Republic of Money: 1700s to present

[Hannah Bell]

I. SAMUEL EMORY, planter (1756) + JANE COOKE

"Samuel and Jane Cook Davis...established Rosemont Plantation."

Other family plantations: "Briars Plantation (Adams Co., MS), Hurricane Plantation (Warren Co., MS), Brierfield Plantation (Warren Co., MS)"

http://www.sankofagen.com/Rosemont+Plantation.

Their children included:

*Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, who married President Zach Taylor's daughter (first cousin of James Madison, 3rd cousin of Robert E Lee).

*Mary Ellen Davis (1806)



II. LUCINDA DAVIS (1822) + HAZLETON FARISH

Jefferson Davis's niece, Mary E Davis's child Lucinda, married planter & lawyer Hazlewood M Farish: "one of the leading and distinguished attorneys of Mississippi".

Hazlewood & Mary's son was William Stamps Farish(1). He attended the U. of Mississippi, then entered the Confederate army: Captain under Gen. Stephen D Lee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_D._Lee

Post-Civil War, he first "commenced planting," then entered U of Virginia & became a successful lawyer. His child with Kate Power was William Stamps Farish(2).



III. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(2) (1881) + LIBBIE RANDON RICE

WS Farish 1881 also went to U-Miss & got a law degree, but went to Texas after 3 months of practice to inspect the area for "an uncle in England."

He arrived in Beaumont TX just in time for the Spindletop oil strike, & through this connection, eventually became a president of Standard Oil & key figure in the Texas oil nexus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_II

Farish married Libbie Randon Rice, grandniece of William Marsh Rice & Baker-Botts founder WB Botts & sister of Ella Botts Rice Hughes.



WILLIAM MARSH RICE (1816)

Millionaire, murder victim & founder of Rice University:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_Rice

His brother's son married Martha Botts, daughter of Baker-Botts founder. Their children married into the Howard Hughes, Farish, & Neuhaus families.



JAMES ADDISON BAKER (1821)

Great-grandfather to James Baker III's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Baker_III

He figured prominently in the Rice murder case as partner in Rice's legal firm, Gray & Botts, later Baker-Botts, which Baker III currently heads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Addison_Baker_the_elder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Botts

Adelaide Lovett, daughter of the first President of Rice University, EO Lovett (U of Virginia & U of Leipzig), married a son of Captain James A Baker, Walter Brown "W" Baker, banker.

He was named for the founder of Baker-Botts.

Adelaide's brother Henry was a Baker-Botts partner along with the present James A Baker III's father.

All of them Rice U. trustees.

Robert Scott Lovett, a relation, first worked for Baker-Botts, then left to work for EH Harriman's Union Pacific interests, eventually UP President.

His son Robert was a close friend of Prescott Bush, & Truman Admin official.



WALTER BROWNE BOTTS (1835)

Confederate Colonel, the "Botts" in Gray-Botts & Baker-Botts, grand-master Mason of Texas.

Peter Gray, the "Gray" in Gray-Botts, was, his relative.

His daughter Martha Botts married William Marsh Rice's son David. Their daughter Libbie married Wm. S. Farish(2), & their daughter Ella Botts Rice was Howard Hughes' first wife.



HOWARD HUGHES Sr.

Howard Hughes' father was also one of the folks around Spindletop, partner WB Sharp, founded Hughes Tool (legal affairs handled by Baker-Botts).

Son Howard attended Rice U (fifedom of Botts, Bakers, Farishes & Rices), married Ella Botts Rice 1925, divorced 1929.

His fortune was eventually inherited by the Lummis family scion Frederick Rice Lummis (Fred's mother, Charlotte, was sister of David Rice & another grandchild of millionaire William Marsh Rice, & Fred himself married Annette Gano, Howard Hughes' aunt.



IV. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(3/JR)(d. 1943) + MARY WOOD

WS Farish's son WS, also a Standard Oil exec, married the daughter of Gen. Robert E. Wood, "America First" founder & Montgomery Ward & Sears executive. WS Jr. died in a plane accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish,_Jr.

Mary Wood Farish, after her husband's death, married his cousin Hugo Victor Neuhaus, son of Libbie Randon Rice's sister Kate Rice Neuhaus.



IV. MARTHA BOTTS FARISH + EDWARD H GERRY (1877)

William, Jr's sister Martha married Edward Harriman Gerry, son of EH Harriman's daughter Cornelia & Robert Livingston Gerry.

