ceo@graciestrother.com 340 Royal Poinciana Way #328-161 Palm Beach, FL 3348
Preserving Generational Wealth
Generating Generational Wealth
Foreign Dynasty Trusts, SFO/MFO
(Иностранные династи ческие траст
About Gracie Strother & Co. Family Office, Ltd.
About
- Gracie Strother & Co. Family Office, Ltd. manages family generational wealth transferred from generation to generation since the founding in North America of the New Netherlands Trading Company in 1619, in Beverwijck, Novi Belgii, now known as Albany, New York. It also advises only select ultra wealthy international clientele on U.S. Dynasty Trusts, innovative investment technologies, and related international tax laws.
Our Early History/Novi Belgii-New Amsterdam/New York City
Maps of our New World 1619, 1646, 1776, 1803, 1847, 2026
Mexican American War-1847
New World Ventures completed successfully by Gracie Strother
HISTORY OF COMPANIES BUILT IN AMERICAS BY ANCESTORS OF STROTHER
1. New Netherlands Trading Company (1614-1674)
Leiden, Holland, - Beverwyck, New Belgium (Albany, NY)
New World Shipping and Trading, Fur
Cornelius Volkertson Viele
2. Viele Land Company (1638-1899)
New Belgium, New Netherlands, New Amsterdam (New York City)
Land Accumulation and Grants, Indian Translation, Fur trade, Engineering
Viele Generations, Arnaut Viele- Egbert Luduvicius Viele, Brigadier General, Union, Built Central Park, NYC
3. Knickerbocker Ice Company (1753-1854)
New Belgium, Schaghticoke, New York State, USA
Ice Harvesting, Refrigeration
Knickerbocker-Viele clan
4. Archibald Gracie & Sons, East India Merchants (1784-1829)
New York City, USA
Cotton, Tea, New York Tontine Coffee house (NYSE), Saturday Evening Post,
Bank of New York
Archibald Gracie, Sr.
Great Grandson, Col. Archibald Gracie IV was the last survivor of the Titanic.
5. Francis Griffin, Esq.- Bank of New York (1829-1863)
New York City, USA
Bank of New York
Francis Grifffin
6. Rock Island Railroad (Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) (1852-1904)
Chicago, Midwest and South
Railroad
Charles Keating Tuckerman, first U.S. Ambassador to Greece
son: Fleming Tuckerman
7. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Company (1854-1923)
Baltimore, MD
Banking and Financial Services (Mercantile Bancshares, now PNC)
T. Nelson Strother
8. Polaroid Corporation (1937-2001)
Boston, MA
Instant photography
F.B.Sterling Pile, Sr., IDC.
9. Northrop & Johnson Yachts (1949-1994)
Newport, RI, New York City, Cannes, France
Luxury Yacht Sales and Management
George F. B. Johnson, Jr.
10. Strother Film Partners II (1986-1992)
Beverly Hills, California
Distribution of Motion Picture Film “Big Easy”
Starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin (Columbia Pictures)
Richard Strother, Esq.
11. CTC Media (1992 -2006)
Moscow: Anchor Station
Network: Leningrad, Kiev + 300 Former USSR Cities
First publicly Traded Russian Television Network on NASDAQ
Richard Strother, Esq. (Marathon TV)
12. Kim Kardashian’s Fit In Your Jeans By Friday
Beverly Hills, California
Production and Distribution of Workout DVD Series: Fit In Your Jeans By Friday
Starring: Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Giraldi (Gaiam)
Richard Strother, Esq.
GRACIE STROTHER & Co. FAMILY OFFICE, Ltd. PROJECTS PAGE
CURRENT PROECTS NOW OPEN:
1.Nanotech Oil Solutions, LLC: Biodegradable Oil and Gas Well S
timulations and heavy oil diluent technology for Venezuela and heavy oil fields and for Utah's Uinta Tar Sands containing 35 billion barrels of oil.
Status: Technology Patented in USA, Canada, and 11 major oil producing countries (PC or PCT).
Field tested in Talara Oil Fields-presented: XI Ingepet, Lima, Peru-Oct.2025.
Funding: Open- US Accredited Investors-Open to International Funding Only-(S-1). $USD 200 million-S-1-----U.S. and Venezuela's Orinoco Belt-$100m; USA-Permian Basin and Uinta Basin and Tar Triangle in Utah $-100 million: Total $200 million. Expected EBITDA in year 3 -$894.39M.
