Harry Oakes

Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (December 23, 1874 Sangerville, Maine – July 7, 1943 Nassau, Bahamas) was an American-born British Canadian gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes. He was murdered in 1943 under notorious circumstances in the Bahamas. The cause of his death and the details surrounding it have never been entirely determined, and have been the subject of several books and four films. Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine; his father was a prosperous lawyer. He graduated from Foxcroft Academy and then Bowdoin College in 1896 and then spent two years at the Syracuse University Medical School. However, in 1898, he left...