What happened to Henry Flagler's daughter? Eldest daughter Jennie Louise died when she was a young woman (more on her later). It supplied kerosene by tank cars that brought the fuel to local markets, and tank wagons then delivered to retail customers, thus bypassing the existing network of wholesale jobbers. Both of Henry's parents had been married previously. Today, when you ask someone if they know about Henry Flagler, they are likely to answer with a shake of their head and a shrug. [23] The firm was attacked by journalists and politicians throughout its existence, in part for these monopolistic methods, giving momentum to the antitrust movement. What kind of a man was Henry Flagler and why do you think this? Zacharra worked in England for several years before moving to Dutchess County, New York, in 1710. Mary Flagler Cary (1901-1967) was the daughter of Harry Harkness Flagler, and granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founders of Standard Oil. It was due largely to the efforts of Henry M. Flagler and John D. Then, just a few months before the end of the Ponce de Leon Hotel's second season, Jennie Louise Flagler Benedict died from complications of childbirth. Dazzled by the prospect of tremendous wealth and supported by his father-in-law, Flagler followed the smell of money to Michigan. FLORIDA KEYS Henry Morrison Flagler never lived in the Florida Keys, but he left a more lasting and valuable mark on the island chain than many lifelong residents. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler and inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died under suspicious circumstances at aged fifty. However there were many reports harsh working conditions and forced indebtedness to the company, and malfeasance by labor agents who hired men for the railway. One of the grain brokers New York, NY: Three Rivers Press & Crown Publishers, 2002. Henry Flagler and his wife Ida Alice traveled to Jacksonville, Florida for their honeymoon. Flagler commissioned the architects and builders of his other St. Augustine buildings to create the Venetian Renaissance Revival style . "The Flagler Pavilion was built across the street at Edgewood for the Flaglers' daughter Elizabeth's 1927 wedding to J. Andrews Harris lll," said Millbrook Historian David Greenwood. 91 is preserved inside a Beaux Arts pavilion built to look like a 19th-century railway palace. He himself is located to the side of them. They had two daughters, Jennie Louise and Carrie. Because he had a hard personal life and was a cutthroat business man. Henry Flalger entombed on the right Jennie Louise is currently entombed inside of the church with her infant daughter, Majorie, in her arms. [4], After the failure of his salt business in Saginaw, Flagler returned to Bellevue in 1866 and reentered the grain business as a commission merchant with the Harkness Grain Company. [41] The history of American oil refining begins with Flagler and Rockefeller, as they built the biggest, most prosperous and monopolizing oil empire of their time: Standard Oil. Craze became frenzy when Mary Lily Kenan and Henry Flagler married on August 24th, 1901. In 1878, his wife Mary fell ill, and died on May 18, 1881, at age 47, leaving Henry Flagler with a young son to raise alone. Such incentive led to the development of Miami, which was an unincorporated area at the time. [7] The partnership eventually grew into the Standard Oil Corporation. Henry Morrison Flagler was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil. Rogers, in particular, became one of Flagler and Rockefeller's key men in the formation of the Standard Oil Trust. Mary was born in Ohio in 1833. Flagler returned to Bellevue having lost his initial $50,000 investment and an additional $50,000 he had borrowed from his father-in-law and Daniel. Pennsylvania revoked the cartel's charter, and non-preferential rates were restored for the time being. Although not much is known about Ida Alice Flagler, many sources claim she became fond of opulent parties and leisurely pursuits that were available to the fabulously wealthy. He served as a vice president through 1908 and was part of ownership until 1911. University Press of Florida. Last (and perhaps most importantly), the truth is a hard thing to garner when it comes to what happened in the past even harder than it is today. [62], Flagler was entombed in the Flagler family mausoleum at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine alongside his first wife, Mary Harkness; daughter, Jenny Louise; and granddaughter, Marjorie. Henry Flagler's most monumental accomplishment was realized only a year before he died. After construction for the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar were underway in St. Augustine, Flagler's railroad properties started to expand southwards. Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, Boynton station Nathan Boynton's winter home - later the Hotel Boynton While Murray and other laborers constructed the two-story wooden structure, the Murray family lived in a canvas tent on the west side of the canal (known today at the inland or Intracoastal Waterway). [30] Additional fields were discovered in Burma and Java. In 1913, Henry Flagler passed away after breaking his hip falling down a staircase at Whitehall. A railroad and oil magnate who laid claim to Florida's east coast. In the kerosene industry, Standard Oil replaced the old distribution system with its own vertical system. "Especially since her father would have never stepped foot in the house. He was 83 years old. 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. By 1896, Flagler's railroad, the Florida East Coast Railway, reached Biscayne Bay. Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York, to Reverend and Mrs. Isaac Flagler. When asked by the president of Rollins College in Winter Park about his philanthropic efforts, Flagler reportedly replied, "I believe this state is the easiest place for many men to gain a living. Showing 1-6 of 6. 