William Collins Whitney person
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Claims (31)
William Collins Whitney member_of
Whitney family host_asserted
“Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 23:49
Grover Cleveland appointed
William Collins Whitney documented
“Runs for president in 1885, and Whitney helps him out quite a bit. He likes Grover Cleveland. So much so that Cleveland names him the Secretary of the Navy from 1885 to, like, for the whole first term to, like, 1889. And again, that's about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 34:53
William Collins Whitney founded
National War College host_asserted
“Yeah, it really was. What's funny is he had no military background. What he did have is a brother who was in the steamship business. Correct. So what's he do as Secretary of the Navy? He did a lot to develop what then was the modern Navy. H…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 35:46
William Collins Whitney parent_of
Oliver Whitney documented
“means that he has all of the business intel before everybody else does. Yes, that's the whole point. Right. So William Collins Whitney had two more children. One was an Oliver Whitney, born in 1878, died at the age of five. So it didn't rea…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:04:47
William Collins Whitney parent_of
Dorothy Payne Whitney documented
“means that he has all of the business intel before everybody else does. Yes, that's the whole point. Right. So William Collins Whitney had two more children. One was an Oliver Whitney, born in 1878, died at the age of five. So it didn't rea…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:04:47
Cornelius Vanderbilt Starr descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“Because we're not done. This story is never over with the Whitney's. So here's what Grok told us, in no particular order. We had Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney II, the great-grandson, son of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Mary Louise Schro…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:05:55
Nancy Whitney Marie Leeds Wynkoop descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“His notability, he's a businessman, philanthropist. They're all philanthropists because they care so much about everyone else. He's involved in the Thoroughbred Horse Racing, and the Whitney Stable is very famous for breeding some of the gr…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:06:28
Pauline Susan Leeds descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“Great-granddaughter and daughter of Olive Lady Bally and Sir Adrian Bally. Apparently there's a Sir there, so I guess that's British. Yes. Apparently it is because it's a philanthropist, supports Leeds Castle Foundation, continues family le…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:07:37
William Whitney Elmhurst descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“There's that name again. Grandson and son of Dorothy Payne Whitney and Leonard Knight Elmhurst. Associated with the Darlington Hall Trust. Supports arts, education, and sustainability. Oh, and we're going to look at the Darlington Hall Trus…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:08:09
David Michael Strait descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“There's that name again. Grandson and son of Dorothy Payne Whitney and Leonard Knight Elmhurst. Associated with the Darlington Hall Trust. Supports arts, education, and sustainability. Oh, and we're going to look at the Darlington Hall Trus…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:08:09
Susan Strait descendant_of
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“Which means they're related to the Kennedys. Yes. There's a mic drop. Wow. Likely involved in Arts and Family Trust, ties to the Kennedy family through their mother. Susan Strait was a granddaughter, daughter of Michael Whitney Strait and N…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 1:08:41
William Collins Whitney member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“But he is not alone. And this is William Collins Whitney. Good looking guy. Looks like he's wearing some monocles or something. So let's talk about William Collins. Born in 1841. Lived until 1904. So 63 years of a good life, I suppose. And …”
▶ The Shadow State 20 Secret Societies 4; Skull & Bones 1837-1888 @ 23:06
William Collins Whitney member_of
Skull and Bones host_asserted
“She's well known because she would marry a guy by the name of Henry F. DeMock. And DeMock was a Skull and Bonesman, class of 1863. Same year that Susan Collins Whitney's brother, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, was also…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 21:32
William Collins Whitney covered_up
Tammany Hall host_asserted
“where he codified laws and successfully contested about $20 million in claims from the boss tweed regime. He was part of taking down the tweeds. That's interesting. Uh-huh. Because other people in the family were involved in the tweeds too.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 31:11
William Collins Whitney relationship_with
John Hay Whitney host_asserted
