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Harry Payne Bingham
Henry Payne Bingham (December 9, 1887 – March 25, 1955) was an American financier, sportsman, art patron and philanthropist. He funded a series of expeditions to study marine life.
He was born in 1887 to Charles William Bingham (1846–1929), a wealthy Cleveland industrialist, and Mary (née Payne) Bingham (1854–1898). His siblings included Oliver Perry Bingham; William H. Bingham; Elizabeth Beardsley Bingham, who married Dudley Stuart Blossom; and Frances Payne Bingham, a U.S. Representative from 1940 to 1969 who married fellow Representative Chester Bolton.
His paternal grandparents were William Bingham and Elizabeth (née Beardsley) Bingham. His maternal grandparents were Henry B. Payne, a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and Mary (née Perry) Payne. His mother's siblings included Nathan P. Payne, the mayor of Cleveland; Flora Payne, who married Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney; Howard Payne, the namesake of Howard Payne University; and Oliver H. Payne, a Standard Oil executive who died in 1917 without children, leaving several million dollars and his Esopus estate in the Hudson River Valley known as "Omega" to Bingham, his nephew.
Bingham prepared at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1910 where he was a classmate and roommate of Robert A. Taft, the son of President William Howard Taft who was later a U.S. Senator. The Taft School was run by Horace Dutton Taft, brother of the President and uncle of his roommate.
Bingham, a financier, owned a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, which he sold in the fall of 1924.
He served as a director of the First National Bank of New York and of the Northern Finance Corporation of New York. In 1937, he joined the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with Vanderbilt Webb and Arnold Whitridge. Later, he served as vice-president and donated to the Museum, including Peter Paul Rubens's Venus and Adonis, which he gave in 1928. In 1933, he gave "Omega", the 645 acre estate he inherited from his uncle to the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. He was also a trustee of American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society.
During World War I, Bingham was a captain in the Field Artillery and served at the front for one year. He was also an amateur golfer, winning the golf championship of Long Island in 1924.
In the 1920s he led a series of expeditions on his private yacht, the "Pawnee", that included biologist Albert Eide Parr and natural history illustrator Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson brought specimens and illustrations of marine life, donating them to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
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Harry Payne Bingham
Henry Payne Bingham (December 9, 1887 – March 25, 1955) was an American financier, sportsman, art patron and philanthropist. He funded a series of expeditions to study marine life.
He was born in 1887 to Charles William Bingham (1846–1929), a wealthy Cleveland industrialist, and Mary (née Payne) Bingham (1854–1898). His siblings included Oliver Perry Bingham; William H. Bingham; Elizabeth Beardsley Bingham, who married Dudley Stuart Blossom; and Frances Payne Bingham, a U.S. Representative from 1940 to 1969 who married fellow Representative Chester Bolton.
His paternal grandparents were William Bingham and Elizabeth (née Beardsley) Bingham. His maternal grandparents were Henry B. Payne, a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and Mary (née Perry) Payne. His mother's siblings included Nathan P. Payne, the mayor of Cleveland; Flora Payne, who married Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney; Howard Payne, the namesake of Howard Payne University; and Oliver H. Payne, a Standard Oil executive who died in 1917 without children, leaving several million dollars and his Esopus estate in the Hudson River Valley known as "Omega" to Bingham, his nephew.
Bingham prepared at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1910 where he was a classmate and roommate of Robert A. Taft, the son of President William Howard Taft who was later a U.S. Senator. The Taft School was run by Horace Dutton Taft, brother of the President and uncle of his roommate.
Bingham, a financier, owned a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, which he sold in the fall of 1924.
He served as a director of the First National Bank of New York and of the Northern Finance Corporation of New York. In 1937, he joined the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art along with Vanderbilt Webb and Arnold Whitridge. Later, he served as vice-president and donated to the Museum, including Peter Paul Rubens's Venus and Adonis, which he gave in 1928. In 1933, he gave "Omega", the 645 acre estate he inherited from his uncle to the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York. He was also a trustee of American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society.
During World War I, Bingham was a captain in the Field Artillery and served at the front for one year. He was also an amateur golfer, winning the golf championship of Long Island in 1924.
In the 1920s he led a series of expeditions on his private yacht, the "Pawnee", that included biologist Albert Eide Parr and natural history illustrator Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson brought specimens and illustrations of marine life, donating them to the collections of the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.