DeLancey Astor Kane

DeLancey Astor Kane (August 28, 1844 – April 4, 1915) was an American soldier and horseman who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.

[1] His paternal lineage descended from John O'Kane who emigrated to the country in 1752 from County Londonderry and Antrim, Ireland.

Their summer cottage, Beach Cliffe, designed by Detlef Lienau, was one of the earliest Newport houses "to attain a sort of Beaux-Arts purity.

Following his service in the United States Army, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, in England and in 1873, graduated from Columbia Law School.

In 1901, Kane and his wife purchased the former home of Arthur Astor Carey[b] in Newport for $100,000 where he became a permanent resident.