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Oliver Hazard Payne (July 21, 1839 – June 27, 1917) was an American businessman, organizer of the American Tobacco Company Trust, assisted with the formation of U.S. Steel, and was affiliated with Standard Oil.
Oliver Hazard Payne, his father Harry B. Payne, and William Collins Whitney were lifelong Democrats, somewhat of an oddity in the milieu of the late 19th century rich of New York. Harry B. Payne was a perpetual office seeker, and Oliver helped him get elected as a representative from Ohio for several terms.
Oliver Hazard Payne was a Cleveland-born businessman and philanthropist who became a major shareholder of Standard Oil and American Tobacco. He donated millions to Cornell Medical College, Yale, and other institutions, and owned a large yacht named Aphrodite.
Col. Oliver Hazard Payne was born in 1839 and named for Oliver Hazard Perry, the U.S. naval officer who became a national hero when he defeated a British squadron in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
Mar 5, 2020 · When Whitney collapsed in Washington in 1887, Oliver Hazard Payne hurried to his bedside. “He [Payne] was militarily erect, decisive and to outsiders so formal and possessed of such seeming hauteur that Henry Flagler, another Rockefeller partner, described him as kin to God,” Swanberg writes.
When the Civil War began, Oliver Hazard Payne was a student at Yale, class of 1863. He left Yale in October 1861 to join the Union Army as a volunteer for a three year term.
Oct 27, 2022 · Cleveland Masterworks: Oliver Hazard Perry Payne led the Cleveland-based 124th Ohio Volunteer Infantry through intense combat in the Civil War—rising through the ranks by age 24—before launching a thriving business career in oil with John D. Rockefeller and sharing his wealth with family and through philandtrhopy.
