America's Secret Aristocracy (54 page)

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt,
134–36

Lord, J. Couper,
224

Lowell, Percival,
270–71

Lundberg, Ferdinand,
12–13

McAllister, Ward,
12

McCormick, Cyrus,
168

McCormick, Edith Rockefeller,
284

McCosh, James,
230

Mackay, John William,
178–79

McVitty, Honoria Livingston,
29

Mallon, Isabel A.,
112

Manigault, Peter,
150

Manigault family,
153–54

Manners,
4–5
.
See also
Etiquette

Manorial system,
30–31

Marie Antoinette,
54
,
55
,
60

Marriage.
See also
Family

family networks and,
24–25

obedient role of wife in,
58–59

partners of different status,
50

Marshall, Louis,
231

Martin, Frederick Townsend,
235

Mayflower Descendants,
155–59

Mellon, Henry,
224

Men's clubs,
208–10
.
See also
individual clubs

Metropolitan Club,
208

Miss Porter's School,
5
,
254

Mitchell, Charles E.,
288

Mitchell, Craig K. J.,
288–91

Money trust,
228

Monroe, James,
50
,
51

Montgomery aristocracy,
166

Monticello,
101

Moot, The,
19

Morgan, J. Pierpoint,
206–10
,
228

Groton and,
243–44
,
248

Morgan, Junius Spencer,
207

Morris, Anthony,
106–07

Morris, Benjamin P., Jr.,
105
,
108

Morris, Bingham,
257

Morris, Gouverneur,
99
,
104–05
,
106

Morris, Jacob Wolcott,
105
,
109

Morris, Lewis (first),
31
,
103

Morris, Lewis (grandson of Morris the Signer),
224

Morris, Lewis (Morris the Signer),
104

Morris, Lewis (nephew of first),
103

Morris, Robert,
105–06

Morrisania,
31
,
103
,
104
,
110

Morris families

New York,
103–05
,
107
,
108–10

Philadelphia,
106–09

three families,
105–09

Mortimer, Stanley G.,
302–03

Morton, Quincey,
49

Moustier, Count de,
57

Murray, Buela,
73

Murray, Jean Shaw,
162

Murray family,
73

Nesbit, Evelyn,
285

New Guard (money)

Ivy Lee and,
228–32

versus Old Guard (money),
114–15
,
123
,
168–69
,
283–85

Newlands, Francis Griffith,
163

New Orleans aristocracy,
166–67

Newport aristocracy,
284
,
292
,
300–02

New York aristocracy,
143–44

Morris family,
103–05
,
107
,
109–10

new money and,
114–15

New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves,
41

Oak Hill,
28–29
,
30
,
309–10

O'Brien, William S.,
178–79

O'Connor, Thomas,
139

Of Plimoth Plantation
(Bradford),
155

Old Guard (money),
16

breeding and,
315–16

versus New Guard (money),
114–15
,
123
,
168–69
,
283–85

Washington, D.C.,
162–64

Onassis, Jacqueline.
See
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America,
11
,
30

