John Innes Kane

John Innes Kane (July 29, 1850 – February 1, 1913)[1] was an American explorer, scientist and philanthropist who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age.

[6][7] The family lived at "Beach Cliffe", designed by Detlef Lienau, which was one of the earliest Newport cottages "to attain a sort of Beaux-Arts purity.

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

[3] Kane inherited from his mother's family,[10] so he never took an active part in business, "but had always taken a keen interest in scientific matters, in particular those dealing with discovery and exploration.

[1] He was buried in a memorial tomb, also designed by McKim, Mead & White, at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

[23] His widow died in July 1926,[24] and left $4,000,00 to New York City charities, including $1,000,000 to the Home for Incurables and $1,000,000 to Columbia University (of which her father had been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees[25]).

[27][28][29][30][31][32][33] After years of renting houses in Lenox, Massachusetts,[11] they acquired a summer estate on a bluff overlooking Frenchman Bay located at 45 Hancock Street in Bar Harbor, Maine.