921	George Fisher Baker, Jr. (Mar. 19, 1878 - May 30, 1937 see obituary), was married to Edith Brevoort Kane (1884 - 1977). His father had put together a vast fortune after the Civil War in railroads and banking, and he was considered the third richest man in the United States, after Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. He was a co-founder of the First National Bank of the City of New York (Citigroup today). An obituary for George Fisher Baker, Jr. estimated his fortune between $150,000,000 and $500,000,000 in 1937.
Reginald Brooks	Dec. 27, 1921	Reginald Brooks, son of Henry Mortimer Brooks & Josephine Higguns, was born Mar. 1, 1873 and died Mar. 1, 1957 [see obituary part 1; and part 2] He is buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, East Hampton, Suffolk Co., NY. He received his AB Degree from Harvard in 1896. He married 3 times - 1st Phullis Langhorne; 2nd Mary Lizabeth Long; 3rd Vonda Case Stahofski, a screen actress known professionally as Vonda Case. His residence in NY City was 16 East 71st St. but after 1930 he resided in West Palm Beach, FL.
Elliot C. [Cowdin] Bacon	May 26, 1922	Elliot Cowdin Bacon (July 4, 1888 - Sept. 27, 1924) graduated from Harvard in 1910. He was a Captain in the 304th field artillery, 77th division in WW I. He was a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. He married Hope L. Norman (1894 - 1978) His sister, Martha Bacon, was married to George Whitney, also a Currituck Shooting Club member and partner at J. P. Morgan & Co. [see obituary 1 and obituary 2]
E. [Elbridge] Gerry Chadwick	July 19, 1922	Elbridge Gerry Chadwick (Sept. 11, 1881 - Mar. 23, 1945 see obituary) was born in Boston, the son of gynecologist, Dr. James Read Chadwick. Gerry Chadwick was VP of Brown Wheelock, a real estate firm, and at one time he was manager of Vincent Astor's estate that he inherited from his father, John Jacob Astor. His home was at 123 E 79th St., NYC, and in 1926 he married Dorothy May Jordan (Robinson), an heiress of the Jordan Marsh Department Store family of Boston and Miami. John Jacob Astor is known to have been present at the Currituck Shooting Club, apparently as a guest, because there is no record of him ever being a member. A distant cousin, Capt. Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn, was a member. He was born Nov. 1, 1844 and died Nov. 20, 1919. He attended Columbia University, but dropped out to join the Union forces during the Civil War. He was at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant. He was a Trustee of Columbia University, and he donated his yacht for service during the Spanish American War. It is very likely that he is who brought John Jacob Astor to the Currituck Shooting Club, where he hired local servants during his visits there.
Oliver Iselin	Dec. 1, 1924	Oliver Iselin, the son of William Emil Iselin and Alice Rogers Jones, was born June 29, 1887 -and died Oct. 7, 1963 [see obituary and funeral] . He married (1) Dorothy Hyde (1890 - 1949) and (2) Mary Barton Atterbury (1882 - 1975). The Iselin brothers had banking and textile interests including interests in Woodside Mills of Greenville, SC, Dan River Mills, and the Southern Railway System. They were also avid yachtsmen. Oliver Iselin lived at 475 Park Ave. See his brother, Arthur Iselin, listed above joining Nov. 10, 1919.
Louis C. [Crawford] Clark, Jr.	Mar. 9, 1925	Louis Crawford Clark, Jr. was born in Roslyn, Long Island, NY on Jan. 18, 1881 and died there on Mar. 10, 1933 [see obituary]. He received a Bachelor's Degree from Harvard in 1902. He married Frances Stokes (1888 - 1967) in Philadelphia, PA on May 1, 1915. This marriage ended in divorce and she remarried in 1933 to Harold H. Weekes. [see marriage announcement] Louis was in the Naval Intelligence Dept. from Aug. 25, 1917 until Sept. 25, 1919. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY.
