A&P heir Huntington Hartford, 97
Posted: Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 8:11 amApril 18, 1911 - May 19, 2008
Sybaritic heir to a grocery business fortune who squandered millions on doomed projects and was rescued from squalor
Huntington Hartford began life as one of the richest men in America but he wanted to be remembered for more than his money. In this he succeeded only insofar as he became celebrated for the ways he lost it — an extravagantly glamorous life with the stars of Hollywood’s golden age, a disastrous investment in the Bahamas and a much mocked attempt, through his own magazine and museum, to establish himself as a leader of the American art world.
George Huntington Hartford II was named after his grandfather, who co-founded the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co in 1869. By the time of Hartford’s birth in 1911, A&P was one of the most successful retailers in America. … Read full obituary
