Marion Hamilton MacMillan Pictet (October 17, 1932 - August 30, 2009) was an American heiress.Brian Solomon
The Secretive Cargill Billionaires And Their Family Tree
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'', 9/22/2011 She was a great-granddaughter of

William Wallace Cargill William Wallace Cargill (December 15, 1844 – October 17, 1909) was an American businessman. In 1865, he founded Cargill, which by 2008 was the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue, employing over 150, ...

, the founder of

Cargill Cargill, Incorporated, is a privately held American global food corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware. Founded in 1865, it is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in ter ...

. Her father was

John H. MacMillan John Hugh MacMillan Jr. (1895 – December 23, 1960) was an American businessman, president of Cargill from 1936 to 1960. Early life He was born in Texas in 1895, the son of John H. MacMillan Sr. and Edna Clara Cargill, the daughter of William Wal ...

She had two brothers

John Hugh MacMillan John Hugh Macmillan III (February 28, 1928 - April 23, 2008) was an American billionaire businessman. Early life He was born on February 28, 1928, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of John H. Macmillan Jr. and Marion Dickson, and grew up in Wa ...

and

Whitney Duncan MacMillan William Duncan MacMillan (July 5, 1930 - October 31, 2006) was an American businessman, a director of Cargill. He is not to be confused with Whitney MacMillan, William's first cousin, born in 1929. Early life He was born on July 5, 1930, the so ...

. She lived in

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, and she was divorced. In 2010, her estate was estimated to be worth approximately US$4.5 billion. She died in

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in August 2009. Her only daughter,

Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (born 1961/62) is an American billionaire heiress and equestrian.Juli WeinerAmerica’s Poor: Mitt Romney Does Not Make Forbes 400 List '' Vanity Fair'', September 19, 2012 Biography Early life She is a great-great-grand ...

, is an equestrian.

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