Reginald Fincke	Dec. 4, 1925	Reginald Fincke was born Nov. 26, 1878 in Utica, NY and died May 10, 1956 in Manhattan, NY [see obituary]. Reginald was the son of Frederick Getman Fincke and Mary Ann Deshon. He married Edith Gilbert Clark (1800 - 1966). Edith was the daughter of George Crawford Clark, Sr. & Harriet Averall. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Harvard in 1901, He was a member of the Harvard Club, Racquet & Tennis Club. He entered the banking house of Clark, Dodge & Co. in New York and joined the NY Stock Exchange in 1904.. His personal residence was 21 East 84th St. in NY City and his business address was 51 Wall St., NYC. He is buried in Southampton Cemetery in Suffok Co., NY.
Frederic N. [Newell] Watriss	Aug. 19, 1926	Frederic Newell Watriss was born in Milwarkee, Wisconsin on Mar. 9, 1871 and died Apr. 10, 1938 [see obituary]. He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, Nassau Co., NY. He married 3 times: (1) Sara Dayton Thomson Wetmore (1876 - 1932) (2) Helen Barney (1852 - 1922) (dau. of Charles T. Barney, member of Narrows Island Club) (3) Brenda Germaine Williams-Taylor (Perry) (1889 - 1948) He was an attorney in NY City practicing from his office at 32 Nassau St. and was also President of Belmont Hotel Co.
George C. [Crawford] Clark, Jr.	Oct. 1, 1927	George Crawford Clark, II, son of George C. Clark, Sr. (seen elsewhere in this list) & Harriet Averell, was born in Manhattan, NY on Feb. 8, 1879 and died in Southampton, Suffolk Co., NY on Aug. 17, 1974. He is buried in Southampton Cemetery. He married Gertrude Sard in Albany, NY on May 10, 1903. In 1940 George was listed as a broker at the stock exchange. They had 4 servants in the home at East 72nd Street in Manhattan, NY.
Henry W. [Worthington] Bull	Nov. 7, 1927	Henry Worthington Bull, son of William Lanman Bull & Sara Newton, was born in Montclair, NJ on Mar. 27, 1874 and died in Los Angeles, CA on Aug, 6, 1958 [see obituary & funeral]. His father had been President of the NY Stock Exchange from 1888-1890. Henry, a frequent guest of Ruth and Ogden Mills, had an exciting life alongside presidents and movie stars. In 1898, Bull left Wall Street to serve in the Spanish-American War with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders [see photograph]. The young stockbroker was part of the “Fifth Avenue Boys” or “Millionaire Recruits,” as they were called by the newspapers. In June 1898 his unit arrived in Cuba and garnered fame following the Battle of San Juan Hill. Later, In 1910, Bull hand-delivered a reunion invitation to his former-commander, former-President Theodore Roosevelt, in London. After the war, Bull reentered New York society. Following the death of his fellow-Rough Rider, William Tiffany, Bull began courting Tiffany's love-interest; Maud Maria Livingston (1837-1962 see her estate settlement part 1 and part 2), a daughter of the prominent Livingston family and member of Newport society. After her year of mourning for Tiffany, Maud and Henry became close and married in 1904. The couple had no children, but adopted Maud’s two nieces, Phyllis and Kathleen Baker. In 1933, Phyllis married dancer/actor Fred Astaire, a close horse-racing associate of her uncle, and visited the Bull estate often in Aiken, South Carolina. Henry was a partner in the brokerage house of Bull, Holden & Co. He was also a member of the firm Harriman and Company, was vice president of the Compania Cubana and of the Oriental Consolidating Mining Company. The couple was well known in Manhattan and Long Island society. Bull was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the Racquet and Tennis Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Turf and Field Club and the Westminster Kennel Club. Both the Bull and Livingston families traced their American roots back for generations. Henry was a member of the Mayflower Descendants and the Sons of the Revolution.
