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Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
- American
- 11, including Nancy
- November 4, 1843, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
- Henry Scarsbrook Langhorne (grandfather)
The Langhorne sisters of Virginia were a phenomenon in America, in the South and then in the North, long before the third of Chillie Langhorne's five daughters crossed the Atlantic and became, as Nancy Astor, in 1919, the first woman to take her seat in the British Parliament. For a decade or two after that, she was probably the most famous ...
Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an United States railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
She was the eighth of eleven children born to railroad businessman Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and Nancy Witcher Keene. Following the abolition of slavery, Chiswell struggled to make his operations profitable, and with the destruction of the war, the family lived in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born.
- Politician
- Conservative
- Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, Nancy Witcher Keene
- Lucy Middleton
21 de mai. de 2015 · May 21, 2015. A view of the library in collector Chiswell Langhorne's New York apartment. (Photographs by Paul Lewis.) "Living in a Philip Johnson building, you have to be creative and do everything you can to create more wall space," Chiswell Langhorne explained while showing us around his glass-walled SoHo apartment.
Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
12 de abr. de 2000 · By George Hodgman. Published on April 12, 2000. The five daughters of Virginia railroad entrepreneur Chiswell Langhorne (1843-1919) and his wife, Nancy, graced the American and continental...