AI Deck:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MNiPgZ1zK5ZaFSCCQOjKGCM9I5YSpd8S/view
Nanotech Oil Business Plan USA-Venezuela-p135-03-22-26.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fhgWbwV3pfNYC97l8DV3u4eYRjqeiAqX/view
Term Sheet and Note- 5yr secured 12% annually-20%convertible-payin-3 years
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qt7-unQO2oN4G_GWHfANFIJC8VzPwZpG/view?usp=drive_link
Contact information:
DAVOS 2026: Nanotech Oil's immediate solution for Venezuela's Orinoco Belt Very Heavy Oil and CITCO USA Refinery problems.
Nanotechnology Oil Solution’s Founder Richard Strother, Davos, Switzerland, 2026, on Green Oil technology as a solution to Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt Heavy Oil problems- Hosted by Altru Institute----
YALE INNOVATION SUMMIT-2026
Award-Nanotechnology Oil Solutions Technology Innovations of 2026
I am pleased to announce that Nanotech Oil Solution’s patented Advanced Oil Recovery AI- guided nanotechnology was showcased at the Yale Innovation Summit on May 27, 2026, at the Edward P. Evans Building at the Yale SOM in New Haven, CT, as top 2026 Innovation in technology.
This Yale event was the largest ever innovation event in the Northeast. This Showcase was the final public event for Nanotech. The journey starting with a second-place finish in March, 2025, as “Innovator of the Year” by Oil & Gas Middle East in Dubai, behind huge ADNOC, and ahead of Aramco.
Then came beta tests in the Talara Oil fields and a results presentation at the 11th INGEPET International Seminar on Hydrocarbons in Lima, Peru in October 2025. I was asked to present at Davos, Switzerland in January 2026 on how to monetize the Venezuela Orinoco Belt’s very heavy oil reserves, which constitute 25% of the World’s Oil reserves, as well as PDVSA’s related Citgo Refinery legal problems in USA. On March 31, 2026, Nanotech Oil Solution’s “green” carbon chain breaking applications were awarded first place “Sustainability Pioneer of the Year” by Oil & Gas Middle East in Dubai, ahead of ADNOC offshore, UAE’s State Oil Company. I was unable to attend the award ceremony due to incoming ballistic missiles and Iranian Shahed Kamikaze Drones.
The Yale Innovation Summit in New Haven, CT, the “pizza capital” of the world, was a more user friendly venue with Tesla’s autonomous self-driving car shuttle, and incoming spring cherry blossoms. This highly prestigious Yale Innovation Summit marked the end of a long journey that started in the Venezuela Orinoco Belt years ago and will now go back there to monetize the abandoned very heavy oil wells there. Then a pivot to unlock 35 billion barrels of low sulfur oil reserves hidden in the Uinta Tar basin in Utah, USA. There is seven times the heavy oil in the Alaska North Slope and is almost as big as the entire Permian Basin. And we have the only patented eco-friendly down-hole or well-head solution.
We are commencing a staged $75M-$75M -$50M SFO-MFO-Energy Fund Series A Round capital raise with a S-1 Registration to lease abandoned very heavy oil well clusters and deploy Truck in-truck out infrastructure-friendly scale up, then pivot this technology to Utah. The goal is to build a $2 billion yearend #3 valuation, per DCF and Possible-to Probable-to Proven Balance Sheet enhancements.
contact: ceo@graciestother.com.
- Update: Utah's Uinta Tar Basin field of 35 billion barrels of bitumen and very heavy crude: Nanotech Oil plans to use the same patented technology to enter Uinta Basin and Tar Sand Triangle in Utah containing 35 billion Barrels of untapped oil.
- NOTE: THIS TECHNOLOGY WAS DEVELOPED FOR ORINOCO BELT'S VAST RESERVES OF HEAVY SOUR CRUDES OF 9.5 TO 12 API. POSSIBILITY OF TECHNOLOGY QUICKLY CONVERTING SUCH HEAVY SOUR CRUDES INTO TRANSPORTABLE AND MARKETABLE (16 API) MEREY 16 CRUDE BEING EXAMINED. IT IS PATENTED IN VENEZUELA UNDER PARIS CONVENTION. THIS TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS FOR A RAPID REHABILITATION OF EXISTING HEAVY CRUDE WELLS, RAPID INCREASED PRODUCTION, MOBILITY, TRANSPORTATION AND OFF-TAKE INTO THE WORLD OIL MAREKETS BENEFITING VENEZUELA IN THE SHORT TERM:
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Venezuela's Goldmine:
https://youtu.be/s1WhiTummEo?si=Wi2RCBj9aewxUUX2
CONTACT INFORMATION:
www.graciestrother.com
ceo@graciestrother.com
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2. EVL by Biosculpture Technology, Inc:
- Biosculpture Technology, Inc. NOW OPEN-(CURE OBESITY EPIDEMIC AND DIABETES TYPE 2)
- The 'Paradigm Shift' in Metabolic Medicine: From Symptom Management to Source Removal
- Clinical Validation: Animal and Human MVL Trials 2021-2025 confirm massive rapid glycemic remission (HbA1c) and EGP suppression with massive permanent weight loss equal to or greater than GLP-1 receptor agonists.
