Tag: Spencer Trask

• The Shadows We Leave

  What a strange mix of altruistic and puritanical compulsion. Spencer Trask made his fortune on Wall Street betting on the future–the future of transportation (railroads), news (he saved the New York Times from bankruptcy) and light (he invested heavily in Thomas Edison’s works). Yet the idea of gamblers roaming the streets of Saratoga Springs in…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 24, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, United States History

  19th century mansion, 2014 Yaddo Tour, Art, casinos, Gambling, Gilded Age, life and death, philanthropic rich people, Robber Barons, sin, Spencer Trask, Yaddo

• A Case For Yaddo/ A Gift From The Trasks

  Adrienne Morris

  July 26, 2014

  inspirational, Men, Moving Pictures, Uncategorized, United States History, Writing

  Art, artists retreat, katrina Trask, Saratoga, Spencer Trask, Yaddo

• Death in Brooklyn

  So here’s how prominent Wall Street financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina  lost their children: Alanson, their first son died in Brooklyn at the age of five of meningitis where first come the fevers,  then the chills and mental changes. Five years is a pretty long time to get used to someone and really…

  Adrienne Morris

  July 25, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, United States History, Women

  19th century, Art, Books, money, Poetry, power, Spencer Trask, tragedy, tragic deaths of children, Writing