Order of First Families of Virginia (FFV),
155
,
159–60

Ortega, José Francisco de,
181–83

Ortega family,
201–02

Orthwein, James Busch,
176

Otis, Mrs. Harrison Gray,
47
,
159

Pardee, Dr. Irving,
223–24

Pardee, Louise,
224

Pardee, Margaret Trevor,
76–79
,
220–26
,
319–20

Patroonships,
31

Paul, James,
234–35

Paul, Maury,
16

Peabody, Rev. Endicott,
243–45
,
248

Peabody, George,
207

Pearce, Elizabeth,
109

Pelham Manor,
31

Pell, Claiborne,
241

Pell, Thomas,
31

Pennsylvania Railroad,
107–08

People's Municipal League,
272

Perry, Caroline Slidell,
217

Perry, Commodore Matthew,
217
,
219

Peter, Martha Custis,
165–66

Peter, Robert,
164

Pfohl, Jerry,
242

Philadelphia aristocracy,
106–09
,
144–46

Philipsborough,
31

Philipse, Frederick,
31
,
39

Phipps, Howard, Jr.,
211

Pico, Pio,
194

Pignatelli, Princess,
196

Pioneers Club,
198–200

Pirie, Robert S.,
211

Polo,
173

Porcellian Club,
268

Powell, Adam Clayton, III,
299

Pratt, Walter Merrian,
158
,
159

Prep schools

embarrassment about,
241–42

famous attendees,
240
,
242

Fortune
criticism of,
239–40

Groton,
243–48

Hotchkiss,
248–53

upper-class designations,
5

Preston, John,
287–88

Proper Bostonians The
(Amory),
141

Publicity

attitudes toward,
11–12
,
13
,
15–16

August Belmont and,
218

J. P. Morgan and,
208

Pulitzer family,
169

Puritans,
140

Queens of American Society, The
(Ellet),
123–25

Railroad Kings,
179

Rancho Los Dos Pueblos,
183–88
,
191

Randolph, Edmund,
94–96

Randolph, George Wythe,
101

Randolph, John,
94

Randolph, John of Roanoke,
96–98

Randolph, Sir John of Tazewell Hall,
93–94

Randolph, Judith,
98–99

Randolph, Nancy,
98–99
,
105

Randolph, Peyton,
94

Randolph, Richard,
98–99

Randolph, Theodoric,
98

Randolph, Thomas Jefferson,
101

Randolph, William,
90
,
91
,
92–93

Randolph family,
90–92
,
96–102

Ravenel, Mrs. St. Julien,
152
,
154

Raysbrook, Conchita Sepulveda Chapman,
196–97

Reese, William W.,
46–48

Rend, J. P.,
288

Rensselaer Polytechynic Institute,
31

Rensselaerwyck,
31
,
34–36

Revolutionary War

Alsop family silver and,
65

concern about,
6–7
,
20

John Jay and,
44

Morris family and,
104–05

New Yorkers and,
48–49

Ripley, Mary Moncrieffe Livingston (Mrs. S. Dillon),
310
,
316

Ripley, S. Dillon,
91
,
211

Roberts, Mrs. George Brooke,
145

Rockefeller, John D.,
228–29
,
263

Rockefeller, John D., IV,
241

Rockefeller family,
13

Rockefeller Foundation,
228–29

Rokeby,
277–78

Rooka Hall,
75–76

Roosevelt, Anna Hall,
128–31

Roosevelt, Betty,
133

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
126
,
128
,
129–31
,
141

Alice Roosevelt Longworth and,
134–36

Roosevelt, Elliott,
128–30

Roosevelt, Elliott, Jr.,
130

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
9
,
126
,
132

Alice Roosevelt Longworth and,
134–36

as aristocrat,
247

Groton and,
240
,
245
,
247

Roosevelt, Gracie Hall,
130
,
131

Roosevelt, Helen Astor,
133

Roosevelt, Isaac,
126
,
132

Roosevelt, James, I,
126
,
132

Roosevelt, James (grandson of James I),
132

Roosevelt, James (great-great-grandson of James I),
133

Roosevelt, James (half brother of Franklin D.),
126

Roosevelt, James (son of Franklin D.),
126

Roosevelt, James, IV,
133

Roosevelt, James Henry,
126

Roosevelt, James Roosevelt (“Rosy”),
132

Roosevelt, John Ellis,
127

Roosevelt, Rebecca Howland,
132

Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, Jr.,
127

Roosevelt, Theodore,
129
,
130
,
240

Groton and,
240
,
246–47

Roosevelt family,
126–36

Hyde Park branch,
132

Ruiz, Don José Gabriel,
198

Rush, Dr. Benjamin,
58

St. Ange de Bellerive, Louis,
170

St. Augustine, Florida,
167

St. Cecilia Society,
151–54

St. Louis aristocracy,
169–77

St. Louis Country Club,
172–77

St. Mark's School,
5

St. Paul's School,
5
,
290–91

San Francisco aristocracy,
178–79

Satterlee, Herbert,
208

Schieffelin, Hannah Lawrence,
73–76
,
77

Schieffelin, Hans,
69

Schieffelin, Jacob,
63
,
69–72
,
73
,
77

Schieffelin, Jacob, III,
69

Schieffelin & Conpany,
75

Schieffelin family,
69–78

Schiff, Jacob H.,
231

Schuyler, Alida,
35–36

Scranton, William W.,
240

Sears, John,
143

Segur, Harold A.,
259–61

Seton, Elizabeth Ann,
264

Sherman, Mrs. W. Watt,
234

Shinkle, Andrew,
176

Silver Kings,
178

Slater, Samuel,
293

Slavery,
41
,
91
,
95
,
96
,
97

Slocum, Beryl,
299

Slocum, Eileen,
297–99

Smith, Bradford,
157

Smith, Craig,
242

Smith, William,
19

Smith, College,
5

Social clubs,
141–42
,
198–99n
.

See also
Men's clubs, individual clubs

Social Ladder, The
(Van Rensselaer),
13
,
205

Social registers,
12–13
,
162

Society, changing meaning of,
14
.
See also
Breeding; Class

Society of California Pioneers,
198–200

Society of the Cincinnati,
61

Somerset Club,
142

Sondheim, Stephen,
242

Southampton (New York),
284
,
288
,
291

Spanish dons,
183–89

Sports,
7–8
,
172–73

Stanford, Leland,
179

State in Schuylkill.
See
Fish House

Steamboat,
120–22

Stevens, John,
120

Stevenson, Adlai E.,
240
,
241

Stewart, Justice Potter,
242

Stirling, Lady,
49
,
50

Stirling, Major General Lord,
50–51

Stix family,
169

Stoope, Rev. Peter,
39–40

Strong, George Templeton,
123

Stuyvesant, Governor Peter,
144

Taft, William Howard,
240

Taft School, The,
5

Tammany Hall,
272–73

Tenney, Daniel G., Jr.,
211

Terhune, Albert Payson,
8

Thaw, Harry K.,
285–87

Thaw, William,
286
,
287

Theory of the Leisure Class, The
(Veblen),
227

Timmins, George Henry,
269–70

Timmins, Minna,
269–74

Tobin, Michael de Young,
199

Todd, Sarah,
116

Tuxedo Park (New York),
284–85
,
291

Union Club,
208
,
209
,
213