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I particularly appreciate the many helpful insights David Parsons has shared with me about his great-grandfather’s personal and family life in New York City, Rye and Lenox. Cornelia (“Nini”) Gilder has played an equally valuable role in helping me discover aspects of Lenox and the Berkshires that were so important to Parsons and his family, and Suky Werman has added to my appreciation of Parsons’s love of that area.

I am grateful to numerous individuals, who helped me uncover details about significant aspects of Parsons’s multi-faceted career, especially Jeffrey Januzzo and Professor Daniel Sharfstein for their suggestions about law practice and legal history; Harry Havemeyer for his personal account of his grandfather, Henry O. Havemeyer (the driving force behind the Sugar Trust); Professor Peter Buckley and Carol Saloman for the history of Cooper Union; Dr. William Schneider and Kathleen Brennan for the early years of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as Dr. Lawrence Koblenz for his research on the history of cancer treatment.

Through access to the Parsons’s papers in the archives of the Rye Historical Society, Sheri Jordan (Executive Director) and her staff have provided me with the primary source materials that are so important for any historian, amateur or professional. Suzanne Clary, president of the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, contributed to my understanding of life in Westchester County during the Gilded Age, when the Jay and Parsons families were next-door neighbors.

My thanks go also to my fellow author, Robert Pennoyer, for introducing me to David Wilk, who has guided me through the editing and publishing process with professional skill and unfailing good cheer.