2. Louis Comfort Tiffany (who was about ten years into his monumental career) was hired to decorate the hotel and craft its windows. This was the case for many wealthy men during the Civil War, including Henry's future business partner, John D. Rockefeller. Flagler believed that he had learned a valuable lesson: invest in a business only after thorough investigation. IT HAD BEGUN 26 YEARS EARLIER, IN 1891, when Henry Morrison Flagler, the uncrowned "king" of Florida, who had made a vast fortune as a founding partner of Standard Oil of Ohio, met Mary Lily Kenan . "Flagler's Magnificent Hotel Ponce de Leon," FL: The Florida Historical Quarterly, Issue 54, Volume 1. To add to the sting, Henry 'Harry' Flagler was generally known as Harry Harkness, showing more deference for his mother than his father. Henry Morrison Flagler was born in Hopewell, New York on January 2nd, 1830 to Isaac Flagler and Elizabeth Caldwell Harkness Flagler. In June 1870, Flagler and Rockefeller formed Standard Oil of Ohio, which rapidly became the most profitable refiner in Ohio. Asylum Hospital for crazy people. First A Little On Henry Flagler. The public and the media in Florida exploded with the scandal of it all. However, Henry Flagler did not join his half-brother. Not much more is known about Henry Flagler's early life. During this time he worked to pay back his stepbrother. [citation needed], The Overseas Railroad, also known as the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, was heavily damaged and partially destroyed in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. When Mary contracted tuberculosis, at her doctor's recommendation they traveled . As a gift to Kenan, Flagler built Whitehall, a 55-room winter getaway in Palm Beach. Keys, L. (2015) Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Flagler's Gilded Age Palace. We Floridians have a very specific image of Henry Flagler in our minds: he is an old man with bright eyes cast in bronze. Only his son Harry survived of the three children by his first marriage in 1853 to Mary Harkness. Bowman, Bryan & Kathy Roberts Forde. Dan married Lamon's eldest daughter, Isabella, in 1849 (yes, they were first cousins). His body was sent to St. Augustine on May 23 where he was laid to rest along side of his his first wife Mary Harkness in the Memorial Presbyterian Church mausoleum built for his daughter Jennie Louise. She had two sons from her previous marriage. Together, the boys worked in the Harkness store for several years, where Henry eventually became a part of their sales staff. He was born in New York. Carrie died at the age of 3. Dr. Shelton had attended Flagler's daughter Jennie Benedict when she died from complications after childbirth in 1889. Flagler was entombed in the Flagler family mausoleum at Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine alongside his first wife, Mary Harkness; daughter, Jenny Louise; and granddaughter, Marjorie. He was also a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler controlled a vast fortune, which he earned by buying out small oil refineries and creating a monopoly with Standard Oil. [60][61] At 3 p.m. on the day of the funeral, May 23, 1913, every engine on the Florida East Coast Railway stopped wherever it was for ten minutes as a tribute to Flagler. Rockefeller retained his nominal title as president until 1911 and he kept his stock. After his first wife's death, Flagler developed a . The rumor mill suspected that this change in priorities was due to Henry's association with one Ida Alice Shourds a red-haired, green-eyed actress who was rumored to have been Mary Harkness Flagler's nursemaid during her final years. Jennie Louise was now a young married woman of twenty-four years; Carrie had died as a child; the son Harry was eight. You see, during the Gilded Age [and for far too long after it], women could be sent to a mental institution for just about anything. He would describe his childhood often as having been 'hungry and cold'. Henry Flagler was John D. Rockefeller's most significant business partner at Standard Oil. Standard Oil also had the highest capitalization, totaling $26,000,000 (equivalent to $784million in 2021). [21], Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States through horizontal integration. [65] After Flagler's death, she married an old friend, Robert Worth Bingham, who used an inheritance from her to buy the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper. He recruited Henry Flagler to join him, and the youth went to Ohio at age 14, where he started work in 1844 at a salary of US$5 per month plus room and board. "[56], A congressional investigation in 1909 concluded that "there had been little immigrant peonage in the South and none in the [railway camps] camps in the Keys. "[24] To the critics Flagler and Rockefeller replied, "In a business so large as ours some things are likely to be done which we cannot approve. Henry started spending a great deal more time in Florida, soon claiming the state as his permanent residence. However, Smith had fallen on some hard times and sold the hotel to Henry Flagler not long after it opened in 1888. If Smith could raise $50,000, Flagler would invest $150,000 and they would build a hotel together. As Henry's businesses prospered, they moved to New York City. "[57][58], According to historian Joe Knetsch, reformers and muckrakers exaggerated charges of peonage regarding construction of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1893 to 1909. Henry Flagler passed away May 20, 1913, and the construction of the "Over-Sea" road served as an example of his substantial impact on the state. So, Henry was the youngest of a large mixed family. In 1868, at age 37, Flagler joined with John Rockefeller and Samuel Andrews to form the Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler Oil Refinery. He even owned newspapers in Florida. In just eighteen months of harried work and lavish spending, the Ponce de Leon Hotel was opened for business in January of 1888. Chicago: VisitStAugustine.com. [citation needed], Although Standard Oil was a partnership, Flagler was credited as the brain behind the booming oil refining business. His project to connect the east coast of the United States from top to bottom was completed when the first Florida East Coast Railway car pulled into Key West in 1912. Henry and Mary had two Carrie died at age three. Whatever the case may be, Flagler focused on his family and his fortune during the years of 1861 to 1865. Augustine. 