Lamon V. Harkness
Lamon V. Harkness was born in Bellevue, Ohio, United States on January 6th, 1850 and is the American Businessman. At the age of 65, Lamon V. Harkness biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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At the age of 16, Lamon bought a ranch outside of Eureka, Kansas. He entered the cattle business at the age of 19. About this same time, Lamon's father made an investment with JD Rockefeller to start Standard Oil. This investment would soon change the lives of the whole Harkness family.
After Standard Oil started on its way, Lamon move to Kansas City, Missouri where he dabbled in the banking business.
Standard Oil continued on to become a behemoth and a huge success. However, in 1888, (Lamon was 38) Lamon's father Stephen died at the age of 69. After his father's passing, Lamon decided to come back east and settle in Greenwich, Connecticut where he bought the William Avery Rockefeller mansion in 1891. The mansion was situated on 34 acres and had 22 bedrooms.
Following a trip to Kentucky in 1892, Lamon acquired a 400-acre (1.6 km2) farm in Donerail, Kentucky named Walnut Hall Farm. There, he developed a Standardbred horse breeding operation of major importance to the harness racing industry. In 1904, Walnut Hall had expanded to 2,000 acres and 100 mares. The farm became one of the best-known Standardbred farms in the world. The farm's Big Barn built by Harkness in 1897 is 476 feet long, and has 52 stalls, a sales area and auctioneer's block – and it's still in service 113 years later at the Kentucky Horse Park. When Harkness died in 1915, the then-5,000-acre farm with 1400 horses was passed to his heirs. Although sub-divided several times, a part of which is now home to the Kentucky Horse Park, Walnut Farm remains in the hands of his descendants.
In recognition of his contribution to the industry, in 1958 Lamon Harkness was inducted posthumously in the Harness Racing Hall of Fame.
Harkness was well known as a yachtsman who owned the SS Wakiva which became part of the United States Navy during 1917 and 1918 and had war service during World War I.
He was a member of The New York Athletic Club, Columbia Yacht Club, The New York Yacht Club and Greenwich Indian Harbor Yacht Club.