Henry Francis du Pont
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Henry Francis du Pont was an American horticulturist, collector of early American furniture and decorative arts, breeder of Holstein Friesian cattle, and scion of the powerful du Pont family. Converte
Du Pont family in 1922
Ruth Wales du Pont
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Ruth Wales du Pont was an American socialite, philanthropist, amateur classical composer, and spouse of Henry Francis du Pont, who founded Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.
Henry Francis du Pont
…Museum of Art, and the New York Botanical Garden, among other cultural organizations. In 1916, after a seven-year courtship, he married socialite Ruth Wales (1889–1967), a Hyde Park neighbor of du Pont's Groton classmate Franklin Roosevelt, who attended their wedding. Ruth had little interest in farming and…
Ruth and Henry du Pont in 1916