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Lamon Vanderburgh Harkness (January 6, 1850 – January 17, 1915) was an American businessman and one of the largest stockholders in Standard Oil. Lamon V. Harkness became involved with Standard Oil through his father Stephen V. Harkness, who was a primary silent investor in the formation of Standard Oil .
Biography: Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1850, Lamon Harkness went West as a young man and settled in the cattle business in Kansas City, Missouri. Upon the death of his father, he returned to Greenwich, Connecticut to carry on the family oil business.
Lamon V. Harkness died intestate on January 17, 1915, at the home of his daughter, Myrtle H. Macomber, in San Benito County, in this state. Mrs. Macomber petitioned the superior court of said county for letters of administration on the ground that the decedent died in San Benito County, leaving estate therein and elsewhere in California and ...
May 2, 2023 · Lamon Vanderburgh Harkness (January 6, 1850 – January 17, 1915) was an American businessman and one of the largest stockholders in Standard Oil. He became involved with Standard Oil through his father, Stephen V. Harkness, who was a primary silent investor in the formation of Standard Oil.
Lamon Vanderburgh Harkness (January 6, 1850 – January 17, 1915) was an American businessman and one of the largest stockholders in Standard Oil. Lamon V. Harkness became involved with Standard Oil through his father Stephen V. Harkness, who was a primary silent investor in the formation of Standard Oil.
Lamon V. Harkness half brother Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist . Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund , Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the ...
This is an appeal by the administrators of the estate of the decedent, Lamon V. Harkness, from an order of the Surrogate's Court remitting the proceedings to an appraiser to appraise the estate of decedent, upon the determination reached by the surrogate that the decedent at his death had his domicile in the State of New York.
