New Guard (money)
Ivy Lee and, 228–32
versus Old Guard (money), 114–15, 123, 168–69, 283–85
Newlands, Francis Griffith, 163
New Orleans aristocracy, 166–67
Newport aristocracy, 284, 292, 300–02
New York aristocracy, 143–44
Morris family, 103–05, 107, 109–10
new money and, 114–15
New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, 41
Oak Hill, 28–29, 30, 309–10
O’Brien, William S., 178–79
O’Connor, Thomas, 139
Of Plimoth Plantation (Bradford), 155
Old Guard (money), 16
breeding and, 315–16
versus New Guard (money), 114–15, 123, 168–69, 283–85
Washington, D.C., 162–64
Onassis, Jacqueline. See Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, 11, 30
Order of First Families of Virginia (FFV), 155, 159–60
Ortega, José Francisco de, 181–83
Ortega family, 201–02
Orthwein, James Busch, 176
Otis, Mrs. Harrison Gray, 47, 159
Pardee, Dr. Irving, 223–24
Pardee, Louise, 224
Pardee, Margaret Trevor, 76–79, 220–26, 319–20
Patroonships, 31
Paul, James, 234–35
Paul, Maury, 16
Peabody, Rev. Endicott, 243–45, 248
Peabody, George, 207
Pearce, Elizabeth, 109
Pelham Manor, 31
Pell, Claiborne, 241
Pell, Thomas, 31
Pennsylvania Railroad, 107–08
People’s Municipal League, 272
Perry, Caroline Slidell, 217
Perry, Commodore Matthew, 217, 219
Peter, Martha Custis, 165–66
Peter, Robert, 164
Pfohl, Jerry, 242
Philadelphia aristocracy, 106–09, 144–46
Philipsborough, 31
Philipse, Frederick, 31, 39
Phipps, Howard, Jr., 211
Pico, Pio, 194
Pignatelli, Princess, 196
Pioneers Club, 198–200
Pirie, Robert S., 211
Polo, 173
Porcellian Club, 268
Powell, Adam Clayton, III, 299
Pratt, Walter Merrian, 158, 159
Prep schools
embarrassment about, 241–42
famous attendees, 240, 242
Fortune criticism of, 239–40
Groton, 243–48
Hotchkiss, 248–53
upperclass designations, 5
Preston, John, 287–88
Proper Bostonians The (Amory), 141
Publicity
attitudes toward, 11–12, 13, 15–16
August Belmont and, 218
J. P. Morgan and, 208
Pulitzer family, 169
Puritans, 140
Queens of American Society, The (Ellet), 123–25
Railroad Kings, 179
Rancho Los Dos Pueblos, 183–88, 191
Randolph, Edmund, 94–96
Randolph, George Wythe, 101
Randolph, John, 94
Randolph, John of Roanoke, 96–98
Randolph, Sir John of Tazewell Hall, 93–94
Randolph, Judith, 98–99
Randolph, Nancy, 98–99, 105
Randolph, Peyton, 94
Randolph, Richard, 98–99
Randolph, Theodoric, 98
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 101
Randolph, William, 90, 91, 92–93
Randolph family, 90–92, 96–102
Ravenel, Mrs. St. Julien, 152, 154
Raysbrook, Conchita Sepulveda Chapman, 196–97
Reese, William W., 46–48
Rend, J. P., 288
Rensselaer Polytechynic Institute, 31
Rensselaerwyck, 31, 34–36
Revolutionary War
Alsop family silver and, 65
concern about, 6–7, 20
John Jay and, 44
Morris family and, 104–05
New Yorkers and, 48–49
Ripley, Mary Moncrieffe Livingston (Mrs. S. Dillon), 310, 316
Ripley, S. Dillon, 91, 211
Roberts, Mrs. George Brooke, 145
Rockefeller, John D., 228–29, 263
Rockefeller, John D., IV, 241
Rockefeller family, 13
Rockefeller Foundation, 228–29
Rokeby, 277–78
Rooka Hall, 75–76
Roosevelt, Anna Hall, 128–31
Roosevelt, Betty, 133
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 126, 128, 129–31, 141
Alice Roosevelt Longworth and, 134–36
Roosevelt, Elliott, 128–30
Roosevelt, Elliott, Jr., 130
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 9, 126, 132
Alice Roosevelt Longworth and, 134–36
as aristocrat, 247
Groton and, 240, 245, 247
Roosevelt, Gracie Hall, 130, 131
Roosevelt, Helen Astor, 133
Roosevelt, Isaac, 126, 132
Roosevelt, James, I, 126, 132
Roosevelt, James (grandson of James I), 132
Roosevelt, James (great-great-grandson of James I), 133
Roosevelt, James (half brother of Franklin D.), 126
Roosevelt, James (son of Franklin D.), 126
Roosevelt, James, IV, 133
Roosevelt, James Henry, 126
Roosevelt, James Roosevelt (“Rosy”), 132
Roosevelt, John Ellis, 127
Roosevelt, Rebecca Howland, 132
Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell, Jr., 127