Wm. B. [Butler] Duncan [Sr.]	Nov. 23, 1927	William Butler Duncan was born on May 1, 1862, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of David Duncan (1835–1873) and Fannie Bloodgood Duncan (1832–1874). After his parents' early deaths, young William was adopted by his paternal uncle, W. Butler Duncan His adoptive father (and uncle) was born in Edinburgh and became a banker in New York and chairman of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. From 1858 to 1896, the Duncan family maintained a residence on Grymes Hill, Staten Island, in the former home of the neighborhood's namesake Suzette Grymes. William II graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1882. After graduation from the Naval Academy, Duncan stayed in the U.S. Navy for two years until 1884, serving on the USS Vandalia. In 1891, he was one of the organizers of the 1st Battalion of the New York Naval Militia, and served as commanding officer of one of its divisions. During the Spanish–American War, he served on the USS Yankee, and in World War I he was a Commander in the Naval Reserve. William joined the New York Yacht Club in 1889, serving as Rear Commodore in 1891 and 1892, and as Vice Commodore in 1893. He was on the Race Committee in 1900, and served on the Membership Committee for eleven years and on several rules committees, playing a key role in the club's long defense of the America's Cup. In 1891, Duncan married Blanche Maximillian "Blanca" Havemeyer (1871–1958) at the Havemeyer cottage on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Blanca was the daughter of Theodore Havemeyer and Emilie (née de Loosey) Havemeyer. William was buried at sea from the USS Cole with full Naval honors [see his obituary and burial as sea] His marker is in North Burial Ground, Providence, RI.
Arthur O. [Osgood] Choate	Dec. 6, 1927	Arthur Osgood Choate was born in Pleasantville, NY on Apr. 7, 1875 and died there on June 18, 1962 [see funeral notice]. He was married in 1907 to Ann Hyde Clark (1886-1967) who was a prominent leader in the Girl Scouts of the USA. Anne was a survivor of the Titanic along with her sister & brother, although her father perished. Arthur's brothers were William Choate who founded the Choate School, and Joseph Choate, US Ambassador to Great Britain. He was an investment broker and partner of Potter, Choate & Prentice and after it dissolved he became the senior partner of Clark, Dodge & Co. As well as being a member of the Currituck Shooting Club, he was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club.
J. [James] Watson Webb	Dec. 12, 1927	Executive, philanthropist and polo champion, James Watson Webb was the son of Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt (1860–1936) of the Vanderbilt family and William Seward Webb. He was born July 1, 1884 in Burlington, VT. His siblings included Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, William Seward Webb, Jr., and Vanderbilt Webb. His paternal grandparents were James Watson Webb, the United States Ambassador to Brazil during Abraham Lincoln's administration, and Laura Virginia Cram. His paternal uncles included H. Walter Webb, a noteworthy railway executives, and Alexander Stewart Webb, a noted Civil War general. His maternal grandparents were William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria (née Kissam) Vanderbilt. Webb attended and graduated from the Groton School and received an A.B. from Yale University in 1907. In 1910, he was married to Electra Havemeyer, daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer and Louisine Waldron Elder. Together, they were the parents of five children. In 1921, and, again in 1924 and 1927, he played on the American polo team that won the International Polo Cup from England at the Meadowbrook Polo Club. His teammates in 1921 were Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., and Devereaux Milburn. His teammates in 1924 were Hitchcock, Malcolm Stevenson, Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr. and Milburn, and in 1927, they were Hitchcock, Stevenson and Milburn. The Cup was the most anticipated event on the sporting calendar in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. Webb, a left hander, was named America's all-time all-star polo team in 1934 by Louis E. Stoddard, chairman of the United States Polo Association. James died at his home, 740 Park Avenue in New York City on March 4, 1960. His widow died a little over eight months later on November 19, 1960.
George Whitney	June 17, 1929	George Whitney was born in Boston, MA on Oct. 9, 1888 and died in Manhattan, NY on July 22, 1963 [see obit part 1; part 2. He married Martha Beatrix Bacon (1890 - 1967) He is buried at Memorial Cemetery of Saint John's Church, Laurel Hollow, Nassau Co., NY. He was a partner in the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. His brother, Richard Whitney (1888 - 1974) was president of the New York Stock Exchange from 1930 - 1935 , and he served time in Sing Sing Prison for an embezzlement conviction in 1938.
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr.	June 6, 1930	Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr. was born in Manhattan, NY on Mar. 7, 1879 and died at Syosett, Nassau Co., NY on Apr. 25, 1936 [see obituary and estate 1 and estate 2]. He married Ruth Langdon Emery (1881-1966) in Cambridge, MA in 1906. He was an attorney, Governor of the New York Hospital. Lewis' father was a partner in the firm of Carterm Ledyard & Milburn, personal counsel to J.P. Morgan and was the President of the NY City Bar Association. He oversaw the redistribution of the American Tobacco Co. after it was ruled to be broken up.
