Adrian Iselin Jr.

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Adrian Georg Iselin Jr.
Born(1846-10-14)October 14, 1846
New York City,[1] U.S.
DiedJanuary 29, 1935(1935-01-29) (aged 88)
New York City, U.S.
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery
OccupationBanker
Spouse(s)
Louise Caylus
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(m. 1872; died 1909)​

Sarah Gracie King Bronson
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(m. 1914; died 1931)​
Parent(s)Adrian Georg Iselin
Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin
RelativesC. Oliver Iselin (brother)
Columbus O'Donnell (grandfather)

Adrian Georg Iselin Jr. (October 14, 1846 – January 29, 1935)[1] was an American banker.

Early life[]

Iselin was born on October 14, 1846 in New York City.[2] He was the eldest of seven children born to Adrian Georg Iselin (1818–1905) and Eleanora (née O'Donnell) Iselin (1821–1897). His younger siblings included William Emil Iselin;[3] Eleanora Iselin[4] (wife of DeLancey Astor Kane);[5] Columbus O'Donnell Iselin[6][7] (husband of Edith Colford Jones);[8][9] Charles Oliver Iselin;[10] Georgine Iselin,[11] who was made a Papal Countess in 1912 and did not marry;[11][12] Emilie Eleanora Iselin[13][14] (wife of John George Beresford, a grandson of Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford).[15][16] in 1898.[17]

"From his boyhood, Adrian had accompanied his father on his travels throughout the various mining towns, and later made such journeys alone or joined by his wife and children."[18]

Career[]

Beginning in 1868, he was engaged in the banking business founded by his father, with Adrian Jr. later serving as the senior member of the investment banking firm of A. Iselin & Co., which was located at 40 Wall Street. He also served as president and a director of the Iselin Corporation, the City and Suburban Homes Co., the Astor Trust Company, among others.[2] He controlled the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company, which established Adrian Mines and Yatesboro, Pennsylvania.[18]

Iselin owned a significant number of shares of the New York Dock Company, which he sold to Gregori Benenson in 1923. "Two years previously he formed the protective committee representing holders of first and second preferred shares in a proposed plan of reorganization of the Reading Company" and formerly was a director of the Southern Railway and was a member of the finance committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.[2]

Philanthropy[]

In October 1914, Iselin presented the Indiana County's General Hospital to the people of Indiana in memory of his first wife, Louise Caylus Iselin, who died in 1909.[18]

Personal life[]

On April 4, 1872, Iselin was married to Louise Caylus (1848–1909).[19] Louisa and Adrian lived in New York City and maintained a residence at Davenport Neck, a peninsula in New Rochelle, and together were the parents of:

  • Adrian Iselin III (1872–1885), who died aged 12.
  • Ernest Iselin (1876–1954),[20] who married Pauline Whittier (1876–1946),[21] a daughter of Charles A. Whittier, in 1904.[22]
  • Therese Eleanor Iselin (1880–1958), who married Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871–1941), the United States Ambassador to Greece and Spain.[23]
  • Louise Marie Iselin (1888–1962), who died unmarried in France in 1962.[24]

After Louise's death on December 4, 1909,[19] he remarried to Sarah Gracie King Bronson (1850–1931) at St. Patrick's Cathedral on February 18, 1914.[25] Sarah, the widow of Frederic Bronson, was the daughter of Archibald Gracie King and Elizabeth Denning (née Duer) King, and the granddaughter of U.S. Representative James Gore King and William Alexander Duer. She was also the sister of May Denning King, who married John King Van Rensselaer, son of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck.[26] From her first marriage, Sarah was the mother of Elizabeth Duer Bronson,[27] who was married to Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, the United States Ambassador to Italy,[28] before her death in 1914.[27]

Iselin was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the Order of the Knights of Malta, the Downtown Association, the Luncheon Club of Wall Street, the Knickerbocker Club, the Metropolitan Club, the Union Club, the Piping Rock Club, the Turf and Field Club, the Riding Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Larchmont Yacht Club, the New Rochelle Yacht Club, and the Genesee Valley Club of Rochester.[2]

