Henry Francis du Pont

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Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), was an American horticulturist and a member of the prominent Du Pont family.

Born at Winterthur, Delaware, he was the only son of Henry Algernon du Pont and Mary Pauline Foster. He studied horticulture at the Bussey Institution at Harvard University. In 1916, he married Ruth Wales (1889-1967) and they had 2 children, Pauline Louise du Pont (b. 1918) and Ruth Ellen du Pont (b. 1922).

A collector of Americana, Henry Francis du Pont developed the family estate into the well known Winterthur Museum.