Willard [Sears] Simpkins	Feb. 8, 1933	Willard Sears Simpkins, son of Nathaniel Stone Simpkins (1861-1919) & Mabel Jenks (1864-1935), was born June 26, 1895 in France and died Sept. 30, 1967 in Bedford Hills, NY [see obituary]. He is buried in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard in Bedford, NY. He married Augusta Peabody Prescott on Aug. 30, 1917 in Boston, MA. Willard was the nephew of Charles Ritchie Simpkins who is listed above on this list.
Chauncey D. [Devereux] Stillman	Apr. 10, 1933	Chauncey Devereux Stillman was born in Dec. 14, 1907 in NY and died Jan. 24, 1989 in NY [see obituary], an heir to one of America's great family banking fortunes. Mr. Stillman was a Harvard man (Class of 1929), a graduate of the Columbia School of Architecture, and at various times Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, director of the National Audubon Society and New York Botanical Garden, WW II air combat intelligence officer, and pioneer in soil and water conservation on his Dutchess County estate. His philanthropic father, Charles Chauncey Stillman (1877-1926), was one of Harvard's greatest benefactors. His grandfather, James Jewett Stillman (1850-1918) was the 15th richest man in America, a distinction achieved by parlaying his father's Texas banking and railroad interests into, among other things, controlling interest in the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank). At age 26, grandfather Stillman bankrolled Porfirio Diaz in the successful overthrow of the Mexican government. For his trouble he obtained unlimited riparian rights on the Rio Grande at Brownsville, Texas, plus valuable Mexican railroad concessions. Mr. Stillman's great-grandfather, Charles, was a Texas land and banking mogul who founded the city of Brownsville. There was nothing parvenu about Chauncey Stillman. On January 27, 1939, Chauncey Stillman married Theodora Moran Jay, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. DeLancey Kane Jay of Westbury, Long Island. The bride was a descendant of John Jay, America's first Chief Justice, and Edwin D. Morgan, Civil War Governor of New York. According to the Times, the ceremony was held in a "tiny chapel in the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Edwin D. Morgan." Coincident with his marriage the groom hired architect Bancel LaFarge, a lingering Beaux Artiste in an era of unforgiving Art Moderne, to design a Georgian style house on the highest point of farmland he had been acquiring since 1937. Beaux Arts or no, LaFarge's design - especially the interior finishes - is thoroughly modern. I have read, apropos of architecture, of the "scaled down taste" of the '20s and '30s. Wethersfield exemplifies the statement. It is a house for a man who can afford anything, but neither cares for nor wants to be bothered with the architectural elaboration of earlier generations. After his 1949 divorce, Mr. Stillman converted to Catholicism and soon became an ardent proponent of all things Catholic. During his lifetime he endowed the Stillman Chair for Catholic Studies at Harvard and was sufficiently active in Catholic charities to be honored as a Gentiluomo de Sua Santita by the Holy See. On a more domestic level he converted the small reception room at Wethersfield into a private chapel. (Source: WikiTree)
F. [Frank] Gilbert Hinsdale	July 18, 1933	Frank Gilbert Hinsdale, son of James Henry Hinsdale & Mary Livingston Gilbert, was born in Pittsfield, MA on Feb. 11, 1874 and died in Manhattan, NY on Oct. 12, 1940 [see obituary]. He is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA. He graduated from Yale in 1898 and married Martha Means on Oct. 1, 1904 in New Bedford, MA [see announcement & marriage]. After graduation he was with Clarence Whitman & Co., cotton goods. He applied for several patents regarding textile machines and whaling implements. He was the general manager & treasurer of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Co. and was an officer of the Brunswick Fox Hound Club. He was a collector of whaling memoralbilia, an art lover, an inventor and an avid swordfisherman. Much of his collection of whaling harpoons and scrimshaw, engraved bone that usually comes from whales, was donated to the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 1959.
