Henry Eno

Background

A member of the Eno real estate and banking family, he was the son of Henry Clay Eno and his wife Cornelia, the daughter of George W. Lane of New New York

Education

Having graduated from Yale College in 1894, and gaining an Bachelor of Laws from Columbia (though he never practiced), in 1898 he married his first wife Edith Marie Labouisse.

Career

Eno was the principal donor of Princeton"s Eno Hall. Completed in 1924, it was described at the time as "The first laboratory in this country, if not in the world, dedicated solely to the teaching and investigation of scientific psychology."

Eno"s wife died in February 1922 at Princeton. In September 1923, he remarried in England, and settled there with his much younger English wife, Flora Napier.

The couple rented one of England"s finest Elizabethan mansions, Montacute House in Somerset.

Eno"s widow Flora married, on August 1, 1931, (Ernest) Rupert Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, son of the 1st Baron Redesdale, and became the mother of the 5th Baron Redesdale. She died on December 20, 1981.

Achievements

• On the death of his father in 1914, Enos inherited a fortune estimated at over $15,000,000. This was considerably increased when in 1919, he successfully contested the $10 million will of his unmarried uncle, Amos F. Eno, a son of the builder and owner of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, for decades New York"s grandest and most fashionable, the engine of the Eno fortune, originally founded in textile merchandising. Amos Eno was a founder of the Second National Bank of New New York