Havemeyer family

The Havemeyer family is a prominent family from New York, of German origins, that owned significant sugar refining interests in the United States.[1]

Havemeyer
Current region	New York
Place of origin	Germany
Connected families	Vanderbilt family Frelinghuysen family Goelet family Roosevelt family

History

William Havemeyer (1770-1851) left Germany at age 15 and arrived in New York City after learning the trade of sugar refining in London. In New York he managed a sugar house on Pine Street before opening his own refinery on Vandam Street with his brother, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, who had come to New York in 1802. Together the two brothers operated the W. & F.C. Havemeyer Company sugar refineries, before passing the business on to their sons.[2] His son William Frederick Havemeyer, retired from the sugar refining business in 1842 and entered politics, eventually serving three terms as Mayor of New York.[3][4] In 1855 the family relocated their refineries to Brooklyn, where they remained as the business grew to acquire a commanding share of the United States sugar refining market under the leadership of Frederick's grandson, Henry Osborne Havemeyer. The Havemeyer refineries were incorporated as the American Sugar Refining Company in 1891 and became known as Domino Sugar in 1900.[5] In the 20th century several of the family's members made notable contributions to the arts. Henry Osborne Havemeyer and his wife Louisine Havemeyer made large bequests to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and their daughter Electra Havemeyer Webb founded the Shelburne Museum.[6][7]

Havemeyer Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn is named after the family.[8]

Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874)

Family tree

• William Havemeyer (1770-1851) ∞ Susannah Clegg (1781-1838)[9]
  • William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874) ∞ Sarah Agnes Craig (1807-1894)
    • John Craig Havemeyer (1832-1922) [10]
    • Charles William Havemeyer ∞ Julia Loomis [11]
      • Loomis Havemeyer (1886-1971)[12]
      • Julia Loomis Havemeyer
    • Henry Havemeyer (1838-1886) ∞ Mary Moller[13]
      • William Moller Havemeyer (1865-1900) ∞ Clara Bloodgood[14]
    • Hector Craig Havemeyer (1840-1889)[15]
  • Anna Margaret Havemeyer (1806-1891) ∞ Charles Burkhalter (1804-1884)[16]
    • Susan Havemeyer Burkhalter ∞ Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer (1839-1917) [17]
  • Albert Havemeyer (1814-1874) ∞ Henrietta Sherman (1818-1880)[18]
    • Anne Amelia Havemeyer (1850 - 1934) ∞ Norris Woodruff Mundy (1845-1918)
      • Norris Havemeyer Mundy (1874-1943)[19]
    • William Albert Havemeyer (1843-1903)[20]
    • Henrietta Sherman Havemeyer (1854-1928) ∞ Charles Waldo Haskins (1852-1903)[21]
      • Noël Haskins (1895-1982) ∞ Frederic Timothy Murphy (1884-1924)
  • Amelia Susanna Havemeyer (1820-1859) ∞ Augustus Theodosius Geissenhainer (1814-1882)[22]
    • Anna Margaret Geissenhainer (1847-1893) ∞ George Goelet Kip (1845-1926)[23]
      • Charles Augustus Kip (1870-1940) ∞ Marie Gilmour Bryce (1878-1940)[24]
      • Elbert Samuel Kip (1874-1950) ∞ Alice Alden Bushnell (1872-1952) [25]
      • Anna Elizabeth Kip (1880-1918) ∞ A. Paul Olmsted (1882-1948)

