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 established a prominent family fortune of 20 to 40 million U.S. dollars.

Personal life Amos Richards Eno – on January 14, 1835, in Simsbury, Connecticut – married Lucy Jane Phelps (maiden; 1818–1882), daughter of Elisha Phelps (1779–1847). Their children included: Amos F. Eno (1836–1915); never married and left his entire estate to Columbia University Mary Jane Eno (1838–1914); married to James Wallace Pinchot (1831–1908); whose children included:

Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946); Amos Pinchot (1873–1944), an American reformist, a mainstay and the historian of the Progressive Party, 1912–1916; he married, in 1900, Gertrude Minturn (1872–1939), daughter of shipping magnate, Robert Bowne Minturn Jr. (1836–1889); Amos Pinchot divorced Gertrude in 1918; their daughter, Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938), an actress, shocked the world when she committed suicide; Rosamond had been married to William Alexander "Big Bill" Gaston (1896–1970), a grandson of William Gaston (1820–1894), the 29th Governor of Massachusetts; Antoinette Eno Pinchot (1869–1934); married to Alan Johnstone (1858–1932); whose son was:

Harcourt Johnstone (1895–1945)

William Phelps Eno (1858–1945), the father of road safety in America; Henry Clay Eno (1840–1914), father of Henry Lane Eno (1871–1928); John Chester Eno (1848–1914), who, in 1879, got caught in a scandal by embezzling about 4 million US dollars from the Second National Bank of New York, of which he was president, causing a run on the bank, all of which was covered by his father, Amos, Isaac Noah Phelps, and William Walter Phelps;