“And they loved their Mets because they were not an American League team. Baseball. Their other child was a guy by the name of John Hay Whitney. Got the Hay name, got the Whitney name, right? Yep. So he's probably, well, let's see, where do …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 1:01:46
William Collins Whitney overbilled_or_diverted
United States Navy host_asserted
“And there's some eyebrows raised at the time all got swept under the rung. Cleveland would make sure no scandal ever hit his buddy, Whitney. So he'd receive, this is documented decades later, but apparently he received over $500,000, which …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 36:27
William Collins Whitney funded
United States Navy host_asserted
“linchpin to power back in those days. Yeah, it really was. What's funny is he had no military background. What he did have is a brother who was in a steamship business. Correct. So what's he do as Secretary of the Navy? He did a lot to deve…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 35:24
Grover Cleveland covered_up
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“And there's some eyebrows raised at the time all got swept under the rung. Cleveland would make sure no scandal ever hit his buddy, Whitney. So he'd receive, this is documented decades later, but apparently he received over $500,000, which …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 36:27
William Collins Whitney relationship_with
Dorothy Payne Whitney host_asserted
“means that he has all of the business intel before everybody else does. Yes, that's the whole point. Right. So William Collins Whitney had two more children. One was an Oliver Whitney, born in 1878, died at the age of five. So it didn't rea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 1:04:28
Grover Cleveland appointed
William Collins Whitney host_asserted
“So much so that Cleveland names him the Secretary of the Navy from 1885 to like for the whole first term to like 1889. And again, that's about control. And you notice that like FDR and many of these people all end up is either the Secretary…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 35:17
William Collins Whitney headed
Metropolitan Street Railway Company host_asserted
“Street cars, automobile, Ford Foundation, and airplanes. Yes. They've monopolized transportation. Yes. Starting with the shipping, which is where we started today. Yeah. And we're not done with that by a long shot. So Whitney, William Colli…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 34:11
William Collins Whitney married
Henry F. Dimock host_asserted
“Secretary of the Navy. His brother, a guy named Henry Melville Whitney, not a bonesman, happened to be the president of a company called Metropolitan Steamship Company, and then he was the founder of Dominion Iron and Steel Company. Guess w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 3 @ 28:32
William Collins Whitney married
Henry F. Dimock host_asserted
“She's well known because she would marry a guy by the name of Henry F. DeMock. And DeMock was a Skull and Bonesman, class of 1863. Same year that Susan Collins Whitney's brother, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, was also…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 21:32
William Collins Whitney founded
New York Loan and Improvement Company host_asserted
“Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 23:49
William Collins Whitney founded
Dominion Coal Company host_asserted
“minority or somewhat majority stakes in multiple businesses. And they played the long game. They planned for dynasty building, probably better than any family in American history. 1893, he helps form something called Dominion Coal Company w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 26:54
William Collins Whitney married
Flora Payne Whitney host_asserted
“Harvard. Of course. 1869, he marries a woman by the name of Flora Payne. Think she's connected? She has to be. Of course. She's the daughter of Ohio Senator Henry B. Payne, who was close friends with presidential candidate Stephen Douglas, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 28:50
William Collins Whitney married
Sybil Edith Randolph host_asserted
“of William Collins Whitney got by the name of Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, who would go on to become the treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of the Rockefellers. Oh my gosh. You knew they had to come in somewhere. So she dies in 1893 at t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 29:31
William Collins Whitney founded
Young Men's Democratic Club host_asserted
“So William Collins Whitney then moves to New York City and found, okay, this is 1871, going back a bit. He would found something in New York called the Young Men's Democratic Club. That was the real big opponents of the Tweed Ring, the Boss…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 30:41
William Collins Whitney did_business_with
Russell and Company host_asserted
“Remember why we mentioned his name early on? No. He's the co-founder of Skull and Bones, 1834. Oh, that's right. Yeah. So Russell, whose family made their money as pirates, who was seeking discreet partners to avoid political scrutiny, so t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 38:53
William Collins Whitney relationship_with
