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Feb 16, 2022 · Let’s meet Arabella Huntington, the real Sylvia Chamberlain. Like the fictional Mrs. Chamberlain, Arabella had a scandalous past. As a young girl, she caught the eye of a self-made, uneducated railroad magnate, Collis Huntington, who was 32 years her senior.
Apr 25, 2022 · His second wife who had cared for his ailing first wife in NY, Arabella Duval Huntington (1851-1924) became the wealthiest woman in America after Collis Huntington’s death. With this money Arabella furnished houses and estates in San Francisco, the US Adirondacks, Paris and a mansion in New York.
May 14, 2011 · What you may not know is that Huntington’s estate once had a gallery dedicated to his wife, Arabella. Known as Belle, she probably was born in Alabama, and through brains and charm she became...
Jul 16, 2013 · Henry’s pursuit of Arabella would go on for seven more years. You can purchase The Art of Wealth at The Huntington’s Bookstore & More or order it from the store’s website. You can also read an excerpt from the book in the latest issue of Huntington Frontiers, available for download here.
British, 1743 - 1809. Arabella Duval Yarrington was born in the early 1850s, a daughter of Catherine J. and Richard Milton Yarrington, a machinist who died in Richmond in 1859. In the late ….
As early as 1872 Arabella was the tenant in a house on Lexington Avenue in New York owned by the railroad magnate Collis Huntington, and their acquaintance may have gone back to before 1870. Huntington's first wife died in October 1883, and he married Arabella in July of the following year.
An inventory of her papers at Syracuse University. Huntington, Arabella Duval, 1850 or 51-1924. Papers of the American philanthropist and collector. Her first husband was financier Collis P. Huntington; her second husband, Henry E. Huntington.
