Allen Winden Farm

Islip, Suffolk County, New York

Built in 1888, for William Dick (1824-1910), a native of Hanover in Germany who made his fortune refining sugar in Brooklyn. He was a senior member of the Sugar Trust and President of the Manufacturers National Bank. This was his summer home, designed by Lamb & Rich, and when he died in 1910 he left the estate and $30 million to his son, J. Henry Dick (1851-1925). Henry continued the family sugar businesses and divided his time between here and his townhouse in Manhattan....

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William Karl Dick

William K. Dick, of New York; Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co.

1888-1953

Madeleine (Force) Astor

Mrs Madeleine Talmage (Force) Astor, Dick, then Fiermonte

1893-1940

On his death in 1925, he left the farm to his sons, the eldest being William K. Dick (1888-1953), Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Company who married Madeleine, widow of Jack Astor who died aboard the Titanic. His brother, Adolph, enlarged the house in the 1930s and it remained in their family until the 1960s when it was eventually demolished.

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