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Margery Durant. Margery Pitt Durant (May 24, 1887 – February 3, 1969) was the daughter of businessman and General Motors founder, Billy Durant. She was notable for authoring a book about her father, her contributions to increasing travel abroad via aviation, photographing her aviation adventures, and for being a socialite. [1] [2] [3]
- Author, Aviation Enthusiast, Photographer, and Socialite
- William Durant Campbell (1907-1995), Edwina Campbell, Margery Randolph Daniel (1924-2013)
Jun 19, 2019 · June 19, 2019. Margery Durant and Ariel, circa 1931. When middle-aged socialite Margery Durant decided, in 1931, to undertake an aerial trek of 12,000 miles in a Lockheed Vega, she explained to ...
Margery Durant was born May 24, 1887 in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of William Crapo Durant and Clara Pitt Durant. She had a younger brother, Clifford, born in 1890. Margery’s father was the grandson of Henry Howland Crapo, a successful lumberman and railroad magnate, who served as Governor of Michigan from 1864-8.
Margery Durant was born in Flint, Michigan on May 24, 1887, the daughter of Clara Pitt Durant and William C. Durant, founder of General Motors. She attended schools in Flint; in Tarrytown, New York; and at the Mt. Vernon Seminary, Washington, D.C., from 1903 to 1905.
Margery Pitt Durant (May 24, 1887 – February 3, 1969) was the daughter of businessman and General Motors founder, Billy Durant. She was notable for authoring a book about her father, her contributions to increasing travel abroad via aviation, photographing her aviation adventures, and for being a socialite.
Margery Durant was an aviation pioneer in her own right, as intrepid as Amelia Earhart, but living to tell the tale. Hers was the first air-cooled engined plane to fly around the Mediterranean. Upon returning from the first leg of her trip in 1931, Margery announced to the press that she had flown 12,000 miles over 19 countries at a cost of 7 ...
Sep 6, 2011 · In a 1929 book about her father, Margery Durant asserted that her father drew the design at the dinner table shortly after finishing his soup and while awaiting the fried chicken. Though something of the meal might have put Durant to thinking about Parisian wallpaper, nothing beyond Ms. Durant’s memoir exists to suggest this.
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