James Buchanan Duke
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James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke Univer
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James B. Duke House on Fifth Avenue, New York, as seen in 2010
Statue of James B. Duke in front of the West Campus Quad, pictured in July 2008
Doris Duke
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Doris Duke was an American billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, and socialite. She was often called "the richest girl in the world". Her great wealth, luxurious lifestyle, and love life attrac
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…Nanette Duke). They divorced in 1906 and had no children. In 1907 he married the widow Nanaline Holt Inman, with whom he had his only child, a daughter, Doris, born November 22, 1912. Doris was raised at Duke Farms located in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where her father had worked with landscapers such as James…
Duke in 1951
Duke created the Italian Garden to showcase sculptures that her father had collected, such as this replica of Canova's Three Graces
Duke with then-husband James H. R. Cromwell, January 1940