James Duncan PITNEY
Characteristics
| Type | Value | Date | Place | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | James Duncan PITNEY |
|
||
| occupation | J. Duncan Pitney Art Legacy |
|
Events
| Type | Date | Place | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| death | 28. December 2005 | Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey, USA
Find persons in this place |
|
| birth | 24. March 1921 | New York City
Find persons in this place |
|
| marriage | |||
| marriage |
??spouses-and-children_en_US??
| Marriage | ??spouse_en_US?? | Children |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Genevieve BRADY |
|
|
|
Kathleen Joan TROAST |
|
Notes for this person
He was born in New York City in 1921 and died in Mendham, New Jersey in2005. After the death of his father when he was six years old, his mother moved with her two sons to Aiken, South Carolina.
The family spent their summers in Mendham, site of the Pitney family farm. His early schooling was at Aiken Preparatory School for boys, followed by five years at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. His days at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1943, were compressed intothree and a half years due to the onset of World War II. Following hiswartime service in India flying aviation gasoline into China, he attended classes at the Art Students League in New York City, New York. For the next following thirty years, he painted in oils, solely for pleasure.
11th generation of Pitneys to live in the nine-bedroom house since it was bought in the 1720s by James Pitney.
Sources
| 1 | The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants, Gary Boyd Roberts, 2022. |
files
| Title | Noblesse européenne - European nobility |
| Description | |
| Id | 65643 |
| Upload date | 2025-05-30 16:03:17.0 |
| Submitter |
Henri Frebault
visit the user's profile page
|
| frebault@telefonica.net | |
| ??show-persons-in-database_en_US?? | |
Download
The submitter does not allow this file to be downloaded.