His widow died in her sleep on 1931.[29][30] Iselin died on January 29, 1935 at his home, 820 Park Avenue in New York City.[2] After a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[31]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Adrian George Iselin Jr. (1846-1935) - Find A..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  2. ^ a b c d e "ADRIAN ISELIN DIES IN HIS 89TH YEAR; Head of the Family's Banking Firm, Which He Entered in the Late 1860s" (PDF). The New York Times. January 30, 1935. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ^ "WILLIAM E. ISELIN, MERCHANT, 89, DIES; Partner for Many Years in the Family's Wholesale Dry Goods Concern Here". The New York Times. January 27, 1937. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  4. ^ "MRS. DELANCEY A. KANE; Member of Old New York Family Dies in Westchester at 89". The New York Times. 23 October 1938. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  5. ^ "COL. DE LANCEY KANE DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Noted Horseman and Astor's Great-Grandson Initiated Coaching in America. LONG A SOCIAL LEADER Graduate of West Point Who Inherited $10,000,000 Served in the Cavalry in Our Army". The New York Times. 5 April 1915. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  6. ^ "C.O'D ISELIN DEAD; FINANCIER WAS 82; Banker Who Retired 13 Years Ago, Was Director in Many Corporations. FAMILY NOTED IN FINANCE Had Extensive Real Estate Holdings in City--Member of Leading Clubs". The New York Times. 11 November 1933. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  7. ^ "C.O'D. ISELIN LEFT EMPLOYEES $110,000; Residue of Large Estate of Financier Who Died in New Rochelle Goes to Family". The New York Times. 22 November 1933. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  8. ^ "MRS. EDITH COLFORD ISELIN; Wife of Banker and Yachtsman Dies of Pneumonia". The New York Times. 1 April 1930. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  9. ^ "MRS. ISELIN'S WILL GIVES ESTATE TO KIN; Son, Daughter and Children of Son Who Died to Get Bulk of Fortune Put at $5,000,000". The New York Times. 13 April 1930. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  10. ^ "C. OLIVER ISELIN, NOTED BANKER, DEAD; Member of Family of Financiers Succumbs at 78 After Illness of Three Years. WAS AN ABLE YACHTSMAN Served as Sailing Master In International America's Cup Races--Used Bold Tactics". The New York Times. January 2, 1932. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  11. ^ a b "GEORGINE ISELIN, A PHILANTHROPIST; Member of Old City Family, Honored for Charity Work, Dies in New Rochelle at 96". The New York Times. 1 July 1954. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  12. ^ "$135,000 TO CHARITIES; Miss Iselin's Will Also Makes $350,000 in Personal Gifts". The New York Times. 17 July 1954. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  13. ^ "Mrs. Emilie E. Beresford". The New York Times. 25 May 1916. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  14. ^ "Mrs. Beresford's Will Filed". The New York Times. 4 June 1916. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  15. ^ "$6,000,000 ESTATE DIVIDED.; J.G. Beresford's Widow Gets Major Portion Under Will". The New York Times. 13 June 1925. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  16. ^ "John George Beresford". The New York Times. 11 May 1925. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  17. ^ "MARRIED. Beresford--Iselin". The New York Times. 23 February 1898. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  18. ^ a b c "Iselin Family - Coal Culture: People, Lives, and Stories - Coal Culture Projects". www.iup.edu. Special Collections and University Archives - Departments - IUP Libraries. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  19. ^ a b "MRS. ADRIAN ISELIN, JR., DEAD. Wife of New York Banker Dies at Her Home in Fifth Avenue". The New York Times. 5 December 1909. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  20. ^ "DIED. ISELIN--Ernest". The New York Times. January 12, 1954. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  21. ^ "MRS. ERNEST ISELIN; HELPED CHARITIES; Founder of Generosity Thrift Shop Dies at 69--Was Kin of Massachusetts Whittiers". The New York Times. 4 March 1946. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  22. ^ Broadway Weekly. Broadcast Weekly Publishing Company. 1904. p. 18. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  23. ^ "IRWIN LAUGHLIN, 70, EX-ENVOY TO SPAIN; Career Diplomat, Ambassador From 1929 to 1933, Dies at Home in Washington WAS MINISTER TO GREECE Former Treasurer of Jones & Laughlin Steel Company Entered Service in 1903" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 April 1941. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  24. ^ "Louise Iselin (1888-1962)". www.nyhistory.org. New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  25. ^ "ADRIAN ISELIN AND MRS. BRONSON WED; Banker and Widow of Frederic Bronson Married in Rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral". The New York Times. 20 February 1914. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  26. ^ Sullivan, Robert G. (1911). "Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer Vol. IV". www.schenectadyhistory.org. Schenectady County Public Library. pp. 1814–1821. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  27. ^ a b "MRS. L. C. GRISCOM DEAD.; Wife of ex-Ambassador to Rome Succumbs in Hotel St. Regis". The New York Times. 17 November 1914. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  28. ^ "GRISCOM-BRONSON NUPTIALS.; United States Minister to Persia Takes a Wife in London". The New York Times. 3 November 1901. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  29. ^ "MRS. ADRIAN ISELIN DIES IN HER SLEEP; Wife of Banking House's Head Is Stricken in Her 81st Year. A SOCIETY CONSERVATIVE Was a Descendant of the King, Duer and Gracie Families, Long Prominent in This City". The New York Times. 5 April 1931. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  30. ^ "MRS. ISELIN'S FUNERAL.; 200 Persons of Prominence at the Services in Grace Church". The New York Times. 7 April 1931. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  31. ^ "ADRIAN ISELIN LEFT ESTATE TO FAMILY; Son and Two Daughters of the Banker Share Most of It -Value 'More Than $20,000.'". The New York Times. 7 February 1935. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

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