Ellen Battell Stoeckel was an American arts patron. Stoeckel had a long association with Yale University, music and her hometown of Norfolk, Connecticut. After her death her expansive estate, Whitehou
View of the Whitehouse (on left) in Norfolk, Connecticut, where Ellen Battell Stoeckel was born, lived and later bequeathed to Yale University after her death
The Music Shed in Norfolk, home of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
John Taylor Terry was an American merchant and banker.
Ellen Battell Stoeckel
…shortly after giving birth to her. As a child, Ellen Battell was trained in music, learning piano. In 1873 Battell married Frederick Peet Terry, son of John T. Terry. The couple had one son, Frederick Peet Terry. Ellen Battell Terry was widowed the next year, and returned to Connecticut to live with her father. Ellen…
Terry, as found in the Illustrated American biography; containing memoirs, and engravings and etchings of representative Americans. vol. 4, 1895
Pinkstone, Terry's estate in Tarrytown, New York