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Harry Harkness Flagler (December 2, 1870 - June 30, 1952) was president of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York and the National Orchestral Association. Biography. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 2, 1870, to Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of Standard Oil and Mary Harkness Flagler.
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway. He is also known as a co-founder and major investor of the cities of ...
Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867–1917) was an American philanthropist and heiress who became notorious when she married one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler , inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died under suspicious circumstances at age fifty.
Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler was a business concern formed in 1867 in Cleveland, Ohio which was a predecessor of the Standard Oil Company. The principals and namesakes were John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Samuel Andrews, and Henry M. Flagler. Flagler’s step-brother Stephen V. Harkness made substantial investments, but was a silent ...
John D. Rockefeller c. 1872, shortly after founding Standard Oil. Standard Oil's prehistory began in 1863, as an Ohio partnership formed by industrialist John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V. Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William Rockefeller's wife.
When Flagler died in 1913, he was interred in a marble mausoleum connected to the church alongside his daughter Jennie, his infant granddaughter Margery, and first wife Mary Harkness Flagler. [7] In 2012, CNN included Memorial Presbyterian in a list of one of the top eight religious wonders to visit in the United States. [8]
A mailroom supervisor at a California prison has died after coming into contact with mail "saturated in an unknown substance", the US Federal Bureau of Prisons said. Marc Fischer - a coast guard ...
Named for literary critic and poet George Edward Woodberry, [1] the Woodberry Poetry Room was founded in 1931 with the help of a $50,000 donation from Harvard alumnus Harry Harkness Flagler. [2] The collection focuses on 20th and 21st century English language poets and poetry. Among its notable holdings are recordings of authors and poets ...