1912 Newspaper Article about the Havemeyers

• Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1774-1841) ∞ Catharine Billiger (1784-1876)[26]
  • Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1807-1891) ∞ Sarah Louise Osborne Henderson (1812-1851) [27]
    • Theodore Havemeyer (1839-1897) ∞ Emily de Loosey (1844–1914)[28]
      • Charles Frederick Havemeyer (1867-1898) ∞ Camilla Woodward Moss (1869-1934)[29]
      • Theodora Havemeyer (1878-1945) ∞ Cameron Winslow (1854-1932)
    • Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847-1907) ∞ Louisine Waldron Elder (1855-1929)
      • Adaline Havemeyer (1884-1963) ∞ Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen
        • Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (1916-2011)
          • Rodney Frelinghuysen (1946- )[30]
      • Horace Havemeyer (1886-1956) ∞ Doris Anna Dick (1890-1982)[31]
        • Horace Havemeyer Jr. (c. 1915–1990) ∞ Rosalind Everdell (1917–2017)[32]
          • Horace Havemeyer III (1942–2014) ∞ Eugenie Cowan.[33]
          • Rosalind Havemeyer ∞ Christopher du Pont Roosevelt (b. 1941) (son of F.D.R. Jr.)[34]
      • Electra Havemeyer (1888–1960) ∞ James Watson Webb II (1884–1960)
        • James Watson Webb, Jr. (1916–2000)[35]
  • Mary Rosina Havemeyer (1812-1885) ∞ John Isaiah Northrop[36]
    • John Isaiah Northrop (1861-1891) ∞ Alice Belle Rich (1863-1922)
      • John Howard Northrop (1891-1987) ∞ Louise Walker[37]
        • Alice Havemeyer Northrop (1921-2016) ∞ Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916-2003)

See also

• Vanderbilt family
• Frelinghuysen family

References

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2. Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
3. The Business World, Volume 2. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
4. "Charles F. Chandler, The Havemeyer Family, And New York City Politics". Columbia University. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
5. Diamond, Anna. "These Photos of the Abandoned Domino Sugar Refinery Document Its Sticky History". Smithsonian. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
6. "Who Were the Havemeyers?". Brownstoner. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
7. "Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
8. https://greenpointers.com/2019/01/25/where-do-the-names-of-williamsburg-streets-come-from/
9. Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
10. "John C. Havemeyer Dead in 90th Year". The New York Times. June 9, 1922. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
11. The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
12. "Dr. Loomis Havemeyer Dead". The New York Times. August 16, 1971. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
13. "Obituary 1". The New York Times. June 3, 1886. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
14. "Death List of a Day". The New York Times. February 9, 1900. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
15. "H.C Havemeyer's Will". The New York Times. March 11, 1890. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
16. History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
17. Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
18. "The Death of Albert Havemeyer". The New York Times. August 23, 1874. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
19. "Norris H. Mundy". The New York Times. January 6, 1943. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
20. "The Death List of a Day". The New York Times. June 30, 1903. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
21. Gen?t: A Biography of Janet Flanner. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
22. "Death of a Well-Known Lutheran Clergyman". The Reading Times. March 6, 1882. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
23. "Society At Home and Abroad". The New York Times. April 8, 1906. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
24. "Society Enjoys Autumnal Season in the Country". The New York Times. September 21, 1913. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
25. "Kip-Bushnell". The New York Times. June 29, 1899. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
26. Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
27. The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
28. "DEATH OF T. A. HAVEMEYER; Vice President of the American Sugar Refining Company and a Man of Large Affairs. WAS BAPTIZED WHEN DYING Called for a Priest and Was Received into the Catholic Church -- To be Buried from the Cathedral -His Notable Career". The New York Times. 27 April 1897. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
29. "Death of C.F. Havemeyer". The New York Times. May 11, 1898. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
30. "Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen Is Bride of William Blair Meyer Jr". The New York Times. September 11, 1977. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
31. "Mrs. Horace Havemeyer". The New York Times. September 22, 1982. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
32. "Horace Havemeyer, 75, Ex-Head Of National Sugar Refining, Dies". The New York Times. 12 June 1990. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
33. "Horace Havemeyer, III, 1942-2014". The Architect's Newspaper. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
34. "Christopher du Pont Roosevelt Fiance of Rosalind Havemeyer". The New York Times. 20 December 1964. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
35. "J. Watson Webb, Former Head Of the Shelburne (Vt.) Museum". New York Times. June 14, 2000. Retrieved 9 July 2018. J. Watson Webb Jr., the former president and chairman of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, whose family was among the country's pre-eminent art collectors, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84 and had homes in Los Angeles and Shelburne.
36. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
37. John Howard Northrop. Retrieved 9 July 2018.