Philanthropist. The daughter of Harry Harkness Flagler and Annie Louise Lamont, Mrs. Matthews was the grandaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of the Standard Oil Company. A graduate of the Chapin School in Manhattan, she held an honorary doctorate degree from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. An ardent horticulturist, she was a member of the Garden Council, the New York Botanical Gardens and the Rye Garden Club. Records show that when her grandfather Henry M. Flagler died in 1913, she was left their first $1 million, as part of the 8,000 shares of Standard Oil stock that they had inherited. Thirty years later, the trust was worth more than $9 million; by 1952, the year her father Harry Harkness Flagler died, the trust had appreciated to about $17 million. At that time, she came into another trust under his will and two other trusts from her mother, Annie Lamont Flagler. Although these trusts produced more than $1.5 million income annually. Jean Flagler Matthews died on March 22, 1979 while vacationing in Hawaii. Jean was buried just outside her 4th husbands mausoleum in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, New York.
Philanthropist. The daughter of Harry Harkness Flagler and Annie Louise Lamont, Mrs. Matthews was the grandaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of the Standard Oil Company. A graduate of the Chapin School in Manhattan, she held an honorary doctorate degree from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. An ardent horticulturist, she was a member of the Garden Council, the New York Botanical Gardens and the Rye Garden Club. Records show that when her grandfather Henry M. Flagler died in 1913, she was left their first $1 million, as part of the 8,000 shares of Standard Oil stock that they had inherited. Thirty years later, the trust was worth more than $9 million; by 1952, the year her father Harry Harkness Flagler died, the trust had appreciated to about $17 million. At that time, she came into another trust under his will and two other trusts from her mother, Annie Lamont Flagler. Although these trusts produced more than $1.5 million income annually. Jean Flagler Matthews died on March 22, 1979 while vacationing in Hawaii. Jean was buried just outside her 4th husbands mausoleum in Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, New York.
