Mary Montagu Billings French was an American heiress and society figure, as well as YWCA president and board member. She was the daughter of Frederick Billings and inherited the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park from him before she died. She passed it on to her daughter, Mary French Rockefeller.
Mary's son-in-law Laurance S. Rockefeller and her daughter Mary French Rockefeller.
View of Pogue Road on the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Carriage Road, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont
Frederick H. Billings was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He is known for his legal work on land claims during the early years of California's statehood and his presidency of the Northern Pacific Railway from 1879 to 1881.
1873 charcoal portrait by William Kurtz