America's Secret Aristocracy (53 page)

Brown, Nicholas, II,
293

Brown family,
292–94

Brown University,
292
,
293
,
294

Burr, Aaron,
22
,
56
,
96
,
117

Busch, August Anheuser, Jr.,
169
,
172

Busch family,
169

Byrd family,
159–60

Cabot family,
139

Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez,
182

Cafe Society,
16

California aristocracy,
178–202

Californios,
180

Camarillo de Jones, Doña Carmen,
198

Camarillo family,
197–98

Cannibalism,
161

Carnegie, Andrew,
231
,
263

Carrillo, José Roberto,
181

Carrillo, Maria Antonia Victoria,
181

Carrillo, Pedro,
191

Cassatt, A. J.,
107
,
108

Cavalieri, Lina,
281

Cave Dwellers,
162–66

Century Association,
213

Chanler, Elizabeth,
274–77

Chanler, John Armstrong,
278
,
280–81

Chanler, Robert Winthrop,
281

Chanler, William Astor,
274
,
277
,
278

Chapin, Schuyler G.,
211

Chapman, Chanler,
279–80
,
281–82

Chapman, Eleanor Jay,
265
,
267

Chapman, Elizabeth Chanler,
274–77

Chapman, Henry,
265

Chapman, John Jay,
265–77

Chapman, John Jay, II,
279–80

Chapman, Minna Timmins,
269–74

Chapman, Olivia James,
279

Charles II, king of England,
34

Charleston aristocracy,
146–54

Charleston: The Place and the People
(Ravenel),
152

Chicago aristocracies,
168

Chilton Club,
141

Choate–Rosemary Hall School,
5

Chouteau, Auguste,
170

Chouteau, Pierre,
170

Chrylser, Walter,
242

Cinicnnati aristocracy,
168
,
169

Claggett, Bishop Thomas John,
164

Class,
3–5
,
315–16
.
See also
Breeding

Clermont,
86

Clermont State Historic Site,
308–09

Cleveland aristocracy,
168

Clinton, Sir Henry,
70
,
71

Coit, Rev. Dr. Henry Augustus,
268

Cole, Corinne Douglas Robinson Alsop,
67

Colleges, designations for,
5

Coming-out parties,
234–35

Comstock Lode,
179

Conger, Clement E.,
166

Congress of Charros,
196

Conspicuous consumption,
227
,
233

Cooper, Dr. Myles,
42

Cortlandt Manor,
31

Crocker, Charles,
179

Cruger, Mrs. Douglas,
113

Dale, Harriet Livingston Fulton,
26–27

Dallas aristocracies,
16

Deer hunting,
8–9

de la Guerra, Don José,
183

Delano, Laura,
128
,
133–34

Delano, Sara,
128
,
132

Den, Don Nicholas,
183–89
,
194

Den, Doña Rosa de,
183–89
,
192

De Young family,
199

Dogs, popularity of,
8

Dominguez, Don Juan José,
183
,
197

Dominguez, Manuel,
197

Douglas, Justice William O.,
162

Douglas, Mrs. William,
113

Duane, James,
19

Eckenrode, H. J.,
93

Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
(Beard),
227
,
228

Ellet, Elizabeth,
123–25
,
283

Ethel Walker School, The,
5

Etiquette,
112

Fair, James Graham,
178–79

Family,
13
.
See also
Marriage colonial,
82

networks through marriage,
24

Farr, Mrs. William S.,
163
,
164

Fashion,
7
,
112
,
140–41

Fathers of New England, The
(Andrews),
157

Fauchet, Joseph,
95

Fay School,
290–91

Field, Marshall,
168

First Gentlemen of Virginia, The
(Wright),
160

Fish, Mrs. Hamilton,
226

Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant,
233

Fish House,
209
,
211–12

Flood, James C. (“Big Jim”),
178–79

Flood family,
178
,
199

Florsheim family,
169

Forgan, Russell,
176

Forkingham, Lord, of Duncington,
176

Fortune
,
239–40

Four Hundred, The,
12

Foxcroft School, The,
5

Fox hunting,
8
,
172–73

Frankenheimer, John,
242

Fulton, Robert,
26
,
120–22

Gage, General Thomas,
42

Gallatin, Albert,
117

Gallatin, Albert Eugene,
118

Gardiner, Henry,
242

Gardiner, Robert David Lion,
8–9
,
13

Gardner, Isabella Stewart,
141
,
158–59

Gardner, William Armory,
246

General Society of Mayflower Descendants,
155–59

Goelet, Robert G.,
210–11

Golf,
173

Gospel of wealth,
231

Gould, George Jay,
234

Grant's Farm,
174

Green Book, The,
162

Greer, Louis Morris,
259

Greer, Mabel Seymour,
259–62

Groton,
243–48

Guillotin, Joseph Ignace,
60

Hagner, Helen Ray,
162

Hall, Anna,
128
,
129–31

Hall, Gordon (Dawn Pepita) Langley,
148–51

Hall, Valentine, Jr.,
127–28

Hall, Valentine, III,
128

