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    William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 – May 25, 1927) was an American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. He inherited a fortune...
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    prominent Whitney family. Whitney was born in New York City on April 29, 1872, as the eldest son of Flora Payne and William C. Whitney (1841–1904), a very wealthy...
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    of the prominent Whitney family. Whitney was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Flora (née Payne) and William Collins Whitney, the United States...
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    The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was...
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    racing William Payne Whitney (1876–1927) Phyllis Ayame Whitney (1903–2008) Richard Whitney (1888–1974) Wheelock Whitney I (1894–1957) Wheelock Whitney, Jr...
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    William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 – February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and a prominent member of the Whitney family....
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    Flora Payne Whitney, also known as Flora Whitney Miller (July 27, 1897 – July 18, 1986), was an American artist and socialite, art collector, and patron...
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    and married into the Whitney family. She was the daughter of Henry B. Payne, a U.S. Senator, and the wife of William Collins Whitney, the U.S. Secretary...
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  • inheriting it. Joan Whitney was born in New York City, the daughter of William Payne Whitney and Helen Julia Hay. Her brother was John Hay Whitney. She inherited...
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  • family. She was born in New York City, New York, to William C. Whitney and Flora (née Payne) Whitney. Her father was corporation counsel for New York City...
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  • The Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic (PWC) was a hospital in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, which was founded by an endowment bestowed...
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  • Payne, who was a member of the Perry family. He was named for Oliver Hazard Perry. He was the uncle of William Payne Whitney and Harry Payne Whitney....
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  • anatomist, curator, and pathologist William G. Whitney (1840–1915), American Medal of Honor recipient William Payne Whitney (1876–1927), American businessman...
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    The Payne Whitney Gymnasium is the gymnasium of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. One of the largest athletic facilities ever built, its twelve...
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    sportsman Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930). A banker and investor, Whitney was the son of politician William Collins Whitney and Flora Payne, the daughter...
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    prominent Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1932) and his wife, Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942). He had a younger sister, Barbara Vanderbilt Whitney (1903–1982),...
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  • as well as of William Bradford, who came over on the Mayflower. His father was Payne Whitney, and his grandfathers were William C. Whitney and John Hay...
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  • Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1898), U.S. Senator from New York: 35  William Payne Whitney (1898), Whitney family businessman and philanthropist: 171  Frederick H...
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  • Harry Payne Whitney Glayde Whitney (1939–2002), American geneticist Gil Whitney (1940–1982), American television weather forecaster Grace Lee Whitney (1930–2015)...
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  • Tribune Richard Whitney (1907), President of the New York Stock Exchange; pleaded guilty to embezzlement in 1938 William Payne Whitney (1894), philanthropist...
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    1902, she married Payne Whitney, the son of William Collins Whitney (1841–1904) and Flora Payne (1842–1893). Together, Helen and Payne had a daughter and...
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  • Olive, Lady Baillie (category Whitney family)
    New York." Her maternal grandparents were Flora (née Payne) Whitney and William Collins Whitney, the United States Secretary of the Navy under President...
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  • Greentree Stable (category Whitney family)
    and breeding farm established in 1914 by Payne Whitney of the Whitney family of New York City. Payne Whitney operated a horse farm and stable at Saratoga...
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  • His legacy was carried on by his son, Harry Payne Whitney, and grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt “Sonny” Whitney, who died in 1992, with other family members...
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    site, measuring 20 by 100 feet (6.1 by 30.5 m), to his neighbor William Payne Whitney. The next month, Trumbauer filed plans for a three-story Renaissance-style...
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    Whitney (May 19, 1811 – October 24, 1878) was an American business executive and politician. He was the father of Henry Melville Whitney and William Collins...
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    in Yorkville in 1932. In 1927, William Payne Whitney's $27 million donation led to the building of the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, which became...
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  • built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II where he held auto races and awarded the Vanderbilt Cup. Also adjacent is the property of Harry Payne Whitney. "Wheatley...
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  • Hornblower. Whitney Tower Jr. Frances Tower-Thacher, widow of the late construction fraud lawyer, Thomas "Toby" Thacher II. Harry Payne Tower, who married...
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  • Whitney Straight and Academy Award-winning actress Beatrice Straight. Straight's maternal grandparents were Flora Payne and William Collins Whitney (1841–1904)...
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