- 70 second video https://youtu.be/5xC8pvNmMeI
AI Deck:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mc1KRadWnNISvi-5Irpe-mC1EgfzJzlR/view
The Reg. 506 $30 Million raise contains a link below for anyone to download a term sheet:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xLg0ZToX5lDIFY5qAdMbSvO5k7nZXHgR/view?usp=drive_link
REG D PRIVATE PLACEMENT MEMORANDUM:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zKoRSQVKPgCjO5R3nXtBlc9yCtRk11N6/view?usp=drive_link
This is a patented EVL Device to mechanically cure Diabetes Type 2 and Obesity in safe 2-hour outpatient procedure. First ever medical device for direct removal of toxic visceral intra-abdominal Fat using basic cosmetic surgical skills and standard operating theatres. This $10,000 procedure compliments and dovetails with GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy, for pre-operative patient queue and post operative cosmetic issues associated with GLP-1s. Medicare and insurance Reimbursement expected in less than 38 months. Obesity is a $2 trillion annual cost increasing dramatically. EVL or Endoscopic Visceral Lipectomy targets and eliminates this problem with a patented device and associated procedure. Status: Technology Patented in USA, Canada, predecessor device FDA approved, used by VA, and fully tested. Funding: USD $30 million Private Placement now available to Accredited Investors (506(c) for US and foreign investors-. Private Placement Memorandum available upon request. International Licensing available. Franchising under development.
www.biosculpturetech.com or www.graciestrother.com for contact information.
- BIOS-slide 1.pdf-EVL Device -$2 trillion mhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1zKoRSQVKPgCjO5R3nXtBlc9yCtRk11N6/view?usp=drive_linkarket for Obesity and Diabetes Type 2EVL Device -$2 trillion market for Obesity and Diabetes
- Type 2
- 📷Endoscopic Visceral Lipectomy V3
- 📷EVL Device-Rendering .jpg
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--------PROJECTS UNDERWAY BUT NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC------
KimKardashianFitness.com
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QyKjno9FmR_cQJtNoGzGcDS-XmbhDbat/view?usp=sharing
Nov 2025 – Present
Artificial Intelligence repurposing of proprietary content of Fit In Your Jeans By Friday 3 DVDs and 3 days of Source Media containing one Terabyte of domestically exploited proprietary and source media library content underway.
Target Goal: Undisclosed
Status: Closed to Public
Preview: www.kimkardashianfitness.com
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Golden Years Financial
Mar 2024 – Present
AI Driven Longevity Insurance-Anti Aging technologies
Status: Provisional Patent filed. Procurement of IP underway
Closed to Public
3 Pathways of Aging:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AAVgmqbMGog3gPBQWvPsDSVgsujM1rsS/view?usp=drive_link
Patent:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gmoojuCZNBMokWMjhcq1HkCGOM1MQgRk/view?usp=sharing
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COMPLETED PROJECTS (CLOSED)
- Co-Producer: Kim Kardashian’s Fit In Your Jeans By Friday
3 DVD Workout series
- Nov 2009 - 2014
- Status: Finished--Holding Library Rights and Proprietary Content
- FOUNDER-CTC Moscow, Anchor TV Station to CTC TV Network, 1st publicly traded Russian Media Company on NASDAQ (2006)
- Status: Finished and Exited
- Release of Movie "Big Easy" in 1986, attempted takeover of MGM Aug 1986 - May 1992
- Status: Finished and Exited
Oil and Gas: 2003, moved Iraq Oil and Gas Ministry from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan. Early Investor, LukeOil.
- Status: Closed
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TOTAL FUTURE PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT
- Golden Years Financial
- AI Driven Longevity Insurance-Anti Aging technologies
Status: Provisional Patent filed. Procurement of IP underway
Closed to Public - KimKardashianFitness.com
Artificial Intelligence repurposing of proprietary content of Fit In Your Jeans By Friday 3 DVDs and 3 days of Source Media containing one Terabyte of domestically exploited proprietary and source media library content underway.
