William Lamon Harkness was an American businessman and inheritor of a large share of Standard Oil. - Wikipedia
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| Union Club of Cleveland |
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| 1908/10/17 | The sale of one of the finest residences in the Fifth Avenue section added a feature of unusual interest to yesterday's real estate dealings. The buyer is William L Harkness, a cousin of Edward S Harness of the Standard Oil Company. - The New York Times | Home | Fisk-Harkness House | Manhattan NYC | |||
| 1911/08/30 | Reportedly declining to hire a local pilot, William L Harkness' luxury steam yacht Gunilda steams ahead and founders on McGarvey Shoal, 8 kilometers from Rossport, Ontario. | Owner | Steam Yacht Gunilda (shipwreck) | Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area of Canada | |||
| 1919/05/10 | William L Harkness dies at his 53rd Street townhouse. | Died | Fisk-Harkness House | Manhattan NYC | |||
| 1919/05/13 | William L Harkness funeral is held on the first floor of his townhouse. | In Memoriam | Fisk-Harkness House | Manhattan NYC | |||
| 1919/05/13 | William L Harkness is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City. | In Memoriam | Woodlawn Cemetery | New York City | |||
| 1930/04/09 | Harkness writes to Exeter Principal Perry: What I have in mind is a classroom where students could sit around a table with a teacher who would talk with them and instruct them by a sort of tutorial or conference method. | Benefactor | Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH | |||
| 1930/11/00 | Harkness gives Exeter $5.8 million to support his conference method of teaching. Since then, the Academy's principal mode of instruction has been by discussion, "seminar style," around an oval table known as the Harkness table. | Benefactor | Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH |
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