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MARQUAND, HENRY GURDON (1819-1902)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 750 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARQUAND, HENRY GURDON (1819-1902) , American philanthropist and collector, was born in New
York
  City on the 11th of April 1819. In 1839, upon the retirement from the
jewelry
  business of his brother Frederick (1799-1882), who was a liberal benefactor of Yale College and of the Union Theological
Seminary
 , he became his brother's agent. He was one of the purchasers in 1868 of the Iron Mountain railroad, afterwards its president, and a director of the Missouri-Pacific system. He was the first honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and president (18891902) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which he made valuable presents and loans from his collection of paintings. He died in New
York
  City, on the 26th of February 1902. His varied and valuable art collection and rare books were sold in 1903. He was a benefactor of Princeton University and other institutions. His son,
ALLAN
  MARQUAND (b. 1853), graduated at Princeton in 1874, and in 1883 became professor of archaeology and art.


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