Marion duPont Scott (May 3, 1894 – September 4, 1983) was a philanthropist, and a thoroughbred horsebreeder who operated a racing stable for both flat and steeplechase racing. She was the last private owner of Montpelier, the mansion and land estate of fo
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Lammot du Pont II (October 12, 1880 – June 24, 1952) was an American businessman who was the head of the du Pont family's E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company for 22 years.
Continue reading >>Wait Winthrop, born 27 February 1641/2 in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the son of John Winthrop the Younger and the grandson of John Winthrop, a leading founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Named Waitstill at birth
Continue reading >>He was born in Groton, England, the son of John Winthrop, founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was educated at the Bury St. Edmunds grammar school and at Trinity College, Dublin and studied law for a short time after 1624 at the Inner Tem
Continue reading >>John Winthrop (12 January 1587/8 – 26 March 1649) was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony.
Continue reading >>Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809—November 16, 1894) was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He is a descendant of John Winthrop.
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