ABOUT
Remembered as both a politician and a successful businessman, this conservative "Bourbon" Democrat served as President Grover Cleveland's first Secretary of the Navy and made his fortune in the legal, railway, steel, coal, financial, and horse racing industries.Over the course of his life, he bred nearly thirty American race-winning horses.His oldest son, Harry Payne Whitney, carried on the Whitney family's horse breeding legacy, producing a dozen Kentucky Derby horses.
BEFORE FAMEAfter graduating from Yale University in the early 1860s, he pursued a law degree at Harvard College.
PERSONAL LIFEA member of the wealthy and socially prominent Whitney family, he grew up with a brother, Henry Melville Whitney, who headed major steamship and railway companies, and with sisters, Lily and Susan, who married into other prominent families. His marriage to Flora Payne produced children named Harry, Pauline, Payne, Oliver, and Dorothy; his second wife (whom he married after Flora Payne's death) was Edith May.
The meaning of the name Whitney: From The White Island FUN FACTSBusiness Executive William Collins Whitney were born on Monday, birthstone is Ruby, the seaon was Summer in the Chinese year of , it is 179 days until William Collins Whitney next birthday.