Raymond Pitcairn (1885 – July 12, 1966), son of

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founder

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, was a lawyer, a businessman, a collector of ancient and medieval art, and an amateur architect. He supervised the building of the

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, his own castle-mansion of Glencairn, and the "Zeus of the Catskills" Glen Tonche. Pitcairn was also quite politically active. A Republican, he served as one of the delegates to Pennsylvania's convention to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933, and was one of Pennsylvania's delegates to the

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. He was also the national chairman and a major financial supporter of the

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, which opposed the expansion of federal regulation and the

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. Pitcairn died on July 12, 1966, and was buried at Bryn Athyn Cemetery, in

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