Dunbar W. [Wright] Bostwick	Jan. 2, 1934	Dunbar Wright Bostwick (Jan.10, 1908 - Jan.25, 2006 see funeral article) was married to Electra Webb (1910 - 1982), daughter of J. Watson Webb and Electra Havemeyer.. His grandfather, Jabez Bostwick, was an original partner and corporate treasurer of Standard Oil. Dunbar Bostwick was a polo player, and he landed his plane at the edge of the beach near the surf east of the clubhouse when visiting the Currituck Shooting Club. He provides a link to some other members - His sister, Dorothy Stokes Bostwick (1899 - 2001), was married first to William Thomas Sampson Smith (1900 - 1983), who was a member of the Currituck Shooting Club. She remarried to Joseph Campbell, who was Comptroller General under President Eisenhower. Another sister of Dunbar Bostwick, Lillian Bostwick (1906 - 1987) married first Robert Vanderburgh McKim. Her second husband was Ogden Phipps (1908 - 2002) (US Steel heir), whose family owned a hunting lodge at Buxton at Cape Hatteras, and they donated much of the land that became part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. With her first husband, Robert Vanderburgh McKim (1900 - 1960), she had a daughter, Lillian Lee Bostwick "Lilly" McKim (1931 - 2013), who married (1) Herbert Peter Pulitzer (1930 - 2018), and (2) Enrique Fernando Rousseau (1917 - 1993). She was known as "Lilly Pulitzer" of Palm Beach in fashion circles. Dunbar Bostwick's brother, George Herbert "Pete" Bostwick (1909 - 1982) married first to Laura E. Curtis (1913 - 2003), and their daughter was Laura Bostwick of Wanchese, NC (Nov.25, 1944 - May 3, 2021). Robert V. McKim, mentioned above, had a sister, Cicely Albert McKim (1898 - 1995), who married James Mansfield Symington (Dec.2, 1894 - May, 1961), also a member of the Currituck Shooting club. He was president of the Public Service Coordinated Transport Corporation of Newark, New Jersey.
Frederick [Foster] Brewster, II	Jan. 15, 1934	Frederick Brewster, II, son of Frederick Foster Brewster & Margaret Fitch, was born in Hampden, CT on Sept. 11, 1913 and died in Key Largo, FL on Dec. 4, 2004. He married Hildegard Eunice Sanborn (1916-2010) on June 11, 1937 in St. Paul, MN [see marriage announcement]. Frederick and Eunice H. Brewster are living in St. Paul, MN when the 1940 census was taken. Frederick is listed as a broker and they have 2 maids living with them.
Lawrence B. [Bell] Van Ingen	Jan. 21, 1934	Lawrence Bell Van Ingen (Oct. 18, 1898 - Oct. 31, 1943 see obituary) was a stockbroker, and had graduated from Harvard in 1921. He married/divorced Harriet Balsden Pratt (1901-1978), daughter of Herbert L. Pratt (1871-1947), whose brother, George Dupont Pratt (1869-1935) was a member of the Narrows Island Club. Their father, Charles Pratt, had merged his oil company, Charles Pratt and Co., with John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874. Charles Pratt was also the founder of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Herbert L. Pratt was head of Standard Oil of New York, which became Mobiloil. Lawrence is buried in Washington Cemetery on the Green in Litchfield Co., CT.
Herbert L. [Lowell] Dillon [Sr.]	May 1, 1934	Herbert Lowell Dillon (Feb. 9, 1885 - Jan. 7, 1968 see obituary) was captain of the football team and a 1907 Princeton graduate. The gym at Princeton University is the Herbert Lowell Dillon Gymnasium. He was partner with fellow club member, Thomas C. Eastman, in the investment banking firm of Eastman & Dillon Co, which later became part of Paine Webber. He married/divorced Hope Bush (1901 - 1992), and they had two children: Herbert L. Dillon, Jr. (1925 - 2003) and Hope Dillon Ritchie (1927 - 1997).
Arthur H. [Hazelton] Carter	Aug. 29, 1934	Arthur Hazelton Carter, son of Thomas Allen Carter & Adda Jetmore, was born in Hillsboro, Kansas on Jan. 6, 1884 and died in Greenwich, CT on Jan. 3, 1965 [see obituary]. He graduated from West Point in 1905 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery. He served in the Philippines, at Forts Riley and Leavenworth, Kansas, and as an advisor to National Guard units in several Midwestern states. He served at Fort Myer, Virginia from 1912 to 1915, when he resigned to go into banking. In 1917 he returned to uniform for World War I, and advanced to Colonel as organizer and commander of the Field Artillery Officers Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. After the war he became a partner in the accounting firm Haskins & Sells, a predecessor of the defense contractor Deloitte & Touche. He received his Certified Public Accountant qualification and advanced to Senior Partner in 1927. During his business career, he was a Vice President of the American Institute of CPA's, President of the New York State Society of CPA’s, and President of the National Association of Accountants. During World War II he was Fiscal Director of Army Service Forces with the rank of Major General. He retired from Haskins & Sells in 1947, and his decorations included two awards of the Army Distinguished Service Medal. He is buried at Putnam Cemetery in Greenwich, CT.