Target Goal: Undisclosed
Status: Closed to Public
Image:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3kXuSDJxrTMMeuFHFzjxm_SmROSH8dm/view?usp=sharing
- Project Bob
- AI Driven Facebook business model copycat
Status: Design and IP protection underway
Closed to Public
- White Poster Prince: Tales of Brave Ulysses
- Quasi Memoir Book with Fractal mathematical discourse/physics theory made with hyperlinks and music soundtrack
Status: Published and Pulled down-Reformatting for Social Media Distribution
END OF PROJECTS SECTION
Curriculum Vitae of current CEO
Curriculum Vitae
Richard Tuckerman Strother, Esq.
P.O. Box 161
Palm Beach, FL 33480
561-772-7880
Academic Background
Pomfret School (full scholarship);
Bachelor of Arts-Political Science–UNH-Summa Cum Laude;
Bachelor of Arts (full scholarship)-Psychology–UNH-Magna Cum Laude;
Continuing Education:
Yale Law School J.D., Connecticut -1975-1978
(full scholarship);
Marc Fisher School of Technical Analysis-1989-New York;
Biophysics-Conical Fractals-Moscow- 1993-1994;
FinTech Certification-Oxford U-Said Business School-U.K.;
MBA- Finance/Accounting -Rinker Business School-Florida.
Scholarly Activities
–Magazine articles: Contributing Editor to Palm Beach Journal, 2000-2001.
“The True History of the America’s Cup”; “The Cagey Brits and the Swift Solent sink America’s Hopes”
- Books:1. White Poster Prince-Tales of Brave Ulysses (2020); Library of Congress LCCN: 2022916023 -www.whiteposterprince.com
2. The “Election Deniers” Guidebook To Redemption - Library of Congress LCCN:2023918924l · Dec 24, 2023 -www.captainrickesq.com
-Patents: Bio-Derived Complex For Oil and Gas Well Remediation: US 11,608,463B2
12 Patents Pending, 3 discontinued, including immediate electromagnetic cure for Covid-19.
Work History/ Experience/ Endeavors:
Real Estate/Tax Advantaged:
1980-1984-Worked on the acquisition of shopping centers, office buildings
and rental properties. (Richard Roberts Group).
1984-1985- Developed Condo-Hotel Syndication format involving non-recourse financing for resort hotels. Worked on the Marco Island Hilton syndication, Wilson World, Aspen Club Lodge. (Dowmar Securities, Merrill Lynch).
1985- Palm Court Hotel. Organized the Acquisition and Syndication. Put the Palm Court Hotel on National Register of Historic Places and gave the Mizner Façade to the Palm Beach Historical Society. Palm Beach, FL.(now the Chesterfield Hotel).(Strother Investment Co., Inc.).
Entertainment/ Media/Tax Advantaged:
1986-1990- developed film-financing arbitrage Joint Venture structure to take advantage of the Regan Tax-cuts (50%-35%-25%) involving the current payment of prints and advertising film distribution costs against future recoupment of ancillary rights such as VCR and pay television.
(a) J.V. with Vestron (later Carolco): “Rebel” .(Strother Film Partners I).
(b) J.V. with Kings Road/Columbia: “Big Easy”, “Hoosiers”(Strother Film Partners II).
(c) J.V. with Hemdale: “Platoon”, “Hoosiers”. (Strother Film Partners II).
(d) 1989-90: Involved with the unsuccessful attempted takeover of MGM by Giancarlo Paretti through financing provided by client, Australian-based Century Insurance, Ltd. (Strother Investment Co., Inc.).
(e) 1989-90- Involved in the acquisition of discounted bonds in the De Laurentis
Entertainment Group Bankruptcy proceeding. Involved in reading and valuation of licensing rights and library values. (Strother Investment Co., Inc.).
(f) 1992-2004- Purchased “Marathon TV” in Moscow (Channel 11). Licensed and refitted a 5 kilowatt transmitter on Ostankino Tower, and then sold majority interest in the Moscow Anchor Station to a network of 200+ regional TV stations in the former USSR, of which MGM-UA provided programming. The Anchor Station was renamed “CTC Moscow”, and later merged into CTC Media which went public on NASDAQ in 2006 (under the symbol “CTCM”). (Strother Investment Co., Inc.).
(g) 1992-1994-Unsuccessful in attempts to acquire “Novosti”, the Russian News Network. Worked with former US-Russian Ambassador Paul Nitze and Admiral Zumwalt in an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the exclusive rights to lay fiber-optic cable through the underground power grid of Moscow utility (OAO Unified Energy System of Russia). The rights were later acquired by the U.S.-based Andrews Group. (Strother Investment Co., Inc.).
(i) 2009-2014- Co-produced and was Managing Director of “Kim Kardashian’s Fit In Your Jeans By Friday” DVD workout series. (Individual).
