1. Charles Deering was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist.
28 Facts About Charles Deering
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Charles Deering was an executive of the agricultural machinery company founded by his father that became International Harvester.
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Charles Deering was born July 31,1852, in South Paris, Maine, the son of Abby Reed Barbour and William Charles Deering.
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Charles Deering's father was a successful businessman then engaged in real estate speculation and the manufacture and sale of woolens.
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In 1856, Charles Deering's mother died, and, the following year, his father married Clara Barbour Cummings Hamilton, a cousin of his late wife.
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Charles Deering remained close to his half-brother and sister throughout his life.
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Charles Deering served as a naval officer until 1881, when he resigned in order to join his father's company.
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Naval service shaped Charles Deering by exposing him to the cultures of Europe and Asia.
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Charles Deering supplemented these experiences with extensive personal travel, developing cosmopolitan tastes, a cosmopolitan outlook, and a particular affinity with the arts of Spain.
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Charles Deering was a gifted amateur artist, and while still in the Navy he used his free time to become acquainted with leading artists and to visit the world's great art galleries.
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Charles Deering began a lifelong habit of collecting art, both by acknowledged masters and contemporaries.
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In 1893, Charles Deering took time off from his other duties to study painting in Paris under Zorn for an entire season.
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Charles Deering moved to Chicago, taking up permanent residence in Evanston and becoming the company's secretary.
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Charles Deering became chairman of the board of the newly created company.
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Charles Deering served in this capacity until 1910, when he retired.
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Charles Deering devoted the rest of his life to art collecting and to the creation of several estates in the United States and Europe.
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Charles Deering dreamed of creating an art center in Spain, and in 1910 he had the Palau Maricel built with the help of the artist Miquel Utrillo in Sitges, a town just south of Barcelona.
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Charles Deering's hope was that the complex would become a magnet for artists and artistic life, where people of many nations would come to make art and study.
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Around 1908, Charles Deering purchased some 212 acres of land in Buena Vista.
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Charles Deering hired the great Chicago landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds to lay out the grounds.
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Around this time, Charles Deering made the acquaintance of botanist David Fairchild and allowed the US Department of Agriculture to establish an experimental station on 25 acres of his property.
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The book Ornamental Gardening in Florida by Charles Deering Simpson is dedicated to him.
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Charles Deering correctly foresaw that development would soon engulf the Buena Vista property, and by 1913 he had begun buying land further down on the coast, along Old Cutler Road.
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Charles Deering built a fine stone house on his second property.
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Charles Deering was a member of the famous Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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In 1883, Charles Deering had married Marion Dennison Whipple, the daughter of Major General William Dennison Whipple.
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Charles Deering died on February 5,1927, in Miami, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
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Charles Deering's son Roger was a patron of the arts and a benefactor of Northwestern.