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Architect William West Durant was Durant Rose's only brother. She sued him many times over forty years, for her portion of their father's estate. The legal battle was reported in detail in newspapers. She even had him arrested in 1898. By the time the courts ruled in her favor, William had spent much
William West Durant was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1850. He attended Twickenham School in England and Bonn University in Germany, and traveled extensively as a youth in Europe and Africa. At 24, his father summoned him home from Egypt to help develop the central Adirondacks for tourism.
Great Camp Sagamore was built in 1897 by visionary Great Camp designer William West Durant on 1,526 acres of remote wilderness in the Adirondack Park. The Camp was a wilderness retreat for the Vanderbilt family for half a century. It is now a National Historic Landmark managed by a non-profit educational institution as a public trust open to all.
Janet Stott was married Oct. 15, 1884 at St. Barnabas, Stottville to William West Durant (1850-1934). The New Yorker was the son of Dr. Thomas C. Durant, of the Union Pacific Railroad. William is widely credited with opening up the Adirondacks for summer camps particularly in Township 40 around Raquette Lake. He was...
On 15 October 1884 Janet Lathrop Stott and William West Durant were married at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Stottville. For 20 years two Stott women fired a small cannon (now at the Adirondack Museum) on Bluff Point every Sunday to alert church goers that the small steamer was approaching. From 1880 to 1898 the annual fund-raising bazaar was ...
Oct 1, 2018 · William. Thomas Durant, the master of all schemers, had a plan in mind when he called his family home in 1873. His son, William West Durant, was destined to help him regain his wealth. While working to build the Transcontinental Railroad, Durant began another project.