Oil and Gas/Tax Advataged:
NanoTechOil Solutions, LLC-Patented biodegradable upstream Oil well stimulation product in US and 11 major oil producing countries. Biodegradable Oil Spill and Sludge Remediation.
Developed Rollover tax deferred Carried Operating Working Interest in Biodegradable Stimulations of Oil Wells.
Finance/ Stocks/ Commodities/Options/Venture Capital
1986-1990- Member of the New York Futures Exchange at 5 World Trade Center. Trading currency, commodity and stock index futures and options. (Individual).
2004-2026- Flashscat Ventures, LLC.-Consultant/Investor to numerous microcaps or startups in technology, bioscience, web-based applications, pharmacology, electrical transmission, oil and gas (Iraq, USA, Venezuela, Peru) and bandwidth engine microprocessors. (Individual).
2019-2025/International Law Offices of Richard Strother,Esq: Foreign Grantor Dynasty Trusts.
2016-Current: CEO: Gracie Strother & Co. Family Offices, Ltd. (Dynasty Trust Wealth Management). www.graciestrother.com
Associations/Admissions
Connecticut Bar Association
United States Tax Court
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Foreign Language Abilities/Skills
English, French, Latin (Read Only).
References: Dr. Robert Cucin, M.D., J.D.,MBA (CEO Biosculpture Technologies, Inc.); Robert W. Corby (ret: Corby Securities, Inc.).
Dean Eugene Victor Debs Rostow, COPD II
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
The Honorable Robert H. Bork
Tradition, Excellence, Achievement and Service
NOTABLE NEW-WORLD ANCESTORS, PROGENITORS AND LINEAGE
Archibald Gracie IV was portrayed by actor Bernar+d Fox in the 1997 film“Fortuyn”, to make landfall, North America -1613, founder of New Beverwijck, Novi Belgii.
2. Arnaut Viele, Sr. & Sons: Sr. married into the Mohawk tribe. Official Translators for treaty alliance of the English Forces with the Iroquois Confederacy in the French Indian Wars of 1754-1763.
3. Colonel Johannes Knickerbocker II, commander, 14th Albany County Militia regiment, wounded, Battle of Saratoga, 1777.
4. Major General Philip J. Schuyler, Continental Army, U.S. Senator.
5. Brigadier General Oliver Wolcott, Sr., Continental Army, signed the Declaration of Independence.
6. Oliver Wolcott Jr., 2nd United States Secretary of the Treasury.
7. Archibald Gracie the 1st, New York City Shipping Merchant, built Gracie Mansion, Founder of N.Y. Tontine Coffee House (now NYSE), Saturday Evening Post (now NY Post), edited Federalist # 78 with business partner, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury. Friend of Founding Father John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Life long friend of John Jacob Astor, wealthiest man in the United States in 1800.
8. Francis Griffin, first Yale Law School graduate, founder, director, Bank of New York.
9. Colonel George L. Schuyler, (Union), co-founder, New York Yacht Club, syndicate member of “America”, America’s Cup 1851, Ilse of Wight.
10. Brigadier General Egbert Ludovicus Vielé, West Point 1847, Mexican-American War, Military Governor of Norfolk, Va., Civil War, wrote “Hand-Book for Active Service” in 1862, still used today at West Point; The Topography and Hydrology of New York.in 1865, still used by NYC developers. Built Central Park in NYC and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Served in the U.S. Congress, died on April 22, 1902. His Egyptian Pyramid Tomb is a landmark at West Point.
11. Teresa Griffin Vielé, (Viele-Griffin) New York City, theologian, writer, carried the Qu’ran from West Point to Havana, Cuba to Brownsville, Texas, into Comanche Country, up the Mississippi through Lake Erie. In 1858 she published "Following the Drum": A Glimpse of Frontier Life, (Pre-Civil War Texas). She converted to Islam and published “Islam in America” and lectured at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, preceding the first wave of Islam migration into the US in 1896. She was awarded in Istanbul the medal of the Mujāhida, the highest the honor in Islam by the last Supreme Ruler of Islam, Abdul Hamid II. She died in Paris in 1906.
12. Brigadier General Archibald Gracie III, West Point, (CSA), Battle of Chickamauga, 1863, died, Siege of St. Petersburg, 1864.
13. Lieutenant Colonel David Hunter Strother, Virginia Military Academy, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Gettysburg.
14. Francis Vielé-Griffin, Professor of Law, Sorbonne, and a Symbolist Poet, papers at Princeton University. He was elected to the Acadamie Royale de langue et de Litterature Francaise in Brussels. Died in Bergerac, France.
