individuals. The majority went to a trust he had established in 1952 and to Arvida (from ARthur VIning DAvis), a northern Quebec model town he had founded in 1927 for working families. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations provide financial assistance to educational, religious, cultural, and scientific institutions, and are regular PBS donors. References Resources "Arthur Vining Davis". Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 7: 1961–1965. American Council of Learned Societies, 1981. * McGoun, William E., Southeast Florida Pioneers: The Palm and Treasure Coasts, 1998, Sarasota: Pineapple Press, Chapter 27. Compares the lives of Arthur Vining Davis and John D. MacArthur, another heavy investor in Florida real estate. 1867 births 1962 deaths American manufacturing businesspeople Amherst College alumni American philanthropists People from Sharon, Massachusetts Alcoa people Roxbury Latin School alumni Burials at Locust Valley Cemetery