0:00. Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Architecture & Decoration. [citation needed], When looking back at Flagler's life, after Flagler's death, George W. Perkins, of J.P. Morgan & Co., reflected, "But that any man could have the genius to see of what this wilderness of waterless sand and underbrush was capable and then have the nerve to build a railroad here, is more marvelous than similar development anywhere else in the world. The judge instructed the jury to find them not guilty because the "prosecution had failed to prove 'an agreement of minds with evil intent to conspire'. This is a major source for this Historical Person Profile highly recommended! By 1880, according to the New York World, Standard Oil was "the most cruel, impudent, pitiless, and grasping monopoly that ever fastened upon a country. In 1853, young Henry followed suit when Lamon Harkness' middle daughter, Mary, became his first wife. Flagler dredged a channel, built streets, instituted the first water and power systems, and financed the city's first newspaper, The Metropolis. The railroad was financially unable to rebuild the destroyed sections, so the roadbed and remaining bridges were sold to the State of Florida, which built the Overseas Highway to Key West, using much of the remaining railway infrastructure. Ida Alice (ne Shourds) Flagler had been a caregiver for Mary. Henry Flagler had realized his dream and slipped quietly from this world at his ocean cottage 'Nautalis' on May 20, 1913, in Palm Beach, Florida. McGuire & McDonald were in charge of construction. "Historical Person Profile: Henry Flagler." Captain of the submarine USS Watertown (SSN-696) who reluctantly helps Harm and Mac with investigations involving a boat he commanded. Flagler gave them the honored center positions in the mausoleum. He was instrumental in stopping an Al-Qaeda attack on the USS Seahawk battlegroup (which the Watertown was a part of). The couple had two daughters, Jennie Louise, born in 1855, and Carrie, born in 1858. As fate would have it, Henry had been invited to work at a general store by a family . He became president of the Symphony Society of New York in 1914 . [43], When Flagler's first wife Mary (ne Harkness) fell sick, his physician recommended they travel to Jacksonville for the winter to escape the brutal conditions of the North. It soon was doing one tenth of all the petroleum business in the United States. whereas said Henry M. Flagler has recently lost by death a beloved daughter and in affectionate remembrance of her has been desirous of erecting some worthy monument to her Memory and believing that nothing should be more accordant with her known wishes and the tenor of her life on earth than that such Memorial should be a temple devoted to the worship of God and the teaching of that living faith in which she lived and died has erected in the City of St. Augustine a church edifice in loving . He was also a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. It was initially intended to house entertainment amenities for the Ponce de Leon guests but was soon reimagined as its own hotel. VisitStAugustine.com. Perhaps fortunately for Smith, he couldn't come up with the funds,[45] so Flagler began construction of the 540-room Ponce de Leon Hotel by himself, but spent several times his original estimate. His father was a Presbyterian minister, Isaac Flagler. Sixty miles (97km) south, the area today known as Miami was reportedly unharmed by the freeze. . [citation needed]. Though Flagler and Rockefeller had long maintained a policy of active silence with the press, they decided to make themselves more accessible and responded with conciliatory comments such as "capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction. Seven years later he became a senior salesman with a salary of $ 400 per year. At the time, Key West was Florida's most populous city, with a population of 20,000, and it was also the United States' deep water port closest to the canal that the U.S. government proposed to build in Panama. Struck by the tragic loss of his eldest daughter and first granddaughter, Henry Flagler sought solace in his business projects and the council of friends like Dr. Andrew Anderson. [44], Although Flagler remained on the board of directors of Standard Oil, he gave up his day-to-day involvement in the corporation to pursue his interests in Florida. Henry Morrison Flagler was born in 1830 into humble circumstances, his father a Presbyterian minister. The state provided incentive in the form of 3,840 acres (15.5km2) for every mile (1.6km) of track constructed.[49]. Was Colonel Henry Ostrom's first wife Elizabeth FLAGLER? Standard's most potent weapons against competitors were underselling, differential pricing, and secret transportation rebates. Visually exquisite, the Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church was built by Henry Flagler in 1889. A Second Wife and a Second Career. An immense engineering effort was required to cut through the wilderness and marsh from St. Augustine to Palm Beach. He invested with the guidance of Dr. Andrew Anderson, a native of St. Augustine. 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