WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY (S&B 1863)
*  Married Flora Payne, daughter of Standard Oil Treasurer Oliver Payne.  Fathered
    two children, Payne Whitney & Harry Payne Whitney. (Bk-44, 20)
*  Skull & Bones member (Ini. 1863)
*  1872 - Inspector of Scools, N.Y. (Bk-44, 20)
*  1885-89 - Sec. of Navy. (Bk-44, 45)
*  Promoter and Financier. (Bk-44, 18)
*  Built up a massive fortune during the Cleveland admistration, and directed the often
    unsrupulous activities of a cluster of capalists known as "the whitney group". A list
    of Whitney estates at the turn of the century include : A city residence in New York,
    a Venetian palace and 5000 acres in Wheatley Hills, near Janaica, L.I.; a Sheepshead
    Bay house, with a private track covering  300 acres, a mansion at Berkshire Hills,
    Mass, with 700 acres of land; Stony Ford Farm, New York, used as an auxillary to his
    Kentucky Stock Farm; an Adirondack game preserve of 16, 000 acres; a lodge at Blue
    Mountain lake wiht a fine golf course, a Blue Grass Farm of 3000 acres in Kentucky; an
    estate at Aiken, S.C., comprising a mansion, race course, and 2000 acres of hunting
    land. (Bk-44, 20)
*  Co-Founder, Director of Guaranty Trust. (Bk-44, 133)