Eugene Zimmerman (December 17, 1845 – December 20, 1914) was an American industrialist and railroad owner. He amassed great wealth as a stockholder or shareholder in John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil . He used the income from his Standard Oil holdings to invest in railroads.
26-1019: Goelet is a surname, and may refer to: Mary Goelet (1878-1937), Duchess of Roxburghe Ogden Goelet (1851–1897), real estate developer Peter Goelet (1727–1811), American merchant and real estate developer Peter P. Goelet (1764–1828), his son, American merchant and real estate developer Robert Goelet Sr. (1809–1879), his son, real estate developer Robert Goelet (1841–1899), his son, real estate developer Robert Walton Goelet (1880–1941), his son, real estate developer Robert Wilson Goelet (1880–1966), American social leader, banker, and real estate developer, son of Ogden Goelet See also [ edit ] Goelet family George Goelet Kip (1845–1926), American lawyer Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957), American lawyer and politician Goelet Building (disambiguation) in New York City [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
52-494: A co-founder of the Chemical Bank of New York . In 1897, she was rumored to be engaged to William Montagu (1877–1947), the 20-year-old 9th Duke of Manchester . He later married a different American, Helena Zimmerman , daughter of industrialist Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, Ohio , in 1900. In the late December 1898, she was rumored once more to be engaged to Viscount Crichton (1872–1914), eldest son and heir of
78-616: A daughter of Abraham Evans of West Liberty , and wife ( Champaign County , Ohio , 17 March 1845) Elizabeth Igou, daughter of Peter Igou, farmer , and wife Susan McKenzie . Before her death in December 1882 from peritonitis , they were the parents of one child together: Helena Zimmerman (1878–1971), who married William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester in 1900. They divorced in 1931 and, in 1937, she married Arthur Keith-Falconer, 10th Earl of Kintore and remained married until his death in 1966. Zimmerman lived at 2448 Auburn Avenue,
104-490: A priceless series of 17th century Gobelins Manufactory tapestries. At the time of her marriage to the Duke of Roxburghe, she was the wealthiest American heiress, with a dowry of twenty million dollars, exceeded only by Consuelo Vanderbilt in the wealth brought to the transatlantic marriages of the pre-1914 era (see Gilded Age ). In 1913, she first became a guest of Queen Mary and King George at Windsor Castle . She and
130-543: A substantial stockholder and gained seat on the company's board. In 1875, Zimmerman purchased more than 13,000 acres of timberland in what is now Yosemite in Casey County, Kentucky . He ran a lumber mill there and built a wooden train track from Kings Mountain to Staffordsville in 1884, later organizing the Green River Railway Co. He used his income to invest in railroads and was president of
156-543: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Mary Goelet Mary " May " Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe ( née Goelet ; October 6, 1878 – April 26, 1937) was an American-born heiress and socialite who married into Scottish nobility. Mary Goelet was born in 1878. Her parents were Mary Wilson Goelet (1855–1929) and Ogden Goelet (1851–1897), a prominent heir and landlord in New York City and great-grandson of Peter Goelet , heir to one of
182-500: The 3rd Marquess of Londonderry . His first cousin was Winston Churchill . His younger brother, Lord Robert Edward Innes-Ker married the actress Jose Collins in 1920. After ten years of childlessness, Mary gave birth to a son and heir: The Duchess of Roxburghe died on April 26, 1937, in London. The 8th Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh settled at Floors Castle , where Mary decorated the fortress with her own collection of art including
208-573: The 4th Earl Erne . On November 10, 1903, she married Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (1876–1932). He was the son of James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 7th Duke of Roxburghe and Lady Anne Emily Spencer-Churchill , the fourth daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough , who served in Conservative governments as Lord President of the Council and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , and his wife, Lady Frances Vane , daughter of
234-697: The Cincinnati and Green River Railroad , and the Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad , which later became a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway after he sold it to Collis P. Huntington which led to a long partnership with Huntington, including looking after his interests in the Midwest . In 1882, he became president of the Chesapeake and Nashville Railway (and constructed the Chesapeake and Ohio Bridge at Cincinnati for Huntington), and in 1888 he
260-700: The Midwest . He continued to be a director of Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway , the Birmingham and Atlantic Railway and the North Alabama Coal and Iron Company. Henry Ford later bought DT&I in 1920. At the time of his death, he was preparing to testify before Commissioner Henry Clay Hall of the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding the sale of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and
286-409: The surname Goelet . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goelet&oldid=1037104118 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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#1732775780429312-915: The Duke were also the guests of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra . In 1929, she inherited $ 3,000,000 from her mother's estate after the death of her mother, as well as the Goelet art collection. Eugene Zimmerman (industrialist) Zimmerman was born in Vicksburg , Warren County , Mississippi , on December 17, 1845. He was son of Solomon Zimmerman ( Kingston , Ross County , Ohio , 1807 – Clifton , Cincinnati , Hamilton County , Ohio , 13 May 1859) and wife ( Vicksburg , Warren County , Mississippi , 27 February 1845) Hannah J. Biggs ( Pennsylvania , 1824 – Clifton , Cincinnati , Hamilton County , Ohio , 14 July 1861) and paternal grandson of Martin Zimmerman and wife Barbara Pontius. His younger brother
