Amos Tuck French
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Amos Tuck French | |
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| Born | July 20, 1863 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, 1941 (aged 78) Chester, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Spouses | Pauline LeRoy
(m. 1885; div. 1913)Martha Beeckman
(m. 1914) |
| Children | 6 |
| Relatives | William Henry Vanderbilt III (nephew) Amos Tuck (grandfather) Edward Tuck (uncle) William M.R. French (cousin) |
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Amos Tuck French (July 20, 1863 – November 15, 1941) was an American banker who was prominent in society. He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company.
French was born on July 20, 1863, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] He was the son of Ellen (née Tuck) French (1838–1915) and Francis Ormond French (1837–1893), a Harvard graduate who served as president of the Manhattan Trust Company. His sister, Ellen "Elsie" Tuck French, was a close friend of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and married Gertrude's brother, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, in 1901.[2] Elsie and Alfred divorced in 1909,[3][4][5] he later died on the Lusitania, and she remarried to Paul Fitzsimons in 1919.[6] Another sister, Elizabeth Richardson French,[7] was the wife of Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore.[8][9]
His paternal grandparents were Elizabeth Smith (née Richardson) French, a daughter of William Merchant Richardson (a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court), and Benjamin Brown French, who was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1847 and was Commissioner of Public Buildings under President Abraham Lincoln.[10][11] His maternal grandfather, and namesake, was Amos Tuck, a U.S. Representative and a founder of the Republican Party. His uncle, Edward Tuck,[12] was Vice Consul of the American Legation in Paris who owned and lived at Domaine de Vert-Mont and Château de Bois-Préau.[13]
He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. degree in 1885.[1]
Career
In 1887, he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and in 1888, he became treasurer, then secretary and eventually vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company, retiring in 1900 but staying a director until 1908.[1] He served as a director of the Northern Pacific Railway, and the Northern Securities Company (a railroad trust formed in 1901 by Harriman, Hill, and Morgan that controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, the Great Northern Railway, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad).[14]
