Fernando Alfonso Yznaga del Valle was a Cuban American banker who was one of the best-known men of New York and foreign society and club life.
11 Facts About Fernando Yznaga
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Fernando Yznaga's life had been adventurous and, from a domestic point of view, somewhat of a stormy nature.
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Fernando Yznaga was the oldest of four children, and only son, born to merchant diplomat Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle and Ellen Maria Yznaga.
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Fernando Yznaga's father was from an old Cuban family who owned a large plantation and sugar mills in the vicinity of Trinidad, Cuba; they had connections to several Spanish aristocratic families.
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Fernando Yznaga's maternal grandfather, Samuel Clements, was a steamboat captain who owned Ravenswood Place, a plantation in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, which his mother inherited upon their death.
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Fernando Yznaga was with his sister in Davos when her youngest daughter, Lady Alice, died.
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Fernando Yznaga was graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, before returning south and earning an LL.
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Fernando Yznaga was "an excelled businessman" and made his fortune at the firm, working there for twenty years until his death in 1901.
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Fernando Yznaga was a member of the Union Club, the Tuxedo Club, the County Club, the Manhattan Club, the Athletic Club, the Meadow Brook Hunt Club, and one of the original members of the Metropolitan Club in 1891, where he lived.
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On September 22,1880, Fernando Yznaga was married to Mobile, Alabama-born Mary Virginia "Jennie" Smith, sister of Alva Vanderbilt at the Vanderbilt home in Oakdale on Long Island.
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Fernando Yznaga died of diphtheria at the Minturn Hospital in New York City on March 6,1901.