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Joan Irvine Smith
Athalie Anita Irvine, known as Joan Irvine Smith (1 July 1933 – 19 December 2019), was an American philanthropist, arts patron, horse trainer and heiress to the Irvine family fortune from their California ranch. Biography Born as Athalie Anita Irvine, she was the only child of James Harvey Irvine, Jr. and Athalie Richardson. Her father died when she was 2 years old, and her grandfather, James Irvine II, died in 1947 and she inherited a minority share of the Irvine Company. She lived in Beverly Hills with her mother and her second husband after she remarried in 1938. Her mother married again in 1944 to Judge Thurmond Clarke. She studied at Westridge School, a private girls school in Pasadena, later dropping out from Marymount College and also attended UC Berkeley for one year. In 1952 she married Charles Swinden in Rancho San Joaquin, with the ceremony being officiated by her stepfather, Judge Thurmond Clarke. They had a son together, James Irvine Swinden, born in 1953. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irvine Family Of California
The Irvine family of Southern California is a prominent Californian family of real estate developers. Through the Irvine Company, the family played an important role in the development of Orange County, California, Orange County. The city of Irvine, California, Irvine and the University of California, Irvine take their name from the family. James Irvine I James Irvine (1827–1886) was born in County Down, Ireland on December 27, 1827, the second to the youngest of nine children. When Great Famine (Ireland), Ireland's potato crop failed in 1845, James Irvine and his younger brother William were among those who left for the United States. The family name is Scottish, meaning that James would have been an Ulster Scots people, Ulster Scot, or Scotch-Irish American, Scots-Irish. Irvine worked for two years in New York City. In 1848 Irvine went to join the California Gold Rush as a merchant and miner. In 1854, he purchased an interest in a San Francisco commission house on Front Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |