Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings (September 17, 1861 in Saratoga, New York – May 6, 1937 in Santa Barbara, California) was a wealthy industrialist, a noted horseman and tycoon. When he retired in 1901 at age 40 he was president of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company in Chicago, Illinois. He owned and bred number of famous race horses, among them the Kentucky Derby winner Omar Khayyam and the trotter Lou Dillon.
A notable eccentric, Billings invested much of his time and money promoting the sport of matinee riding (trotting), a sport that is still popular today in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.K.G._Billings
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023777/
Billings commissioned the yacht TS Vanadis designed by Clinton Crane of Tams, Lemoine & Crane in New York, built at A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1908. She was ordered by Mr. C.K.G. Billings of New York. She was built of steel, rigged as a triple screw schooner and, unusually, was powered by steam turbines. Capable of 16½ knots at full speed, she was registered at 1,092 tons gross and measured 249½ feet in length with a 32½ foot beam. She was sold in 1916 to Mr. M.F. Plant. She was then used by the Russian Navy under the name of Poryvs from 1917-1919. Sold to Baron de Linder and renamed Finlandia. In 1925 she was bought by Lt. Cmdr. Montague Grahame-White for his charter business and renamed to Ianara. Sold for the last time in 1935, she was reportedly broken up in 1938
Friday, September 27, 2013
"FARNSWORTH" The Long Island Home of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., at Locust Valley—A Country Estate in Every Respect Perfectly Appointed : http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2013/09/farnsworth-long-island-home-of-c-k-g.html
Inwood Estate http://myinwood.net/ckg-billings-estate/
A notable eccentric, Billings invested much of his time and money promoting the sport of matinee riding (trotting), a sport that is still popular today in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.K.G._Billings
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023777/
Billings commissioned the yacht TS Vanadis designed by Clinton Crane of Tams, Lemoine & Crane in New York, built at A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1908. She was ordered by Mr. C.K.G. Billings of New York. She was built of steel, rigged as a triple screw schooner and, unusually, was powered by steam turbines. Capable of 16½ knots at full speed, she was registered at 1,092 tons gross and measured 249½ feet in length with a 32½ foot beam. She was sold in 1916 to Mr. M.F. Plant. She was then used by the Russian Navy under the name of Poryvs from 1917-1919. Sold to Baron de Linder and renamed Finlandia. In 1925 she was bought by Lt. Cmdr. Montague Grahame-White for his charter business and renamed to Ianara. Sold for the last time in 1935, she was reportedly broken up in 1938
Friday, September 27, 2013
"FARNSWORTH" The Long Island Home of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., at Locust Valley—A Country Estate in Every Respect Perfectly Appointed : http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2013/09/farnsworth-long-island-home-of-c-k-g.html
Inwood Estate http://myinwood.net/ckg-billings-estate/
Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings (September 17, 1861 in Saratoga, New York – May 6, 1937 in Santa Barbara, California) was a wealthy industrialist, a noted horseman and tycoon. When he retired in 1901 at age 40 he was president of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company in Chicago, Illinois. He owned and bred number of famous race horses, among them the Kentucky Derby winner Omar Khayyam and the trotter Lou Dillon.
A notable eccentric, Billings invested much of his time and money promoting the sport of matinee riding (trotting), a sport that is still popular today in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.K.G._Billings
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023777/
Billings commissioned the yacht TS Vanadis designed by Clinton Crane of Tams, Lemoine & Crane in New York, built at A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1908. She was ordered by Mr. C.K.G. Billings of New York. She was built of steel, rigged as a triple screw schooner and, unusually, was powered by steam turbines. Capable of 16½ knots at full speed, she was registered at 1,092 tons gross and measured 249½ feet in length with a 32½ foot beam. She was sold in 1916 to Mr. M.F. Plant. She was then used by the Russian Navy under the name of Poryvs from 1917-1919. Sold to Baron de Linder and renamed Finlandia. In 1925 she was bought by Lt. Cmdr. Montague Grahame-White for his charter business and renamed to Ianara. Sold for the last time in 1935, she was reportedly broken up in 1938
Friday, September 27, 2013
"FARNSWORTH" The Long Island Home of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., at Locust Valley—A Country Estate in Every Respect Perfectly Appointed : http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2013/09/farnsworth-long-island-home-of-c-k-g.html
Inwood Estate http://myinwood.net/ckg-billings-estate/
A notable eccentric, Billings invested much of his time and money promoting the sport of matinee riding (trotting), a sport that is still popular today in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.K.G._Billings
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005023777/
Billings commissioned the yacht TS Vanadis designed by Clinton Crane of Tams, Lemoine & Crane in New York, built at A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1908. She was ordered by Mr. C.K.G. Billings of New York. She was built of steel, rigged as a triple screw schooner and, unusually, was powered by steam turbines. Capable of 16½ knots at full speed, she was registered at 1,092 tons gross and measured 249½ feet in length with a 32½ foot beam. She was sold in 1916 to Mr. M.F. Plant. She was then used by the Russian Navy under the name of Poryvs from 1917-1919. Sold to Baron de Linder and renamed Finlandia. In 1925 she was bought by Lt. Cmdr. Montague Grahame-White for his charter business and renamed to Ianara. Sold for the last time in 1935, she was reportedly broken up in 1938
Friday, September 27, 2013
"FARNSWORTH" The Long Island Home of C. K. G. Billings, Esq., at Locust Valley—A Country Estate in Every Respect Perfectly Appointed : http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2013/09/farnsworth-long-island-home-of-c-k-g.html
Inwood Estate http://myinwood.net/ckg-billings-estate/
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