15. T. Nelson Strother, founder, Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust Company, Baltimore, Maryland (now PNC).
16. Charles Keating Tuckerman- Harvard Law, first U.S. Ambassador to Greece to the Court of King George and Queen Olga, parents of King Constantine the 1st in 1867. Papers at Princeton University Firestone Library.
17. Edward Tuckerman, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, , Professor of Botany, Discoverer of Tuckerman’s Ravine, Mt. Washington, and Lichen, the 1st life form specie that was neither fauna or flora. Founder, Natural History Society of Boston.
18. Caroline Schermerhorn (Astor), founder of Astor’s Four Hundred.
19. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. 26th U.S. President, direct from Marie De Trieux, collaterally through Schuylers,
20. Archibald Gracie IV, last survivor of the Titanic, wrote “Titanic, A Survivor’s Story”. He was washed overboard with close friend John Jacob Astor IV, after saving Astor’s wife.
19. Fleming Tuckerman, Rock Island Railroad, Harvard Law, Author of “War Poems in French and English”.
20. Nancy Astor, or Viscomtess Lady Astor, the first woman to be elected Member of the English Parliament in 1919.
21. F. Burchill Sterling Pile Sr., co-founder of Polaroid Corporation, 1938.
22. Arthur Tuckerman, Oxford Law School, author, Look Magazine, wrote “When Rochambeau Stepped Ashore”. US. Naval Intelligence, WWII.
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Gracie Strother & Co. family history-early United States of America-post 1776
Gracie Mansion, New York City
Gracie Mansion contains the Fireplace where Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, Archibald Gracie the First’s Business Partner, died after a fatal pistol duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
In the War of 1812, Gracie built a private battery of cannons on an embankment on the East River to deter enemy British ships. Private cannons are probably no longer allowed in N.Y.C.
Archibald Gracie the 1st, Founder of N.Y. Tontine Coffee House (now NYSE), Saturday Evening Post (now NY Post), edited Federalist # 78 with business partner, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury. Second Richest Man in USA after best life long friend: John Jacob Astor.
Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American Founding Father. He signed of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as the 19th Governor of Connecticut.
Wolcott Sr. was appointed Brigadier General of the Continental Army in August 1776 with command of 14 Connecticut Militia Regiments and fought at the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Saratoga.
Oliver Wolcott’s Sr.’s son, Oliver Wolcott, Jr. was a member of the militia during The War of Independence. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar.
He was appointed by President George Washington to succeed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury in early 1795. He held that position until the end of John Adam's Administration. He was elected Governor of Connecticut for 10 years (1817-1827)
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The schooner America, and co-owner George Schulyer, overwhelmingly wins the Isle of Wight Race, August, 1851, and dips its ensign three times in salute to the Royal Yacht Albert and Victoria. Queen Victoria asked who was in second place. The reply — “there is no second” — has since become a symbol the America's Cup trophy and the pursuit of excellence, and began a new respect from a former enemy.
Young General Egbert L. Viele, President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of Treasury Chase and Secretary of War Stanton clandestinely plan the Invasion of Norfolk, VA aboard the Treasury Cutter “Miami” in early May, 1862 enroute to Hamptons Roads, VA. .
A Trip With Lincoln, Chase And Stanton
By Viele, Egbert L.
Scribner's Monthly, v. 16, no. 5, Sept. 1878
President Abraham Lincoln and company disembark the "Miami" to personally scout the beach head at Sewall's Point prior to the troop landing and invasion.
The capture of Norfolk and its shipyards and access to the open sea would deal a crushing blow to Confederate General Lee, who would have to retreat to Richmond.
Norfolk falls. The CSS Virginia (Merrimack) is scuttled on May 11,1862.
The pivitol Battle of Hampton Roads received worldwide attention. The preeminent naval powers halted further construction of wooden-hulled ships.
A new age of naval warfare had arrived. A new warship using a small number of very heavy guns, mounted on turrets so that they could fire in all directions, like the Monitor.
Viele was born in Waterford, New York, son of Kathlyne Schuyler (Knickerbocker) and State Senator John L. Viele. After graduation from the U.S.M.C.,West Point in 1847, he served in the Mexican American War, and on the Texas Frontier bordering Comanche Country.
He was appointed Military Governor of Norfolk, Virginia, in May, 1862.
From 1883-84, Viele was the Commissioner of Parks for New York City.
The "Viele Map", formally called the "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", developed by Viele in 1865, shows his survey of the original streams, marshes and coastline of New York City, superimposed over the street grid. The Map is still used by modern geotechnical engineers, structural engineers and planners to design foundations of new buildings and structures in NYC.
