George D. Widener Jr.
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George Dunton Widener Jr. was an American thoroughbred racing owner and breeder. He raised 102 stakes winners, won the Travers Stakes a record-tying five times, and was the first person designated an
George D. Widener Jr
Widener (left) with his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener and architect Horace Trumbauer in Harvard Yard during the planning for Widener Library, c. 1912.
Erdenheim Farm, Widener's 446-acre estate and horse farm in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania
Eleanor Elkins Widener
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Eleanor Elkins Widener née Eleanore Elkins, also known as Eleanor Elkins Widener Rice was an American heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress. She was the daughter of wealthy businessman W
George D. Widener Jr.
…Widener was born on March 11, 1889, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into the wealthy Widener family. He was the younger son of George Dunton Widener and Eleanor Elkins Widener, and brother to Harry Elkins Widener and Eleanor Widener Dixon. His grandfathers, the streetcar magnate Peter A. B. Widener and the oil and steel…
Eleanor Elkins Widener
Widener and her second husband lived in the 30,000 square-foot Miramar mansion in Rhode Island.
She was interred in the Widener Family Mausoleum in Laurel Hill Cemetery.