Frederick Frelinghuysen (businessman)

Frederick Frelinghuysen (September 30, 1848 – January 1, 1924)[1] was an American businessman. He was the president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey, for 25 years.

This article is about the lawyer and businessman who died in 1924. For the U.S. Senator and Secretary of State who died in 1885, see Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen. For other persons named Frederick Frelinghuysen, see Frederick Frelinghuysen (disambiguation).
Frederick Frelinghuysen
Frelinghuysen and his wife in Tuxedo, c. 1915
Born(1848-09-30)September 30, 1848
Newark, New Jersey
DiedJanuary 1, 1924(1924-01-01) (aged 75)
Newark, New Jersey
Alma materRutgers College
OccupationPresident of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Spouse(s)Estelle B. Kinney
ChildrenGeorge G. Frelinghuysen II
Estelle C. Frelinghuysen
Frederick Frelinghuysen
Thomas Frelinghuysen
Theodore Frelinghuysen
Parent(s)Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
RelativesGeorge Griswold Frelinghuysen (brother)
Theodore Frelinghuysen (brother)

Early life

Frelinghuysen was born on September 30, 1848 in Newark, New Jersey. He was a son of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen and Matilda Elizabeth Griswold (who was of English descent).[2] His siblings included:[3] Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen[4] (who married prominent merchant Henry Winthrop Gray);[5][3][6] Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen;[7] George Griswold Frelinghuysen;[8] m. Sara Linen Ballantine (granddaughter of Peter Ballantine)[9] prominent New York clubman Theodore Frelinghuysen; and Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen[10] (who married Judge John Davis, and after his death, Brig. Gen. Charles Laurie McCawley).[10][lower-alpha 1] His father was a lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator and later as Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur.[14]

His paternal grandparents were Frederick Frelinghuysen and Mary (née Dumont) Frelinghuysen. His grandfather died when his father was just three years old, so his father was adopted by his uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen.[lower-alpha 2] Both grandfather and adopted grandfather were sons of Frederick Frelinghuysen, the eminent lawyer who was one of the framers of the first New Jersey Constitution, a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, a member of the Continental Congress, and a member of the United States Senate.[14] His maternal grandfather George Griswold,[3] was a merchant in New York City who "made an immense fortune in the time of the clipper trade with China."[16]

He graduated from Rutgers College in 1868.[1]

Career

Frelinghuysen was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1871 and as a counselor in 1874. He became president of the Howard Savings Institution. He resigned that post to become president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.[1]

Personal life

On July 23, 1902, he was married to Estelle Burnet Kinney (1868–1931), a daughter of Thomas Talmadge Kinney and Estelle Burnet (née Condit) Kinney.[17] Her paternal grandfather was Chargé d'Affaires to the Kingdom of Sardinia William Burnet Kinney (whose second wife was writer Elizabeth Clementine Stedman). Together, they lived in Elberon, New Jersey and were the parents of four sons and one daughter including:[3]

  • Frederick Frelinghuysen (1903–1966),[18] who married Elizabeth (née Lyman) Harrower, a daughter of Maj. Ronald T. Lyman and Elizabeth Van Cortlandt (née Parker) Lyman, in 1937.[19][20] She was the former wife of Gordon Harrower.[21]
  • Thomas Talmadge Kinney Frelinghuysen (b. 1905),[3] a sculptor who married Roselyne de Viry, a daughter of Baron Humbert and Baroness Delphine Marie de Viry,[lower-alpha 3] of Thonon-les-Bains, Haute Savoie,[23] and Shipton Court, Lenox, Massachusetts (today the Seven Hills Inn),[24] in 1949.[25]
  • Theodore Frelinghuysen (b. 1907).[3]
  • George Griswold Frelinghuysen II (1908–2002), who married Anne de Smolianinof, a daughter of Grand Master of Imperial Court Vladimir N. de Smolianinof, in 1934.[26][27]
  • Estelle C. "Suzy" Frelinghuysen (1911–1988),[28] who married fellow painter George Lovett Kingsland Morris.[29]

He died in the Post Graduate Hospital after a three-week illness in Manhattan, New York City on January 1, 1924.[1] His widow died on May 13, 1931.

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References
Notes
  1. Through his sister Sarah and niece Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen (née Davis) Lodge (1876–1960), who married George Cabot Lodge, he was the grand-uncle of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), the diplomat and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts,[11][12] and John Davis Lodge (1903–1985), also a diplomat, U.S. Representative, and Governor of Connecticut.[13]
  2. His grand-uncle and adopted grandfather, Theodore Frelinghuysen, was Attorney General of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the Whig candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Henry Clay ticket in the 1844 Presidential election, and was Chancellor of New York University from 1839 until 1850 and president of Rutgers College from 1850 to 1862.[15]
  3. Roselyn's mother, Baroness Delphine Marie de Viry was a daughter of Count Maximillien de Foras and the Countess de Foras (the former Marie Delphine Read, a daughter of the American diplomat J. Meredith Read).[22]
Sources
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  2. Salisbury (1884). The Griswold family of Connecticut. New Haven : Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. p. 150.
  3. Lee, Francis Bazley (1910). Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ... Lewis historical Publishing Company. p. 14. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  4. "MRS. M.G.F. GRAY OF OLD FAMILY DIES; Daughter of F. T. Frelinghuysen, Once Secretary of State-Funeral Today". The New York Times. March 25, 1926. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  5. "DIED. Gray". The New York Times. October 15, 1906. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
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  7. "Charlotte Frelinghuysen". The New York Times. July 19, 1930. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
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  19. TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (March 4, 1937). "MRS. HARROWER WED IN BOSTON CEREMONY; She Becomes Bride of Frederick Frelinghuysen at Home of Her Parents". The New York Times. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  20. "Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Dies; Active in Historical Societies". The New York Times. April 30, 1983. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  21. "Harrower--Frelinghuysen". The New York Times. February 18, 1937. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  22. "Roselyne deViry Frelinghuysen". The Berkshire Eagle. March 12, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  23. Mémoires and Documents, Volumes 28-29 (in French). 1886. p. 30. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  24. "Roselyne deViry Frelinghuysen". The Berkshire Eagle. March 12, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  25. "ROSELYNE DE VIRY WED; Bride at St, Bartholomew's to Thomas T. K. Frelinghuysen". The New York Times. September 4, 1949. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  26. "G.G. Frelinghuysen Weds Russian Girl. Anne de Smolianinoff, Daughter of Former Grand Master of Imperial Court, His Bride". New York Times. December 14, 1934. Retrieved May 30, 2007. Daughter of Former Grand Master of Imperial Court, His Bride. Mrs. Vladimir N. de Smolianinof of West Seventy-fifth Street announced yesterday the ...
  27. "Obtains Decree in Reno; Former Anne de Smolianinof Divorces G. G. Frelinghuysen". The New York Times. June 7, 1938. Retrieved May 30, 2007. Mrs. Anne de Smolianinoff Frelinghuysen obtained a divorce here today from George Griswold Frelinghuysen of Princeton, New Jersey, on grounds of cruelty. They were married on December 12, 1934, in Los Angeles.
  28. "Suzy Frelinghuysen, Artist, Is Dead at 76". New York Times. March 23, 1988. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  29. "George L. K. Morris Is Dead; Abstract Artist and Sculptor". The New York Times. June 27, 1975. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
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