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词条 William R. Travers
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. Further reading

{{Infobox person
| name = William Riggin Travers
| image =
| image_size = 250px
| caption =
| birth_date = July 1819
| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland
| death_date = March 19, 1887
| death_place = Hamilton, Bermuda
| occupation = Lawyer
| spouse =
| parents =
| children =
Three sons:
William R. Travers, Jr.
John Travers
Reverdy J. Travers

Six daughters:
Mary Mackall Travers Hecksher
Maria Louisa Travers Wadsworth
Harriet Travers Fearing
Ellen T. Travers Duer
Matilda E. Travers Gay
Susan B. Travers
}}William Riggin Travers (July, 1819 – March 19, 1887) was an American lawyer who made a fortune on Wall Street. A well-known cosmopolite and high liver, Travers was a member of 27 private clubs, according to Cleveland Amory in his book Who Killed Society?

Early life

Travers was born in 1819 and graduated in 1838 from Columbia College, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society.

Career

Along with John Hunter, in 1863 he founded Saratoga Race Course and served as its first president. Saratoga's Travers Stakes is named in his honor and is the oldest major Thoroughbred horse race in the United States. In 1884, William Travers became one of the backers of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track on Coney Island.

Travers was a partner in Annieswood Stable with John Hunter and George Osgood. The operation had considerable success both in racing runners and with breeding at their Annieswood Stud farm in Westchester County, New York. Their horse, the Hall of Famer Kentucky won the first running of the Travers Stakes in 1864. One of their most famous horses was Alarm, considered one of the best sprint race horses in American Thoroughbred horse racing history.

Travers was a long-time president of the New York Athletic Club. On January 13, 1887 the club purchased Hogg Island in Long Island Sound and Pelham, New York shoreline from the estate of John Hunter and renamed it Travers Island in his honor.[1]

Personal life

He married Maria Louisa Johnson (1827–1893), the fourth daughter of Reverdy Johnson (1796–1876). They had nine children, including:[2][3]

  • William R. Travers, Jr.[4]
  • Reverdy J. Travers[4][5]
  • Mary Mackall Travers, who married John G. Hecksher[6]
  • Maria Louisa Travers (1848–1931), who married U.S. Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846–1926)
  • Harriet Travers (d. 1931), who married George Richmond Fearing (1839–1920)[7]
  • Ellen T. Travers (1850–1902), who married William Alexander Duer (1848–1905), son of Willam Duer[8]
  • John Travers (1851–1888)[9]
  • Matilda E. Travers (d. 1943), who married Walter Gay (1856–1937), the painter, and moved to Paris, France in 1876 where she remained until her death in 1943.
  • Susan B. Travers

Travers died in Bermuda on March 19, 1887 from complications of diabetes. In his obituary, The New York Times wrote that he was "probably the most popular man in New York." [10]

References

1. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Travers Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1889/06/09/archives/travers-island.html |quote=The now Summer home of the New-York Athletic Club on Travers Island, near Pelham Manor, on the Sound, was opened yesterday for inspection by the members and their friends. The building, designed by Douglas Smythe, is a handsome structure of wood in the prevailing... |newspaper=New York Times |date=June 9, 1889 |accessdate=2010-12-31 }}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Hall|first1=Henry|title=America's Successful Men of Affairs: The city of New York|date=1895|publisher=New York tribune|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5wMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA665&lpg=PA665|accessdate=11 May 2017|language=en}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=A BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1885/02/10/archives/a-brilliant-entertainment.html|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=10 February 1885}}
4. ^1 {{cite book|title=American Millionaires: The Tribune's List of Persons Reputed to Worth a Million Or More. Lines of Business in which the Fortunes Were Made {{!}} Vol. IV|date=1892|publisher=Tribune Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJFOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=William+R.+Travers,+Jr.&source=bl&ots=cz1D671IIl&sig=xh0Tnw1bSI0rfYnUa0PHIT6kCq0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA2Ym1yubTAhVE5yYKHcw0DDYQ6AEITzAL#v=onepage&q=William%20R.%20Travers%2C%20Jr.&f=false|accessdate=11 May 2017|language=en}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Depew|first1=Chauncey M.|title=Titled Americans, 1890: A list of American ladies who have married foreigners of rank|date=1890|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781783660056|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkrDCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT383&lpg=PT383|accessdate=11 May 2017|language=en}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=WALDO TO MARRY MRS. J.G. HECKSCHER; Fire Commissioner's Marriage to Third Wife of Late J.G. Heckscher to Occur To-morrow.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/04/19/archives/waldo-t0-marry-mrs-jg-heckscher-fire-commissioners-marriage-to.html|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=19 April 1910}}
7. ^{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=MRS. G.R. FEARING DIES IN 82D YEAR; Former New Yorker Was Well Known for Her Activities in Philanthropies. WAS HONORED BY FRANCE Funeral Services Will Take Place in Newport, Where She at One Time Resided.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/03/04/archives/mrs-gr-fearing-dies-in-82d-year-former-new-yorker-was-well-known.html|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=4 March 1931}}
8. ^{{cite news|title=MRS. K. DUER BLAKE DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Former Wife of Dr. Joseph. A. Blake and Clarence H. Mackay Was Briefly Ill. OF OLD NEW YORK FAMILY Former Leader in Society and War Worker in France is Survived by Seven Children.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/04/20/archives/mrs-k-duer-blake-dies-of-pneumonia-former-wife-of-dr-joseph-a-blake.html|accessdate=11 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=20 April 1930}}
9. ^{{cite news|title=JOHN TRAVERS'S ESTATE.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1888/05/23/archives/john-traverss-estate.html|accessdate=10 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=23 May 1888}}
10. ^{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |quote=William R. Travers, well known for the last 30 years in Wall-Street, in the leading clubs, and in society in this city, died in Bermuda March 19. He was unconscious during the last hours, when his wife, his son, R.J. Travers, his daughter Susie, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Duer, stood around his bed. |title=William R. Travers Dead; Final Rest Of A Man Universally Popular. Dying At Bermuda After A Long And Languishing Illness. Sketch Of His Career. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E10FD3D5413738DDDA10A94DB405B8784F0D3 |work= |publisher=New York Times |date=March 28, 1887 |accessdate=2007-06-01 }}

Further reading

  • New York Times obituary
  • Alarm at Thoroughbred Heritage.com
  • Matilda Travers Gay information published by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
  • William R. Travers information at the History of the Town of Pelham, New York
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