Roosevelt, Theodore, 129, 130, 240
Groton and, 240, 246–47
Roosevelt family, 126–36
Hyde Park branch, 132
Ruiz, Don José Gabriel, 198
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, 58
St. Ange de Bellerive, Louis, 170
St. Augustine, Florida, 167
St. Cecilia Society, 151–54
St. Louis aristocracy, 169–77
St. Louis Country Club, 172–77
St. Mark’s School, 5
St. Paul’s School, 5, 290–91
San Francisco aristocracy, 178–79
Satterlee, Herbert, 208
Schieffelin, Hannah Lawrence, 73–76, 77
Schieffelin, Hans, 69
Schieffelin, Jacob, 63, 69–72, 73, 77
Schieffelin, Jacob, III, 69
Schieffelin & Conpany, 75
Schieffelin family, 69–78
Schiff, Jacob H., 231
Schuyler, Alida, 35–36
Scranton, William W., 240
Sears, John, 143
Segur, Harold A., 259–61
Seton, Elizabeth Ann, 264
Sherman, Mrs. W. Watt, 234
Shinkle, Andrew, 176
Silver Kings, 178
Slater, Samuel, 293
Slavery, 41, 91, 95, 96, 97
Slocum, Beryl, 299
Slocum, Eileen, 297–99
Smith, Bradford, 157
Smith, Craig, 242
Smith, William, 19
Smith, College, 5
Social clubs, 141–42, 198–99n.
See also Men’s clubs, individual clubs
Social Ladder, The (Van Rensselaer), 13, 205
Social registers, 12–13, 162
Society, changing meaning of, 14. See also Breeding; Class
Society of California Pioneers, 198–200
Society of the Cincinnati, 61
Somerset Club, 142
Sondheim, Stephen, 242
Southampton (New York), 284, 288, 291
Spanish dons, 183–89
Sports, 7–8, 172–73
Stanford, Leland, 179
State in Schuylkill. See Fish House
Steamboat, 120–22
St
evens, John, 120
Stevenson, Adlai E., 240, 241
Stewart, Justice Potter, 242
Stirling, Lady, 49, 50
Stirling, Major General Lord, 50–51
Stix family, 169
Stoope, Rev. Peter, 39–40
Strong, George Templeton, 123
Stuyvesant, Governor Peter, 144
Taft, William Howard, 240
Taft School, The, 5
Tammany Hall, 272–73
Tenney, Daniel G., Jr., 211
Terhune, Albert Payson, 8
Thaw, Harry K., 285–87
Thaw, William, 286, 287
Theory of the Leisure Class, The (Veblen), 227
Timmins, George Henry, 269–70
Timmins, Minna, 269–74
Tobin, Michael de Young, 199
Todd, Sarah, 116
Tuxedo Park (New York), 284–85, 291
Union Club, 208, 209, 213
Union League Club, 209
University Club, 47
Untermyer, Samuel, 208
Upper Ten, 114
Van Alen, James, 298
Van Amringe, Emily, 226
Van Buren, John, 113
Van Cortlandt, Eve Philipse, 38
Van Cortlandt, Jacobus, 38
Van Cortlandt, Mary Anna, 38
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 31
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 121
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 254
Vanderbilt, William H., 241
Vanderbilt family, 13
Van Rensselaer, Alida, 35–36
Van Rensselaer, Johannes, 36
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King, 13, 14, 49, 205
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 31
Van Rensselaer, Nicholas, 33–36
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 31
Van Rosenvelt, Klaes Martensen, 126
Van Stantvoord, George, 248–53
Vassar College, 5
Vaughan, Major General Harry H., 162
Veblen, Thorstein, 227
Veiled Prophet’s Ball, 171
Vevers, Tony, 242
von Bülow, Claus, 294, 298
von Hohenzollern, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, 175–76
Wade, Eleanor Jay Iselin, 312–14
Wagner, Robert, Jr., 242
Wagstaff, Samuel, Jr., 242
Walpole, Horace, 59
Wanamaker, Virginia Thaw, 287
Ward, Maria, 98
Washington, George, 10, 22, 60–61, 66
Washington, Martha, 61
Washington aristocracy, 162–66
Wealth, 7, 37–45
gospel of, 231
Wector, Dixon, 158, 178
Westinghouse, Mrs. George, 233
Wharton, Edith, 217, 219
White, Richard Mansfield, 285
White, Stanford, 285–87
Whitehouse, Norman de R., 235
Whitney, Richard, 243
Whitridge, Arnold, 211
Williams, Gray, 242
Williams, Roger, 292
Willing, Thomas, 105–06
Winthrop, John, 140
Winthrop family, 33
Wright, Louis B., 160
Wriston, Merritt, 294
Wynne family, 16
Yorba, Bernardo, 195–96
Zodiac Club, The, 205–06, 210–11, 214–15
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