338-664: The Père Marquette to J.P. Morgan & Co. , for which Zimmerman made a profit of more than $ 1,000,000. Testimony given before the Commission told how J. Pierpont Morgan suffered a $ 12,00,000 loss when he acquired the Zimmerman's Great Central system, then failed to sell it to the Erie Railroad , and "was forced to throw the system into the hands of a receiver." Frederick W. Stevens testified that Zimmerman and his associates loaded $ 24,000,000 worth of obligations on
364-399: The largest fortunes of the time. Her only sibling was a younger brother, Robert , who built Glenmere mansion . Through her mother, she was a niece of Richard Thornton Wilson, Jr. and Grace Graham Wilson Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt III . Through her father, she was a niece of Robert Goelet , a first cousin of Robert Walton Goelet , and a granddaughter of Robert Goelet Sr. ,
390-432: The previous June. Reportedly, Wareham, a dog fancier from Elmhurst on Long Island , alleged Zimmerman promised to marry her on December 30, 1913, and she was ready to marry him still. After his daughter returned to Ohio from Europe, he was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. He left an estate valued at $ 10,000,000 in trust. From the beginning of his daughter's marriage, the Duke had financial difficulties and
416-653: The railroad and took a 999-year lease on the Père Marquette system and guaranteed the road's bonds. In his later years, he traveled through Europe and Africa. In 1901, he sailed aboard the Cunard Umbria with Miss B. Evans, his late wife's sister, for a month in Ireland with his daughter at Tandragee Castle in Northern Ireland . In 1878, Zimmerman was married to Marietta A. "Etta" Evans ( Urbana , Champaign County , Ohio , 1848 – 23 December 1882),
442-545: The remainder of the war, he was eventually made a Lieutenant and a ship commander at the age of nineteen (the youngest officer at his rank in the entire U.S. Navy ). After the War, he resigned his commission, was honorably discharged, and returned to Ohio. After the war, he went into the oil business, acquiring extensive holdings which he sold to John D. Rockefeller in exchange for shares in Standard Oil where he became
468-814: The southeast corner of Auburn and McMillan in Mount Auburn , an affluent neighborhood in Cincinnati , Hamilton County , Ohio , and was a member of the Loyal Legion , the Lotos Club , the American Yacht Club , and the Queen City Club of Cincinnati. He died at the Queen City Club on December 20, 1914. A few minutes before his death, he had been laughing over a $ 100,000 breach of promise suit filed against him in New York by Icy Wareham
494-589: Was Martin Zimmerman and his younger sister was Ellen (née Zimmerman) Laird. After his father's death, his mother remarried to Andrew Jackson LaBoiteaux in November 1859 in Hamilton County, Ohio , before her death in 1861. His grandfather was an officer in the Dutch Army . His father had moved to Mississippi from Ohio to inherit a foundry and several slaves. Eugene grew up at the family's business and
520-651: Was assigned to the Mississippi River Squadron . While in the Navy, his ship was struck by torpedo which killed several seamen and threw him into the Yazoo River . He participated in the Battle of Saint Charles and Duvall's Bluffs and served with distinction during the capture of Arkansas Post in 1863, after which he was promoted to Ensign . During the Vicksburg campaign in his hometown, Zimmerman
546-659: Was elected president of Dayton, Forth Wayne and Chicago Railway . In 1904, he was made president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway , and succeeded in getting the Queen and Crescent as its tributary and gaining control of the Père Marquette system, and the Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad . George M. Cumming, a lawyer with the United States Mortgage and Trust Company of New York,
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#1732775780429572-556: Was elected vice president to represent the interest of New York capital. In 1906, along with his son-in-law, he toured the route of the proposed Newry , Keady Tynan Railway in Ireland to see whether to build a railway there. In June 1905, Cumming was elected president of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad and served for one month; he was succeeded by F. A. Durban who was elected president in July 1905 but resigned in November, and
598-414: Was known as a profligate gambler who spent lavishly on other women. In 1908, Zimmerman paid off the Duke's debts but made them in the form of payments for the purchase of various Manchester estates (including Kimbolton Castle , Kylemore Castle and Tandragee Castle ), which were held for his grandson, Viscount Mandeville . By 1918, sixty-six petitions of bankruptcy had been filed against his son-in-law in
624-638: Was placed in charge of a mortar boat and sent up the Yazoo River, making a successful run against the Confederate blockade at Vicksburg in April 1863. During the campaign, he was involved in several missions and was promoted to acting Master and Officer of the side wheel steamer USS Ouachita after the surrender of Vicksburg which he held until the end of the War. During the siege , his former home and his father's business were destroyed. During
650-703: Was replaced by Zimmerman. The Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railway had taken control of the Ann Arbor Railroad from Rudolph Kleybolte & Co. in June 1905. The acquisition connected Toledo with Frankfort, Michigan , and essentially doubled the DT&;I system. The DT&I went bankrupt in 1908, forcing them to divest Ann Arbor Railroad to Zimmerman, who sold the line in 1909 to Joseph Ramsey, Jr. and Newman Erb, and retired from active business while still retaining control of his "immense coal and iron lands" in
676-529: Was sent to Cincinnati in 1859 to attend Farmer's College . In the spring of 1861, he began attending the preparatory school Gambier Academy with the intention of attending Kenyon College . Upon the outbreak of the Civil War , Zimmerman left the academy and tried to join the Union Navy , but was refused because he was too young. After some modifications, he was accepted, becoming a Master's mate and
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