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Bryan Lathrop

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Bryan Lathrop

Birth
Alexandria City, Virginia, USA
Death
13 May 1916 (aged 71)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.9606488, Longitude: -87.6615827
Plot
Ridgeland Section, Lot 7
Memorial ID
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Bryan Lathrop was an extremely successful real estate entrepreneur and wealth advisor in Chicago who had an "even broader impact on Chicago's transformation from a grimy, money-grubbing town into a world-class metropolis. Like his uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan and his sister, Florence, Lathrop endowed many institutions" such as the Newberry Library, Lincoln Park, Graceland Cemetery, the American Park and Outdoor Art Assn, the Art Institute, Children's Memorial Hospital. He was the mentor to famed landscape gardener, O.C. Simonds. (Source: Low-Key Genius by Barbara Geiger (US, Ferme Orme Press, 2011).

Bryan Lathrop was an extremely successful real estate entrepreneur and wealth advisor in Chicago who had an "even broader impact on Chicago's transformation from a grimy, money-grubbing town into a world-class metropolis. Like his uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan and his sister, Florence, Lathrop endowed many institutions" such as the Newberry Library, Lincoln Park, Graceland Cemetery, the American Park and Outdoor Art Assn, the Art Institute, Children's Memorial Hospital. He was the mentor to famed landscape gardener, O.C. Simonds. (Source: Low-Key Genius by Barbara Geiger (US, Ferme Orme Press, 2011).



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