Hamilton, Alexander,
10
,
21
,
56
,
78

Hamilton, Mrs. Alexander,
51

Hamilton Grange,
76

Hammons, Katherine Den Cheney,
187

Harbour Court,
296
,
301

Harriman, Edward H.,
236
,
302

Harriman, Kathleen,
302

Harriman, Mary,
236–38

Harvard College,
9
,
140

Hays, Jacob,
121–22

Heckscher, August,
211

Henderson, Natalie,
236–38

Hereditary societies,
198–99n

Hill, Rosa Antonia,
184

Hoban, James,
112

Homans, Abigail Adams,
142

Hone, Philip,
125

Hopkins, Mark,
179

Horses, popularity of,
8

Hotchkiss, Benjamin Berkeley,
249

Hotchkiss, Maria Bissell,
249

Hotchkiss School, The,
5
,
248–53

Howardon, Mary,
86

Howe, Lord Richard,
73

Howland, Rebecca,
132

Hull, John,
33

Hunting,
8–9
,
172–74

Huntington, Collis P.,
179

Hutton, William,
242

Hyde, James Hazen,
235–36

Ijams, Mrs. J. Horton,
264

Ijams family,
264

Ingersoll, Anna Warren,
145
,
146

Ingersoll, Jared, Jr.,
145

Ingersoll family,
145–46

Irvine, James,
195

Iselin, Arthur,
306–07

Iselin, C. Oliver,
307

Iselin, Eleanor Jay,
305–08
,
312–13

Iselin, John Jay,
91
,
211
,
214–15
,
311

Iselin, William Jay,
304
,
306

Isham, Henry Royall,
91
,
92

Jackson, Andrew,
9

Jacobo,
184–85

James, Olivia,
279

Jamestown (Virginia),
91–92
,
159–60

Jay, Augustus,
37–38

Jay, John,
10
,
37–45
,
265

career,
41–43
,
44
,
52–55

described,
21–22

education,
39–40

marriage,
18–24
,
43
,
58–59

named Chief Justice,
61

politics,
40–41
,
43–44

Robert R. Livingston, Jr., and,
19–20
,
22

Jay, Mary,
39

Jay, Peter,
38–39
,
41

Jay, Pierre,
37

Jay, Sarah Livingston,
38
,
44–45
,
265–66

described,
22

entertaining by,
56–58
,
64–65

in Europe,
52–57

marriage to John Jay,
18–24
,
43

Jay family

Livingston family and,
311–12

political philosophy of,
40–41

slavery and,
41

Jay Farm,
265–66
,
304
,
306–08

Jay Homestead,
304–05

Jay's Treaty,
75

Jefferson, Martha,
101

Jefferson, Thomas,
10
,
62
,
100–01
,
112

Junior League,
236–38

Kahn, Otto,
235

Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier,
256–58

Kennedy, John F.,
240
,
241

Kennedy, Moorhead,
10–11

Kidd, Captain William,
84–85

King, Mary Alsop,
66–67
,
68

King, Rufus,
66

Kissam, Benjamin,
43

Knickerbocker Club,
209

Knowles, Gorham,
178

Knox, Seymour H.,
242

Kortright, Elizabeth,
51

Language, aristocratic,
3–4
,
6

Lawrence, Ann,
70–71

Lawrence, Effingham,
75

Lawrence, Hannah,
71–72

Lawrence, John,
70–71

Lawrence, John B.,
75

Lawrence, Sir Robert,
70

Lawrence, William,
70–71

Lee, Ivy Ledbetter,
228–32
,
263
,
315

Lee, James,
229

Lee, Janet,
257

Lee family,
159

Legal profession,
41–42

Legaré, Mrs. Sidney Kent,
164–65

Lehman, Robert,
242

Leland, Jack,
149
,
150

Lenox, James,
218

Levy, Uriah Phillips,
101

Lewis, Annie Burr,
253–54

Lewis, Wilmarth S.,
253–55

Liberty Hall,
23–24

Lindley, Denver,
242

Lindsay, John V.,
241–12

Links Club,
209–10

Livingston, Alida Schuyler Van Rensselaer,
35–36
,
81

Livingston, Edward,
97
,
121

Liningston, Gilbert,
81
,
82

Livingston, Goodhue,
10–11
,
16
,
91

Livingston, Harriet,
26

Livingston, Henry H.,
28–30
,
309–10

Livingston, Johannes (John),
81

Livingston, John,
28

Livingston, Maria,
28

Livingston, Peter Van Brugh,
87

Livingston, Mrs. Peter Van Brugh,
29–30

Livingston, Philip,
81–87

Livingston, Philip, Jr.,
87–88

Livingston, Robert,
31
,
32–36
,
80–81
,
91

Captain Kidd scandal,
84–85

Livingston, Robert, Jr. (Robert of Clermont),
81–89

Livingston, Robert Linlithgow, Jr.,
91

Livingston, Robert R., Jr.,
86–88

John Jay and,
19–20
,
22

Robert Fulton and,
26
,
120–21

Louisiana Purchase caper,
120n

Livingston, Sarah,
25–26

Livingston, Sarah Van Brugh.
See
Jay, Sarah Livingston

Livingston, William,
19
,
87
,
88

Livingston Code,
97

Livingston family,
15
,
40
,
103

accomplishments of,
90–91

family disputes,
80–89

Jay family and,
311

reunion,
308–11

Livingston Manor,
28–30
,
36
,
80–81

Lodge, Henry Cabot,
248