Gerry himself was a scion of the Livingston patroons: his mother Louise had inherited significant patroon acreage from her father, Robert J. Livingston (1811), desc. r. Livingston (1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patroon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Livingston

On the other side, his father "Commodore" Elbridge Thomas Gerry was a lawyer, founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/15705

Here's one of his brothers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Gerry


The Commodore's parents were Thomas Russell Gerry, US Navy & VP of US, & Hannah Green Goelet, daughter of the millionaire financier Peter P. Goelet, huge NYC landowner & Dir, Bank of NY. Goelet's wife Almy Buchanan was daughter of Thomas, "one of the richest NY merchants" of his day.

Finally, TRG's father was the merchant, shipper, Declaration of Independence signer & James Madison VP Elbridge Gerry (1744).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry



V. WILLIAM S FARISH(4) (1939) + SARAH SHARP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_III

WSF wife Sarah was the daughter of Bayard Sharp, close friend of GHW Bush:

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2002/August/11/Owner-and-breeder-Bayard-Sharp-dies-at-89.aspx

GW Bush donor:

http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/bayard-sharp.asp?cycle=02

Bayard, son of Hugh Rodney Sharp & Isabelle Mathieu DuPont, sister of Irenee & Pierre, granddaughter of Eleuthere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_family

Through the Sharp/Dupont connection, the Farish family owns, among other things, this Florida property:

http://www.the-gasparilla-inn.com/about.php



VI. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(5) (1963) + KELLY (?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_IV

Kelly Farish is the stepdaughter of Ogden Mills ("Dinny") Phipps. Here's his ancestry:


Ruth Livingston (patroon family) + DO Mills (founder of Bank of California, now BoA)
/
Grace Livingston Mills + Henry Carnegie Phipps (son of Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps)
/
Ogden Phipps + Stokes Bostwick (son of original Standard Oil partner Jabez Bostwick)
/
"Dinny"!

Dinny's son weds:

http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/2004/11/philthy-lucre.html


The Farishes have seven children.



VII. FURTHERMORE:

Another society wedding:

Von Furstenberg-Reynolds-Vincent de la Maisoneuve + William Farish Gerry (son of EH Gerry), partner Brown Brothers Harriman & Gerry Brothers.

"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=940DE0DD113EF93BA2575AC0A96E948260"



Yet another:

Diane von Furstenberg (nee Halfin) married this Fiat heir:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_von_Furstenberg

His mother was an Agnelli (Fiat heir).

His stepmother was Cecilie Amelia Blaffer - descendant of yet another one of the Spindletop/Standard Oil boys, Robert Lee Blaffer: Tulane graduate, son of a "well-established New Orleans businessman" who'd come to Texas to buy coal for the Southern Pacific RR.

He & WS Farish (1881) became partners in 1904.

http://www.birddogging.info/pdf/BLAFFER_Family_Tree.pdf

http://books.google.com/books?id=_K4aMjz2VL8C&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=robert+lee+blaffer&source=web&ots=DK5kLvwT3c&sig=xtDlACfTZQWmLNljty-QINKOF2c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result

[leftofthedial]

1. sounds like a good target round-up list for the revolution

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. WOW....great digging there....

And the Harrimans...linked to Averill Harriman in any way?

Excellent work...and jaw dropping.

pleased to rec.

[Hannah Bell]

4. Yes, I was assuming most people understood the EH Harriman -

Averell Harriman connection:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Harriman

EH Harriman was son of Rev. Orlando, who married Cornelia Neilson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Harriman

He married "Mary Williamson Averell, daughter of William J. Averell, a banker of Ogdensburg, New York, president of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad Company."

(& there's a connection there with the Ogden Mills family, too).

W. Averell was his son, brother to Cornelia (Gerry).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averell_Harriman

He & his brother ER were founding partners when Brown Brothers merged with WA Harriman & Co.

As was at least one of the Livingstons.


Continuing the line, WA Harriman married:

1. Kitty Lanier Lawrence
2. Marie Norton Whitney, who left her husband Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney for him
3. Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward, the former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph, and widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward.


