elite social clubs and was appointed treasurer of the New York Yacht Club. In addition to her son from her first marriage, Samuel Stevens Sands IV (1911–1976), Richard and Gertrude were the parents of two daughters together: Nancy Whitney (1917–2012), who married Henry Averell Gerry (1914–2000), a son of Robert Livingston Gerry Sr. and brother of Elbridge T. Gerry Sr. and Robert L. Gerry Jr. Alice Whitney (1919–2015), who married Screven Lorillard (1909–1979), a son of Ernest E. Lorillard and Elizabeth King (née Screven) Lorillard. Lorillard was previously married to Natica Blair, a granddaughter of DeWitt Clinton Blair. Their New York City town home, New Jersey farm, and property were auctioned off. After his fall from grace, his wife and family stood by him, and friend May Kinnicutt and her husband, G. Hermann Kinnicutt, a partner in a stock brokerage firm, provided Mrs. Whitney with a farmhouse to live in at Far Hills, New Jersey. George Whitney eventually made restitution for all the money his brother owed. Banned from dealing in securities for life, he was living a quiet life in Far Hills, New Jersey, at the time of his death on December 5, 1974. In popular culture Louis Auchincloss wrote a novel based on his life entitled The Embezzler. References External links 1888 births 1974 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American businesspeople convicted of crimes American money managers American white-collar criminals businesspeople from Boston criminals from Massachusetts Groton School alumni Harvard University alumni inmates of Sing Sing members of the New York Yacht Club people from Far Hills, New Jersey presidents of the New York Stock Exchange