Flora Payne Whitney

Philanthropist

Female

Born Jul 27, 1897

Died Jul 18, 1986

Flora Payne Whitney, also known as Flora Whitney Miller, was a wealthy socialite, art collector, and patron of the arts. [edit] Biography She was the eldest daughter of Harry Payne Whitney, a sportsman and heir to the Whitney family fortune, and Gertrude… Read More

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Flora Payne Whitney

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Weddings/Celebrations; Whitney Miller, Robert Douglass Jr.
NYTimes - May 21, 2006

Whitney Munn Miller, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leverett Saltonstall Miller of Palm Beach, Fla., was married there yesterday to Robert Royal Douglass Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass of Greenwich, Conn. The Rev. Ralph R. Warren Jr. performed the ceremony at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. Mrs. Douglass, 27, was until March a
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Art; A Museum Of One's Own
NYTimes - Dec 05, 2004

WHEN the facade was falling off the Whitney Museum of American Art, Leonard A. Lauder wrote a check for $2.5 million to help fix it. When Mr. Lauder decided two years ago that the museum's collection was lacking in Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, he squeezed his fellow trustees to help buy $200 million worth of paintings and sculpture, most of
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A Whitney Drops Museum Support Over New Show
NYTimes - Mar 12, 2000

Angry over a planned exhibit at the Whitney Museum linking Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and other political figures to the Nazis, Marylou Whitney, the widow of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, said yesterday that she had withdrawn her financial support of the museum and quit its national fund-raising council. Mrs. Whitney said that a work by Hans Haacke,
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In The Region /Long Island; The High End: Indoor Pools, And Racquetball Courts
NYTimes - Oct 03, 1999

ALTHOUGH Long Island has lost many of the manor houses built around the turn of the century, they are rapidly being replaced by a new generation of much smaller houses that offer similar luxuries and comfort. ''What many of my clients share in common with early 20th century entrepreneuers is that they are visionaries in business and visionaries in
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CHILDHOOD

1897 Birth Born in 1897.

TEENAGE

1916 19 Years Old Whitney made her debut on August 4, 1916, at "The Reefs," the Payne-Whitney "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island. … Read More

TWENTIES

1918 21 Years Old The glamorous young couple never married, since the young roosevelt was killed in action in 1918. … Read More

1920 23 Years Old In 1920, Whitney married Roderick Tower at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York. … Read More

1925 28 Years Old The marriage was a failure, however, due to Tower's drinking and infidelity, and they were divorced in 1925. … Read More

THIRTIES

1927 30 Years Old In 1927, Whitney married George Macculloch Miller III in in Cairo, Egypt. … Read More

FORTIES

1941 44 Years Old Whitney worked closely with her mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the founding and endowing of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. After her mother's death, Whitney served as President of the Museum from 1941 until 1966, and as Chairman from 1966 through 1974. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1986 89 Years Old She died in 1986.

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