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Flora Payne Whitney
Born(1897-07-27)July 27, 1897
New York City, U.S.
DiedJuly 18, 1986(1986-07-18) (aged 88)
Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
EducationBrearley School
Foxcroft School
OccupationPatron of the arts
Spouses
Roderick Tower
(m. 1920; div. 1925)
George Macculloch Miller III
(m. 1927; died 1972)
Children4, including Whitney Tower and Flora Miller Biddle
Parent(s)Harry Payne Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Flora Payne Whitney, also known as Flora Whitney Miller (July 27, 1897 – July 18, 1986), was an American artist and socialite,[1] art collector, and patron of the arts.

  1. ^ "Flora Whitney died in 1986, inevitably wikipeded as a 'wealthy socialite.'" Morris, Edmund (2010). Colonel Roosevelt. New York: Random House. p. 567. ISBN 978-0-375-50487-7.

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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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Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic was established. William Payne Whitney was born on March 20, 1876, to William Collins Whitney (1841–1904) and Flora Payne...

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Dorothy Payne Whitney

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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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Flora Miller Biddle

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Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum. Biddle was born to Flora Payne Whitney, a daughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Harry Payne Whitney...

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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Gertrude and Harry Whitney had three children: Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986) Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992) Barbara Whitney (1903–1983; m. 1960...

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Eli Whitney Debevoise II (born 1953) Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986) Whitney Tower (1923–1999) Flora Miller Biddle (born 1928) Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930)...

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Vanderbilt family

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Vanderbilt (1875–1942) Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986) Pamela Tower (1921–2013) John LeBoutillier (born 1953) Whitney Tower (1923–1999) Flora Miller Biddle (born...

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Pauline Payne Whitney

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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 from...

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William Collins Whitney

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he married Flora Payne, daughter of Senator Henry B. Payne of Ohio and sister of Whitney's Yale classmate, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, later treasurer...

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Whitney Tower

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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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Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney

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Whitney (1903–1982), and an elder sister, Flora Payne Whitney (1897–1986). As a member of both the Whitney and Vanderbilt families, he inherited a substantial...

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List of Brearley School alumnae

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philanthropist Katharine Weymouth, former publisher of The Washington Post Flora Payne Whitney, patron of the arts "Retiring and Incoming Members of the Board of...

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Whitney Museum

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Miller, after her, and until 1961, its board was largely family-run. Flora Payne Whitney served as a museum trustee, then as vice president. From 1942 to...

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Quentin Roosevelt

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Harvard, Class of 1919. Quentin was engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, the elder daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt. Gertrude was a great-granddaughter...

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Payne Whitney House

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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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Foxcroft School

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Wilmot, philanthropist and socialite Flora Payne Whitney, artist, art collector, socialite, member of the Whitney family and Vanderbilt family Stephanie...

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Wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom

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Endicott – Cabinet member's wife William Collins Whitney – Secretary of the Navy Flora Payne Whitney – Cabinet member's wife William Freeman Vilas – Postmaster...

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Helen Hay Whitney

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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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Edith Starr Miller

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first wife, the former Pauline Payne Whitney (a daughter of fellow Americans William C. Whitney and Flora Payne Whitney), who died in 1916. After Pauline's...

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Edith Roosevelt

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Quentin at Sagamore Hill, Edith, Theodore, and Quentin's fiancée Flora Payne Whitney spent a month at Ethel's home in Dark Harbor, Maine. Theodore's health...

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Michael Straight

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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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Kay Sage

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School in Virginia, where she became a lifelong friend of the heiress Flora Payne Whitney. As a child she drew and wrote as hobbies, but her first formal training...

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John LeBoutillier

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Tower), was the daughter of Roderick Tower and Flora Payne Whitney, a member of the Vanderbilt family and Whitney family. Mrs. LeBoutillier was a distant cousin...

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Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler

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1890. Retrieved 11 April 2017. "MISS MURRAY WEDS LEWIS S. CHANLER; Flora Payne Whitney a Bridesmaid, and Her Fiance, Roderick Tower, an Usher". The New...

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George Macculloch Miller

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Manhattan. His grandson, George Macculloch Miller III (d. 1972) married Flora Payne Whitney in Cairo, Egypt in 1927. Dolkart, Andrew S. (1998). Morningside Heights:...

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Dorothy Straight

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Dorothy Payne Whitney (1887–1968), the daughter of William Collins Whitney, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the Cleveland administration, and Flora Payne...

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