Eugene S. [Smith] Wilson	Jan. 22, 1936	Eugene Smith Wilson, son of Robert Patterson Wilson and Mary Jeanette Smith, was born in Bloomfield, NJ on May 30, 1879 and died in NY on Dec. 19, 1937 [see obituary]. He received his BA Degree from Amherst College in 1902 and his Bachelor of Law Degree from Washington University in 1904. He married Margaret Gray Whitelaw in St. Louis, MO on Sept. 20, 1904. He became VP at AT&T in 1920; Trustee of the Deerfield Academy; Active in work for Deerfield-Amherst; Recipient of Amherst's Medal of Distinguished Service (First Alumni to receive it). He was friends with Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Morrow and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Samuel B. [Blatchley] Webb	Sept. 23, 1936	Samuel Blatchley Webb, son of James Watson Webb (also on this list) and Electra Havemeyer, was born in Manhattan, NY on Feb. 22, 1912 and died at Shelburne, VT on Aug. 28, 1988 [see obituary part 1; part 2 & part 3; and funeral]. He was 1st married on June 1, 1935 to Elizabeth Richey Fisk Johnson and 2nd to Martha Trinkle. He and Martha are buried in Quaker Smith Point in Shelburne, VT.
Cornelius Von E. [Erden] Mitchell	Dec. 9, 1936	Cornelius Von Erden Mitchell, son of Cornelius Berrien Mitchell and Mary Elizabeth Davis, was born in NY on June 8, 1883 and died in NY on Feb. 20, 1966. [see the sharing of his estate] He was listed in the 1930 census as a broker and an attorney who worked on Madison Ave. at Mitchell & VanWinkle, attorneys. No records have been uncovered of Cornelius ever getting married.
Harold T. [Tredway] White	Feb. 5, 1937	Harold Tredway White (Oct. 10, 1875 - Aug. 11, 1960 see obituary), succeeded Vanderbilt Webb as president of the Currituck Shooting Club in 1956. He was an investment banker and a principal in White & Weld Co., and he was chairman of the Hackensack Water Co., director of Federal Insurance Co, and president of Provident Loan Society. His wife was Ruth Underhill (1874 - 1944), granddaughter of Charles A. Dana, famous New York newspaperman.
Vanderbilt Webb	Nov. 8, 1937	Vanderbilt was the youngest child of Dr. William Seward Webb [Sr.] and his wife, Eliza "Lila" Osgood Vanderbilt Webb. He was born Apr. 23, 1891 in Manhattan, NY. He attended Yale, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. In 1912, he married Aileen Clinton Hoadley Osborn (1892-1979), and they had five children. Vanderbilt pursued a law career, both in private practice and as special counsel to the Rockefeller Foundation. He also served briefly as a Captain in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. He ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for the New York State Assembly in 1925. After his mother died in 1936, Vanderbilt purchased his siblings’ inheritance shares in the main portion of Shelburne Farms, which included the Farm Barn, Coach Barn, and Shelburne House. He and his wife maintained residences at Shelburne House and in Garrison-on-Hudson, New York. He died in New York City on June 17, 1956 and is buried at Saint Philip's Church Cemetery in Garrison, Putnam Co., NY. [see obituary]
C.A. [Charles Anderson] Cass	Nov. 1, 1939	A member from Narrows Island Club. Charles Anderson Cass, son of Joseph Kerr Cass & Sarah Margaret Anderson, was born in Pittsville, PA on Nov.20, 1880 and died Apr. 23, 1957. He married 1st Mary Beatrice Barry; 2nd Agnes G. Droop. He graduated from Princeton in 1902. Member of the University Club. Member S.A.R.. He was corporate secretary of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company until his retirement in 1947, and he continued to serve as director until 1954.