Oliver Whitney host_asserted
“means that he has all of the business intel before everybody else does. Yes, that's the whole point. Right. So William Collins Whitney had two more children. One was an Oliver Whitney, born in 1878, died at the age of five. So it didn't rea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies @ 1:04:28
William Collins Whitney laundered_money_for
Russell and Company host_asserted
“So Russell, whose family made their money as pirates, who was seeking discreet partners to avoid political scrutiny, so they hook up with the unsinkable Whitney family. And that's how those two teamed up, through skull and bones and through…”
▶ The Shadow State 46 Secret Societies 29 The Whitney Lineage @ 39:21
Mentions (38)
▶ 22:44
That's the Whitney family, but they go back a long ways. Let me give you a quick look at the one I'm going to focus on here is William Collins Whitney, but he is not alone. And this is William Collins Whitney. Good looking guy. Looks like h…
▶ 23:17
He was known as a political leader and a financier, ran a lot of the Whitney family businesses. Well, since nobody really knows who the Whitney's are, they probably do know who the businesses are. Anyone on Wall Street knows who J.H. Whitne…
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Transport, CAT, Air America, and all of the things that came after that, Evergreen, just to name a few of them. But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded t…
▶ 28:43
Dominion Iron and Steel Company. Guess who got the contracts to build the Navy ships? Dominion? That's interesting. All right, here's what gets fun. He's got a sister named Susan Collins Whitney. She's obviously not a Bonesman, but she marr…
▶ 22:37
One of the most famous Whitney's, of course, is Eli Whitney, who invented the cotton gin, which is what you alluded to with the Civil War. When the cotton gin was invented, it made it so they could pick cotton about 50 times or process cott…
▶ 23:06
But he is not alone. And this is William Collins Whitney. Good looking guy. Looks like he's wearing some monocles or something. So let's talk about William Collins. Born in 1841. Lived until 1904. So 63 years of a good life, I suppose. And …
▶ 25:41
But they were all modeled exclusively off of the covert side of Pan Am. Excellent. And this is the Whitney family that founded that. You have to make the assumption they kind of knew what was going on. Yeah, I would make the assumption they…
▶ 28:48
secretary of the navy his brother guy named henry melville whitney not a bonesman uh happened to be the president of a company called metropolitan steamship company and then he was the founder of dominion iron and steel company guess who go…
▶ 29:20
who is a bonesman from 1863. Keep it in the family, right? Right. Susan Collins, huh? That name rings a bell. I think they got any relation to the senator? Who knows? You may want to look into that. They love naming rights like that. It's c…
▶ 3:25
draw its borders, fund its wars, and even sculpt its culture. The Whitney's weren't just rich, they were royalty in everything but name. From William Collins Whitney, a cunning lawyer who transformed street art into a 700 million dollar emp…
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We had a William Whitney from Broome County, New York, recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as ancestor number A125404. We had a Moses Whitney, served in Colonel Edmund Finney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775, and he has do…
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that the central bankers and the new york bankers used as then cited as a need for the federal reserve system charles t barney yeah that's crazy uh-huh you know what charles t barney does i've shot himself he lost everything so that's the f…
▶ 21:50
because she would marry a guy by the name of Henry F. DeMock. And DeMock was a Skull and Bonesman, class of 1863. Same year that Susan Collins Whitney's brother, William Collins Whitney, who's a star of the show, he was also a Bonesman in 1…
▶ 21:50
because she would marry a guy by the name of Henry F. DeMock. And DeMock was a Skull and Bonesman, class of 1863. Same year that Susan Collins Whitney's brother, William Collins Whitney, who's a star of the show, he was also a Bonesman in 1…
▶ 23:29
married into the Whitney family, the scandal-free Whitney family that nobody knows about. And there were tons of accusations of corruption that all got swept under the rug. It's a familiar pattern. These are supposed to be the pure and prop…
▶ 24:06
Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…
▶ 27:15
And they played the long game. They planned for dynasty building. Probably better than any family in American history. 1893, he helps form something called Dominion Coal Company with his brother, William Whitney, DeMock, who we just talked …
▶ 27:49
It's getting a little incestuous, isn't it? Yes. They also founded something called the New England Gas and Coke Company. That's not Coca-Cola. That's not cocaine. Coke is some kind of a mining ore or something like that. But they did reall…
▶ 28:34
Here he is. William Collins Whitney. This is the guy who turned them into a wealthy family, into a dynasty, and died with a very squeaky clean reputation, which we'll get into. So he's born in 1841 in Conway, Mass., educated at Williston Se…
