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Henry Lane Eno was born in New York City on July 8, 1871; he died at
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, Somerset, on September 28, 1928. 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 York. Eno, a member of the circle of
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, built the Fifth Avenue Building on the site of his grandfather's
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facing Madison Square; an unpaid researcher at
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with the courtesy title of "Professor", he was better known as a psychologist, author and poet. Having graduated from
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in 1894, and gaining an L.L.B. from Columbia (though he never practiced), in 1898 he married his first wife Edith Marie Labouisse. On the death of his father in 1914, Eno 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
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, for decades New York's grandest and most fashionable, the engine of the Eno fortune, founded in textile merchandising;
Amos Eno Amos Richards Eno (November 1, 1810 – February 21, 1898) was an American real estate investor and capitalist in New York City. He built the Fifth Avenue Hotel and many other developments on the streets of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, where he est ...
was a founder of the
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. The nephew claimed he needed the money for the education of his children, Amos and Alice. 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. His daughter, Juliet (later Princess Alexei Melikoff) was born there in 1925. 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.


Works by Henry Lane Eno

*''Activism, an essay in philosophy'' (1920) Activism.
Accessed November 8, 2009 *''The Baglioni'', a verse play in five acts (1905). *''The Wanderer'', an extended poem (1921)


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Amos Eno House The Amos Eno House, also known as the Simsbury 1820 House, is a historic home at 731 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury, Connecticut. Prior to Amos Eno The house was built in 1822 by Elisha Phelps, who was given the land by his father, Noah. Noah ...


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