Raynor, Seth Jagger

1874 - 1926  (51 years)

• Name	Raynor, Seth Jagger
  Birth	7 May 1874	Manorville, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Gender	Male
  Race	White
  Occupation	landscape engineer, town surveyor in Southampton.
  Occupation	1900
  	civil engineer
  Residence	Between 1900 and 1910	Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
  	With his mother
  Occupation	1910
  	surveyor
  Residence	1920	Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
  	Age: 45; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head
  _AMTID	122722689354:1030:207924248
  _COLOR	5
  _COLOR1	2
  _FSFTID	936V-B53
  _UID	83F2078AED9D499CB79415303E6BCD60DB58
  Death	22 Jan 1926	West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States
  	Cause: Age: 51
  Burial	Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary R.C. Cemetery, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Person ID	I688	Charles Banks and Jon Ray Family Tree
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2022

  
  

  Father	Raynor, David Henry,   b. Jun 1849, St. George's Manor, Suffolk, New York, United States d. 2 Jul 1892, Manorville, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Burnett, Ella Jerusha,   b. 18 Nov 1849, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States d. Aft 1930, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States (Age > 82 years)
  Marriage	27 Sep 1870	Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
  Family ID	F201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hallock, Mary Arminta,   b. 20 Feb 1876, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States d. Aft 1920 (Age > 45 years)
  Marriage	1903
  Family ID	F376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2026

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 7 May 1874 - Manorville, Suffolk, New York, United States Residence - With his mother - Between 1900 and 1910 - Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States Residence - Age: 45; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head - 1920 - Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States Death - Cause: Age: 51 - 22 Jan 1926 - West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, United States Burial - - Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary R.C. Cemetery, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Seth Jagger Raynor (1874-1926) was a golf course architect. He lived at the turn of the 20th century and is acclaimed as the architect of many of America's greatest golf courses. Raynor was born on May 7, 1874 in Manorville, Long Island, New York and attended Princeton University, studying civil engineering before leaving in 1898 without a degree. He married Mary A. Hallock in 1903, and for the first years of his working life, he engineered drains, roads and waterworks. He then became interested in golf course design and the building of golf courses - an interesting leap, because by all accounts he did not personally play golf at first, and only took up the game after first designing three major courses in partnership with Charles Blair Macdonald (Sleepy Hollow, Piping Rock and the St. Louis Country Club). Raynor felt that "the golfer should learn to play the ideal links and that the ideal links should not come down to the playing ability of the lesser skilled player." He designed his first course in 1914, when he was 38. Raynor died on Jan. 23, 1926 at age 51 of pneumonia at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he and his wife were staying while they opened one of his golf courses. At the time of his death he left over 30 unfinished courses, which his associate Charles Banks gradually completed. In less than two short decades, Seth Raynor had designed and/or built more than 100 golf courses.

  
  

• Reference

  Charles Banks. "Raynor, Seth Jagger". The families of Charles Banks and Jon Ray. https://familytree.banksray.com/getperson.php?personID=I688&tree=banksray (accessed April 20, 2026).