George DeForest Lord	Nov. 1, 1939	George DeForest Lord was born in Lawrence, NY on Dec. 18, 1891 and died Feb. 2, 1950 in Savannah, GA. [see obituary and funeral] He is buried in Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery in NY. He married Hazen Symington (1883-1965) in 1914. Hazen was the sister of James Mansfield Symington (1894-1961) who was also a member of this club.
William T. [Thayer] Brown [Jr.]	Nov. 1, 1939	William Thayer Brown was born in Chicago, IL on Nov. 1, 1895 and died in Springfield, MA on Aug. 23, 1953 [see obituary]. He married Frances Tener on Nov. 6, 1920 [see marriage article]. He was president of Spalding's Sporting Goods / A. G. Spalding & Brothers; director of Third National Bank and Trust Co.; former VP of executive committee of Associated Industries of Western Massachusetts; past president of Employees Association of Western Massachusetts; authority on breeding and raising Angus cattle and a benefactor of the 4-H Club movement. He was a member of:Newcomen Society of England; Army Ordnance Association; Navy Industrial Association; the Hartford Club; the Yale Club of New York City and the Dauntless Club of Essex. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Suffield, CT.
Lucius H. [Hart] Beers	Nov. 1, 1939	A Member from Narrows Island Club. The Henry Allen Moe papers show that Lucius was a law partner of Henry DeForest Baldwin, speed boat driver, fisherman, duck hunter (who at 80 still got his full bag of ducks with his old ten-gauge gun); Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barnard College; Trustee of the American Farm School, Salonika, Greece; member Anti-Submarine Board during WWI. His coming over from Narrows Island to Currituck Shooting was part of the club merger, apparently completed by 1940. The Narrows Island Club Membership Book is for 1923, so we don't know what happened there between 1923 and 1940. Lucius received Deed 15, Room 8, Currituck Shooting Club on Nov. 1, 1939. [see Find-A-Grave for photo and more information] [see obituary1 and] obituary 2]
John R. [Robb] Montgomery	Nov. 1, 1939	John Robb Montgomery, son of Richard Malcolm Montgomery and Alice Stanley Coe, was born in Brooklyn, NY Sept. 29, 1882 and died Jan. 3, 1953 [see obituary]. He married Arline McCanless in NY on May 23, 1914. From 1930 -1950 they were living in Milburn, Essex Twp., NJ. John was listed as a banker dealing in investments & securities. They are buried on Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
Thomas C. [Collier] Eastman	Apr. 1, 1940	Thomas Collier Eastman was born Sept. 21, 1883 and died May 24, 1965 [see obituary]. He graduated from Yale in 1909, and was a partner with fellow club member, Herbert L. Dillon, in an investment banking firm, once known as Eastman Dillon Union Security. His father was Joseph Eastman and his mother was Harriet Norman Collier. His grandmother, Lucy Putnam Eastman (1824 - 1908), left her son, Joseph Eastman, and his four children: Lucy P. Eastman, Annie K. Eastman, Norman F. Eastman, and Thomas C. Eastman, $2,377,223 in her will. His grandfather, Timothy C. Eastman (1821 - 1893), was a meat dealer and importer of meat, and was president and organizer of Eastman's Company, the largest exporter of cattle in the USA. Lucy P. Eastman's pictures and statuary were valued at $58,925. Thomas C. Eastman served as a 1st Lieutenant during World War I. He never married, and he worked at Keech, Loew & Company after college. He bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and he formed Eastman Dillon & Co. on Jan. 1, 1912. He usually took a month off every year to go shooting in Canada and Newfoundland. He played polo in summer at Rumson, Piping Rock, and Van Cortland Park. He was a member of the Yale Club, Rumson Club, and Squadron A. He is buried in Saint James of My Lady's Manor Cemetery, Monkton, Baltimore Co., Md, where he had owned a farm for 37 years. He took a liking to Charlie Dunton, who worked at the Currituck Shooting Club, and he got Charlie Dunton a job at the Eastman Kodak plant in Rochester, NY. Charlie couldn't bear being away from the club, so he came home after two weeks. It is not known what his relationship to George Eastman at Eastman Kodak was, but George Eastman was an owner of the Horn Point Club at nearby Back Bay, Va.