Samuel Thorne (1835-1915)

He was born in Philadelphia and worked in his father's leather business until 1872 when he became interested in the Pennsylvania coal fields and became President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. He was a trustee of the Central Trust and the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company. He was also a Director of the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad, the Colorado & Southern Railway, the Great Northern Railway, the Sixth Avenue Railroad, the Northern Securities Company, the New York Dock Co., and the Bank of America. He married Phebe Van Schoonhoven and had five children (listed). They lived between 914 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C, and "The Crest" (see images) in Millbrook, N.Y., where he became a prize-winning cattle breeder. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club and died on James J. Hill's yacht in the Saint John River, Quebec.