Viele died on April 22, 1902 in New York City. He and his second wife are entombed in a pyramid-shaped mausoleum, guarded by a pair of sphinxes, in the Post Cemetery at West Point, New York.
The inscriptions are in Etruscan, a language that preceded Latin and was taught then.
General Viele had a buzzer installed in his sarcophagus electrically wired to the caretaker's cottage so as to provide rescue if Viele ever came back from the afterlife.
His Handbook for Active Service is still used today at West Point
· Hand-book for active service; containing practical instructions in campaign duties. For the use of volunteers. (1861) New York: D. Van Nostrand.
Teresa Griffin Viéle was born in 1831 to and Mary (Sands) and Francis Griffin, a prominent New York City lawyer.
Teresa loved literature and poetry. When formal study of Islam became curricula of Protestant institutions like Union Theological Seminary in the 1830s, she loved the poetry within the versus of the Qu’ran. She would become a huge proponent of Islam In America in 1893.
In 1850, Teresa married Lt. Egbert Viéle. Deployed to the Texas Frontier, she took her Qu’ran on a journey to Havana, Cuba, Brownsville Texas, through Comanche country up the Mississippi River, and up through Lake Erie to New York.
In her book: Following the Drum: A Glimpse of Frontier Life. She rode her black stallion into the desert and read the soothing versus of the Qu’ran under a shaded tree,
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Teresa moved to Paris, France in 1872 and wrote extensively for Muhammad Webb’s The Muslim World and Voice of Islam and for Quilliam’s The Crescent, under the Muslim pen name Sadika Hanoun, earning her title of “Representative of the Ottoman Empire from France”. She was awarded in Istanbul the medal of the Mujāhida, the highest the honor in Islam by the last Supreme Ruler of Islam, Abdul Hamid II
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Charles Keating Tuckerman- Harvard, first U.S. Ambassador to Greece to the Court of King George and Queen Olga, parents of King Constantine the 1st in 1867, during the Andrew Johnson Administration. His Papers are at Princeton University's Firestone Library.
Archibald Gracie IV, was the last man to survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. After helping the pregnant wife of his family’s 4th generation friend, John Jacob Astor IV, into a lifeboat, Gracie was swept from Astor into the icy water. He managed to swim to the surface and survive by clinging to an overturned collapsible lifeboat until they were rescued by the RMS Carpathia.
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Archibald Gracie IV later wrote a highly detailed, first-hand account of the disaster Titanic: A Survivor's Story. Gracie explicitly documented a minute by minute timeline of that disaster and testified before Congress.
Heavily traumatized by the extreme exposure, he died less than eight months after the disaster .
Archibald Gracie IV was portrayed by actor Bernard Fox in the 1997 film Titanic.
February 19, 1945: Third Wave of U.S. Marines approach the beaches of Iwo Jima. My father's fellow Marines and his entire generation, like generations before them, fought bravely and selflessly to protect our shores from foreign invaders. To keep our dearly earned freedoms and our private property. Why should we give away what their blood, sweat and tears earned to any alien who just wanders in?
Gracie Strother & Co. family history-early United States f America-post 1776
The 13 Colonies and lands west unto the Mississippi River ceded by King George III of England under the Treaty of Paris, September 3,1783.
Archibald Gracie the 1st, Founder of N.Y. Tontine Coffee House (now NYSE), Saturday Evening Post (now NY Post), edited Federalist # 78 with business partner, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury. Second Richest Man in USA after best life long friend: John Jacob Astor.
Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American Founding Father. He signed of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as the 19th Governor of Connecticut.
Wolcott Sr. was appointed Brigadier General of the Continental Army in August 1776 with command of 14 Connecticut Militia Regiments and fought at the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Saratoga.
Gracie Mansion, New York City
Gracie Mansion contains the Fireplace where Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, Archibald Gracie the First’s Business Partner, died after a fatal pistol duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
In the War of 1812, Gracie built a private battery of cannons on an embankment on the East River to deter enemy British ships. Private cannons are probably no longer allowed in N.Y.C.
Oliver Wolcott’s Sr.’s son, Oliver Wolcott, Jr. was a member of the militia during The War of Independence. He was admitted to the Connecticut bar.
He was appointed by President George Washington to succeed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury in early 1795. He held that position until the end of John Adam's Administration. He was elected Governor of Connecticut for 10 years (1817-1827)
The schooner America, and co-owner George Schulyer, overwhelmingly wins the Isle of Wight Race, August, 1851, and dips its ensign three times in salute to the Royal Yacht Albert and Victoria. Queen Victoria asked who was in second place. The reply — “there is no second” — has since become a symbol the America's Cup trophy and the pursuit of excellence, and began a new respect from a former enemy.