Vice President, Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1915-1917
Director, Illinois Central Railroad Co., 1915-1946
Member, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 1915-1954
Chairman, Merchant Shipbuilding Corp.,1917-1925
Chairman, W. A. Harriman & Company, 1920-1931
Partner, Soviet Georgian Manganese Concessions, 1925-1928
Chairman, executive committee, Illinois Central Railroad, 1931-1942
Senior partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., 1931-1946
Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad, 1932-1946
Co-founded Today magazine with Vincent Astor, 1935-1937 (merged with Newsweek in 1937)
Administrator and Special Assistant, National Recovery Administration, 1934-1935
Founded, Sun Valley Ski Resort, Idaho, 1935-1936
Chairman, Business Advisory Council, 1937-1939
Chief, Materials Branch & Production Division, Office of Production Management, 1941
US Ambassador & Special Representative to the Prime Minister of Britain, 1941-1943
Chairman, Ambassador & Special Representative of the US President's Special Mission to the USSR, 1941-1943
US Ambassador to the USSR, 1943-1946
US Ambassador, Britain, 1946
US Secretary of Commerce, 1946-1948
United States Coordinator, European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), 1948-1950
Special Assistant to the US President, 1950-1952
US Representative and Chairman, North Atlantic Commission on Defense Plans, 1951-1952
Director, Mutual Security Agency, 1951-1953
Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1952
Governor, State of New York, 1955-1958
Candidate, Democratic nomination for US President, 1956
US Ambassador-at-large, 1961
United States Deputy Representative, International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian, 1961-1962
Assistant US Secretary of State, Far Eastern Affairs, 1961-1963
Special Representative to the US President, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963
Under US Secretary of State, Political Affairs, 1963-1965
US Ambassador-at-large, 1965-1969
Chairman, President's Commission of the Observance of Human Rights Year, 1968
Personal Representative of the US President, Peace Talks with North Vietnam, 1968-1969
Chairman, Foreign Policy Task Force, Democratic National Committee, 1976
Member, American Academy of Diplomacy Charter, Club of Rome, Council on Foreign Relations, Knights of Pythias, Skull and Bones Society, Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the Jupiter Island Club.

[cliffordu]

3. Eat the rich

feed the leftovers to the hogs

[Hannah Bell]

5. Republic of Money (con't)

1. SAMUEL JORDAN HARRISON (b. 1771, Queens Creek plantation, Va.) + SARAH HUDSON BURTON

Purchased part of Thomas Jefferson's "Popular Forest" estate, Bedford County, Va.



2. JESSE BURTON HARRISON (b. 1805, Lynchburg, Va.) + FRANCES BRAUD (New Orleans French descent)

Hampden-Sydney College, Va., Harvard Law, U. of Göttingen, Germany

Visited Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and met the Marquis de Lafayette, practiced law in Lynchburg, opposed Andrew Jackson and his financial policies; delivered oration on death of James Monroe; Delegate to national Republican Party convention.



3. BURTON NORVELL HARRISON (b. 1838, New Orleans, La.) + CONSTANCE CARY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Harrison

University of Mississippi, Yale

Private secretary to Jefferson Davis, New York Supreme Court bar 1867, Samuel J. Tilden's presidential campaign 1880.



4. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON (b. 1873, New York, N.Y.) + 1) Mary Crocker; 2)Mabel Judson Cox; 3)Elizabeth Wrentmore; 4)Margaret Wrentmore; 5)Maria Teresa

Member, 58th Congress, 63rd Congress, 20th District of New York; Governor-general of the Philippines. Retired to estate, Teanich, in Alness, Scotland

First wife MARY CROCKER died during their marriage. She was the niece of DARIUS OGDEN MILLS, whose descendant is step-mother of Kelly Farish, whose husband is the descendant of the sister of Jefferson Davis - who Francis Burton Harrison's father worked for.

Darius Ogden Mills left an estate of $60-100 million in 1910.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F14F6345811738DDDA10894DE405B808CF1D3.

"Francis Burton Harrison, second son of Burton N. Harrison, formerly Secretary to Jefferson Davis, and Mrs. Burton N. Harrison, (Miss Constance Cary,) the authoress, and Miss Mary Crocker, daughter of the late Charles F. Crocker of San Francisco, grandniece of D.O. Mills, and a niece of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander and George Crocker of this city, and also a cousin of Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, were married yesterday at noon in St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. The wedding was the most notable fashionable event of the Spring and early Summer season."


Francis Burton Harrison's brother Fairfax Harrison was President of the Southern Railroad, 1913-1937.

http://www.srha.net/public/History/history.htm

[blindpig]

6. Outstanding.

Aristocracy in all but name. They would not have us dwelling on such inconvenient truths. Thanks for this.

[Festivito]

7. Thanks for the bookmark. These are our only true rivals.

It's not socialism versus capitalism, it's the aristocracy instilling kakastacracy we need to fight.