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In 1869, he marries a woman by the name of Flora Payne. Do you think she's connected? She has to be. Of course. She's the daughter of Ohio Senator Henry B. Payne, who was close friends with presidential candidate Stephen Douglas, who was Ab…
▶ 29:48
of William Collins Whitney got by the name of Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, who would go on to become the treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of the Rockefellers. Oh my gosh. You knew they had to come in somewhere. So she dies in 1893 at t…
▶ 30:58
So William Collins Whitney then moves to New York City and founds, okay, this is 1871, going back a bit. He would found something in New York called the Young Men's Democratic Club. That was the real big opponents of the Tweed Ring, the Bos…
▶ 31:28
where he codified laws and successfully contested about $20 million in claims from the boss tweed regime. He was part of taking down the tweeds. That's interesting. Uh-huh. Because other people in the family were involved in the tweeds too.…
▶ 34:11
Street cars, automobile, Ford Foundation, and airplanes. Yes. They've monopolized transportation. Yes. Starting with the shipping, which is where we started today. Yeah. And we're not done with that by a long shot. So Whitney, William Colli…
▶ 34:43
Basically, he had a monopoly on all movement in New York City. In the Gilded Age, when New York City is exploding in wealth because of the Robert Barons. So we fast forward to 1885, and we'll go back and forth in the time frame because we h…
▶ 35:17
So much so that Cleveland names him the Secretary of the Navy from 1885 to like for the whole first term to like 1889. And again, that's about control. And you notice that like FDR and many of these people all end up is either the Secretary…
▶ 35:46
Yeah, it really was. What's funny is he had no military background. What he did have is a brother who was in the steamship business. Correct. So what's he do as Secretary of the Navy? He did a lot to develop what then was the modern Navy. H…
▶ 36:19
And it built things like the battleship Maine just in time for the Spanish-American War in 1898. Imagine that. What incredible timing. That'll come back. Pretty much we're talking about the guy who invented the military-industrial complex. …
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This is documented decades later, but apparently he received over $500,000, which would be $17 million today in kickbacks. So contractors for the Navy, people he all knew through his brother in the steamship business, would submit inflated …
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Historians would later call it one of the most efficient systems of institutional graft in U.S. naval history. Example would be the shipyards, and there's a bunch of them there at the time. The ones that were associated with Whitney got thr…
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All right, let's talk about the shipping business, shall we? Yes. Well, let's talk about opium. So the Metropolitan Steamship Company had the best ships in the world. They were sleek and fast. They could outpace competitors and they could e…
▶ 39:21
So Russell, whose family made their money as pirates, who was seeking discreet partners to avoid political scrutiny, so they hook up with the unsinkable Whitney family. And that's how those two teamed up, through skull and bones and through…
▶ 40:27
brought over from China could get you more than 1,600 to 2,000% profit. So this is big business. Where it gets interesting is Russell gets out of the shipping business in 1891, takes his money and goes home. That exact same year, Whitney di…
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They have zero records for 20 years. They're just gone. I'd also like to point out, you know, his brother's running the operation, but he's a cabinet member of the Secretary of the Navy. You think he's got access to naval intel? Absolutely.…
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I've got another child of William Collins Whitney by the name of Pauline Payne Whitney. We've heard the Payne family before. Yep. She's born in 1874. She marries somebody by the name of Almeric Hugh Paget, who we mentioned earlier got invol…
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The canal benefits the shipping industry that we just told you the Whitney's are all over. And who owns the steamships? Oops. I'll take it a step further. Remember when we annexed Panama from Columbia? Annexed it? Or did we steal it from Co…
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means that he has all of the business intel before everybody else does. Yes, that's the whole point. Right. So William Collins Whitney had two more children. One was an Oliver Whitney, born in 1878, died at the age of five. So it didn't rea…
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Remember the name straight for a little bit, okay? Right. I don't know if they divorced or he died, but she would later marry someone named Leonard Knight Elmhurst, and the Elmhursts are not insignificant. So that's pretty much the famous W…