Arthur Scott Burden
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Arthur Scott Burden | |
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| Born | August 11, 1879 |
| Died | June 16, 1921 (aged 41) White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University |
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| Children | Eileen Burden |
| Parent(s) | James Abercrombie Burden Sr. Mary Margaret Proudfit Irvin |
| Relatives | I. Townsend Burden (uncle) James A. Burden Jr. (brother) William Fletcher Burden (uncle) Irvin McDowell (uncle) Henry Burden (grandfather) Richard Irvin (grandfather) |
Arthur Scott Burden (August 11, 1879 – June 15, 1921)[1] was an American banker, equestrian, and member of the young set of New York society during the Gilded Age.
Burden was born on August 11, 1879, in Troy, New York. He was the youngest of four sons born to James Abercrombie Burden Sr. (1833–1906) and Mary Margaret Proudfit (née Irvin) Burden (1837–1920). His siblings included James A. Burden Jr., who married Florence Adele Sloane (daughter of Emily Thorn Vanderbilt); Richard Irvin Burden; and William Proudfit Burden, who married Natica Belmont (daughter of Oliver Belmont).
Burden was a grandson of merchant Richard Irvin and Scottish born entrepreneur Henry Burden, who founded Burden Iron Works of Troy, of which his brother James later served as the president of beginning in 1906.[2] Among his relatives was uncle William Fletcher Burden, uncle-in-law Gen. Irvin McDowell, and uncle I. Townsend Burden, who was prominent in New York society and was a member of the infamous 400 of New York Society, as dictated by Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister and published in The New York Times on February 16, 1892.[3][4]
Burden graduated from Harvard University with a S.B. in 1903.[5]
Career
Following his graduation from Harvard, Burden was connected with the Iron Works which his father and grandfather had been president of.[1] He later purchased a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and became a banker, working until his fall from during a hunting trip in England and then from a horse while playing polo at his estate in Jericho on Long Island, in 1913.[1]
Society life
Along with his wife Cynthia, brother William, sister-in-law Natica, and close friends Reginald Vanderbilt and Alfred Vanderbilt, he was part of a notable group of the younger set in society, both in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.[1] His wife and sister-in-law were very close friends and "were girls of exceptional charm and vivacity and few rivals for popularity at the dances and other entertainments of those days."[1]
Besides Arthur, many members of the group died early deaths, including sister-in-law Natica Rives Belmont (adopted daughter of George L. Rives and stepdaughter of Alva Vanderbilt Belmont) who died in 1908 of asphyxiation a few months after her marriage to William,[6] Alfred, who died aboard the RMS Lusitania in 1915,[7] and Reginald (father of Gloria Vanderbilt), who died from cirrhosis due to alcoholism in 1925.[8]
