1. Woodbury Kane was a yachtsman and bon vivant, and member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders.
18 Facts About Woodbury Kane
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Woodbury Kane was a noted hunter of big game, both in North America and South Africa.
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Woodbury Kane was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Knickerbocker Club, the Racquet Court Club, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, the Meadowbrook Hunt Club, the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club, the Larchmont Club, and the Yacht and Country Club.
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Woodbury Kane was born on February 8,1859, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Woodbury Kane was one of eight children born to Oliver Delancey Kane and his wife Louisa Kane.
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Woodbury Kane's siblings included Colonel Delancey Astor Kane, John Innes Kane, S Nicholson Kane, Louisa Dorothea Kane, Emily Astor Jay, and Sybil Kent Kane.
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Woodbury Kane entered Harvard College in the autumn of 1878; during university he was a member of the Hasty Pudding and Porcellian Clubs and other organizations.
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Woodbury Kane had a most charming personality, and his well-bred manner, his elegance of carriage and movement, his lithe and erect figure, and the zest with which he entered into tennis, football, boxing, and running races, together with his courtesy and good humor, made him conspicuous among his classmates.
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Woodbury Kane was remarkable for always being immaculately dressed even during the worst conditions.
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On July 1,1898, in the assault on San Juan Hill by the Rough Riders, and while leading K Troop, Woodbury Kane was wounded in the forearm and arm by Mauser rifle fire.
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Woodbury Kane is one of the Rough Riders featured in the foreground of Frederic Remington's famous painting of the charge on San Juan Hill.
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Woodbury Kane kept no servant; he took his regular turn in the ditches, in the mud, or torrid sun, or smothering rain.
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On March 28,1905, Woodbury Kane was married Sallie Hargous Elliot, the divorced former wife of Duncan Elliott, in Aiken, South Carolina.
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When he returned home, Woodbury Kane resumed his social life in Aiken, New York and Newport where he became a competitive yachtsman.
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Woodbury Kane died on December 5,1905, at his apartment at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City from paralysis of the heart after returning from duck hunting in South Carolina, after contracting a cold.
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Woodbury Kane is buried at the Kane family plot at Newport, Rhode Island.
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Captain Woodbury Kane left behind no children, but he did have his favorite polo pony, Punch.
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Punch had been retired to a park near Hyde Park, New York, where Woodbury Kane had frequently visited him.