Chauncey Devereux Stillman was an American philanthropist, art collector, conservationist, and banking heir.
28 Facts About Chauncey Stillman
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Chauncey Stillman was the senior class odist, penning his class ode and reading it at the graduation ceremony.
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In 1930 when his sister got married, Chauncey Stillman moved out of his childhood home on 67th Street and into a new seven-room penthouse on 33 East 70th Street.
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Chauncey Stillman served as a director of Freeport Minerals Company, beginning in December 1931.
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Chauncey Stillman believed in the free market but he believed strongly in patronage.
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Chauncey Stillman later served as a staff officer with the United States National Security Council.
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Chauncey Stillman dedicated his life to philanthropy, and was an advocate of homesteading and agricultural experimentation.
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In 1959, Chauncey Stillman donated a new Our Lady's Chapel at the Immaculate Conception Church in Brownsville, Texas, a community founded by his great-grandfather.
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Chauncey Stillman was a director of the National Audubon Society, a director of the New York Botanical Garden from 1946 to 1969, and a trustee of the New York Zoological Society for almost thirty years.
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Chauncey Stillman was an annual donor to the Animal Kingdom Foundation.
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Chauncey Stillman married Theodora Moran Jay of New York City on January 21,1939, in a chapel in her grandmother's house.
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Chauncey Stillman was the daughter of Elizabeth Morgan and DeLancey Kane Jay of Long Island, New York, and a descendant of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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Chauncey Stillman retained custody of their two daughters and received an "extremely large property settlement" in a sealed agreement.
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Chauncey Stillman collected Renaissance art, especially religious art such as works by Lorenzo di Credi and Francesco Francia.
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Chauncey Stillman's "prize" was Portrait of a Halberdier which was painted by Jacopo Pontormo in the 1530s.
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Chauncey Stillman was an avid equestrian and saw the beauty of rural Dutchess County, New York, while riding the Millbrook Hunt.
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Chauncey Stillman gradually expanded the estate to 1,200 acres.
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Chauncey Stillman raised vegetables and livestock, using the estate for agricultural experimentation.
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Chauncey Stillman became a pioneer in soil and water conservation, banning herbicides, rotating crops, and practicing biodynamic agriculture.
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Chauncey Stillman added twelve irrigation ponds and reforested his land.
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Chauncey Stillman prohibited automobiles on the property, instead adding twenty miles of carriage trails.
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Chauncey Stillman maintained a residence in New York City, and divided his time between both homes.
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Chauncey Stillman was a member of the New York Yacht Club, becoming its commodore in the 1960s.
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Chauncey Stillman was a member of the Carriage Association of America ; Caroline Kennedy rode with Stillman in his carriage at a CAA event in Newport, Rhode Island in March 1968.
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When he was 45 years old, Chauncey Stillman converted to Catholicism.
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In 1989, Chauncey Stillman died of lung cancer in his apartment in New York City at the age of 82 years.
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Chauncey Stillman left Wethersfield and much of his personal art collection to the Homeland Foundation.
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Chauncey Stillman's heirs stepped in and the foundation sold more paintings to be able to preserve Wethersfield.