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OLD-WORLD ANCESTORS/LINEAGES/ DISTAFF/COLLATERAL CADENCY
Western Vikings following Duke Rollo, Normandy Fiefs, Treaty of Saint-Clar-sur Epte, c.911. Followed William the Conqueror in 1066, then Strongbow into Ireland in 1170. de Gras married Strongbow's sister. Wexford, then Scotland. Changed allegiance to Duke of Buckingham and Normamby signified by half-lion quarter and Boar head of Duke on Family Crest. From Dumfries to New York City.
Western Vikings following Duke Rollo, Normandy Fiefs, Treaty of Saint-Clar-sur Epte, c.911. Followed William the Conqueror in 1066, remained in England as Norman Viking name of Tout Coeur Homme was angelized into Tuckerman. Signified by the Heart on Family Crest. Settled in New World around Boston
Western Vikings following Duke Rollo, Normandy Fiefs, Treaty of Saint-Clar-sur Epte, c.911. Followed William the Conqueror in 1066, then Strongbow into Ireland in 1170. County Wexford, then Royalists displaced by Cromwellian Civil Wars, not all forfeited lands restored. General Keating died in the Battle of Culloden and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Western Vikings following Duke Rollo, Normandy Fiefs, Treaty of Saint-Clar-sur Epte, c.911. Followed William the Conqueror in 1066. Loyal to Frazer Branch then married into Frazer via one daughter, significant land holdings. Title dormant yet not extinct, can be claimed by the male line of second son of the Second Lord Fleming who settled in America. Lands currently held by Elphinstone House.
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Western Vikings who raided Northumberland under Viking name strōðer or strothӧr. Preceded William the Conqueror by many years, not mentioned in Domeday Book or Harrowing of the North. Allied with Norman Vikings and controlled the Scottish border. Crown around Deer neck notes service to Edward I,II,and III and Tudors. Displaced by Cromwellian Civil Wars. Settled in Virginia.
Llywelyn the Last Prince of Wales. Fall of the House of Aberffraw to Edward I in 1293. Ednyfed Fychan survived with the House of Griffin of Penrhyn. His great great grandson, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur married collaterally Catherine of Valois. Their grandson, Henry VII became the first Tudor King. Welsh law, Cyfraith Hywel, allows for distaff collateral claims based on Kinship.
Coat of Arms of last Huguenot Valois King of France, Poland and Lithuania, Henry III, assassinated and replaced by Bourbons. This exacerbated the flight of Huguenots to Holland and then North America after the Saint Bartholomew Days Massacre in Paris in 1572.
The flight of the La Tremoille and Viele's broke the France based lineage dating back to Hugh Capet in 996 A.D. French Law does not allow distaff claims.
This chart of Old World Royalty shows the cross linkage and cross collateral commingling of blood lines of the various houses (in boxes related to current CEO) from Capet to Valois and Plantagenet through the Gwenllian Tudors and later the Stewarts. A basic dynastic mess, engendering numerous claims and endless warfare.
The RURIKID Dynasty containing both the houses of Sherbatov and Romanov
founded by Eastern Viking Prince Rurik in 862. This began the rule of the Kiev Rus, ruling from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea often at war with their northern Viking kinfolk.
The Sherbatovs are the Kiev Rus line. The CEO's Grandfather's niece is Princess Alexis Sherbatov. She is a direct descendant form Prince Rurik and in line for the throne of Kiev. Distaff claims are allowed under Russian Law.
The Romanovs ruled the Moscow throne when it was claimed in 1509 by Female Line Legitimacy of Ananastasia Romanova and ruled until extinction by the murderous execution of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, son and four daughters as well as their servants and doctor in Yekaterinburg in1918.
The Rurik Dynastic Chart clearly shows the Sherbatovs superior claim over the Romanovs to the throne of the Russian Empire, which is not extinct but dormant.
Knickerbocker Coat of Arms- Lowlands: Gelderland and Overijseel
Burchills, served Earl of Lancaster, Edward I, II, and III
Valois Royal Arms of France, Order of Saint Michael
Scepter and Crowns of the Tsar and Tsarina, Eighth Wonder of the World, Kremlin, Moscow
Katerina the Great's favorite brooch.
Eight Wonder of the World, basement of the Kremlin,1992
November 6, 2024-2:26 a.m. EL Jeffe accepts! History is made. Palm Beach, Florida, USA.