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The
Payne - Whitney Family of Cleveland and New York
Page entitled : Oliver H. Payne's death and will
Content of this page is about :
Oliver Hazard Payne's personal properties, his Manhattan townhouse,
Greenwood plantation and summer estate at esopus, his yacht Aphrodite, his
death philanthropies and will.
Extract :
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During World War I, Payne
gave this yacht to the U.S. Navy, which used it to patrol off the French
North Atlantic coast. After the war it was returned to Payne Whitney, to
whom his uncle had bequeathed it.
Although
not in a league with John D. Rockefeller or Edward S. Harkness, Oliver H.
Payne was a generous benefactor to various institutions, throughout his life
and in his will. He funded the Cornell Medical School, starting with an
initial bequest of $500’000 in 1889,
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