DeLancey Astor Kane (1844-1915)

He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1868) and served for two years as a Lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Cavalry from 1868 to 1870. After military service, he continued his education in England at Trinity College, Cambridge, before returning home and graduating from Columbia Law School (1873). He retired with the rank of Colonel.

He is often referred to as the 'Father of American Coaching' having imported the first private four-in-hand coach from England to America. In 1876, he and Colonel William Jay co-founded The Coaching Club of New York and the Tally-Ho coach ran for about twenty years from the Hotel Brunswick in Madison Square to New Rochelle. His widow presented it to the Museum of the City of New York in 1933. He married Eleanora, the eldest daughter of Adrian Iselin, Merchant Banker. They lived between their townhouse on Broadway; The Paddocks in New Rochelle; and, Oakwood, Newport, the former home of Arthur Astor Carey at Narragansett Avenue and Spring Street where they settled permanently from 1901. He served twice as an Alderman for Newport and had one son. He divided the bulk of his $10-million fortune between various relatives before he died.