Christopher Temple Emmet (July 8, 1868 – July 22, 1957) was an American attorney and sportsman.
Early life
Emmet was born on July 8, 1868 in
Pelham, New York
Pelham is a suburban town in Westchester County, approximately 10 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 13,078, an increase from the 2010 census. Historically, Pelham was composed of five villages ...
. He was one of ten children born to William Jenkins Emmet (1826–1905) and
Julia Colt (née Pierson) Emmet (1829–1908). His siblings included
Robert Temple Emmet
Robert Temple Emmet (December 13, 1854 – October 25, 1936) was a United States Army colonel who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions while surrounded by a much larger force. An 1877 graduate of West Point, he served in numerous cam ...
,
who was awarded the
Medal of Honor
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;
Rosina Hubley Emmet, a painter who was the mother of playwright
Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
He is the author of '' Waterloo Bridge, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Rebecca, There Shall Be No Night, The Best Years of Our ...
;
William LeRoy Emmet
William Le Roy Emmet (July 10, 1859 – September 26, 1941) was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems including the design of large rotary converters.
Biography
Emmet was born in New Rochelle ...
, an electrical engineer;
Devereux Emmet
Devereux Emmet (December 11, 1861 – December 30, 1934) was a pioneering American golf course architect who, according to one source, designed more than 150 courses worldwide.
Early life
Devereux Emmet was born in Pelham, New York, on December ...
, a pioneering golf course architect;
Richard Stockton Emmet;
Lydia Field Emmet
Lydia Field Emmet (January 23, 1866 – August 16, 1952) was an American artist best known for her work as a portraitist. She studied with, among others, prominent artists such as William Merritt Chase, Harry Siddons Mowbray, Kenyon Cox and Tony ...
, a prominent
portraitist
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;
and
Jane Erin Emmet,
also a prominent portraitist who married British impressionist painter
Wilfrid de Glehn
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (sometimes 'Wilfried') (1870 – 11 May 1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.
Biography
De Glehn's father was Alexander de Glenn of Sydenham, London, himself the son of ...
.
His maternal grandparents were Josiah Gilbert Pierson and Julia Boudinot (
née
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Colt) Pierson and his paternal grandparents were Judge Robert Emmet and Rosina (née Hubley) Emmet.
His father was a grandson of
New York Attorney General
The attorney general of New York is the chief legal officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the Department of Law of the state government. The office has been in existence in some form since 1626, under the Dutch colonial government of ...
Thomas Addis Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet (24 April 176414 November 1827) was an Irish and American lawyer and politician. He was a senior member of the revolutionary Irish republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s. He served as Attorney General of New York from ...
. Two of his uncles,
Richard Stockton Emmet and Christopher Temple Emmet, were married to sisters, Katharine "Kitty" Temple and
Ellen James "Bay" Temple, both first cousins of British author
Henry James
Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...
.
After preparing at
Bishop's College School
Bishop's College School or BCS is an English-language non-profit independent boarding
prep school in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada for students in Grades 7 to 12.Thomson, Ashley; Lafortune, Sylvie (1999). Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools. To ...
in
Lennoxville, Quebec
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Lennoxvi ...
and Stevens High School,
Emmet attended the
Yale Forestry School and the
Stevens Institute of Technology
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, where he graduated from with a M.E. degree in 1891.
Career
After taking a law degree, he practiced law for a short period of time before travelling to Europe, later spending much of his time there. He served during the
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence
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, and during
World War I
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, he was a
Red Cross
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official and training officer. He was also a member of Squadron A of the
New York National Guard
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.
At a time when skiing was relatively unknown in the United States, Emmet was one of the first Americans to go skiing in Norway and Switzerland. He was also one of the first members of the
Racquet and Tennis Club
The Racquet and Tennis Club, familiarly known as the R&T, is a private social and athletic club at 370 Park Avenue, between East 52nd and 53rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
History
The Racquet Court Club opened in 1876 at 55 We ...
in New York City,
and the Academy of Sciences, the
American Geographical Society
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, the
National Geographic Society
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Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, and ...
, the
New York Zoological Society
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New or NEW may refer to:
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* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
, the
American Museum of Natural History
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, the
American Forestry Association
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The mission of American ...
, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, the
Audubon Society
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, the
Knickerbocker Club
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, the St. Anthony Club of New York, the Tobique Salmon Club, and the Ore Hill Shooting Club.
Residence
The Emmets lived at
The Mallows, an estate located in
Stony Brook, New York
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at
Head of the Harbor in
Suffolk County, New York
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. The
Colonial revival
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The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...
home was designed in 1906 by architect
Charles A. Platt
Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was a prominent American architect, garden designer, and artist of the "American Renaissance" movement. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture.
Early career Pai ...
, finished in
stucco
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with wooden detailing at the principal doorways, roof cornice and porch.
[ ''See also:'' ] At the Mallows, he "engaged in farming."
Personal life
On October 27, 1896, Emmet was married to Alida Beekman Chanler (1873–1969) at
Red Hook, New York
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by the Bishop of New York.
Alida was the daughter of former
U.S. Representative
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John Winthrop Chanler
John Winthrop Chanler (September 14, 1826 – October 19, 1877) was a prominent New York lawyer and a U.S. Representative from New York. He was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family and married Margaret Astor Ward, a member of the Astor family. ...
and Margaret
Astor (née
Ward
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* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
) Chanler. Among Alida's siblings were
John Armstrong Chaloner
John "Archie" Armstrong Chaloner (né Chanler; October 10, 1862 – June 1, 1935) was an American writer and activist, known for his catch phrase "Who's looney now?".
Early life
Chaloner was born John Armstrong Chanler on October 10, 1862 to Mar ...
,
Winthrop Astor Chanler
Winthrop Astor Chanler (October 14, 1863 – August 24, 1926) was an American sportsman and soldier who fought in the Spanish–American War and World War I.
Chanler, a descendant of many prominent American families including the Dudley–Winthr ...
;
Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler
Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler Chapman (February 23, 1866 – June 5, 1937) was an American heiress and socialite during the Gilded Age.
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(wife of
John Jay Chapman
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Chapman was born in New York City on March 2, 1862. He was a son of Henry Grafton Chapman Jr. (1833–1883), a broker who became president of the New York S ...
);
William Astor Chanler (who married
Beatrice Ashley);
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (September 24, 1869 in Newport, Rhode Island – February 28, 1942 in New York City) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1907 to 1908.
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He was the fifth ...
(who married
Julia Lynch Olin
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);
Margaret Livingston Chanler
Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich (1870–1963) was an American philanthropist, poet, nurse, and woman's suffrage advocate. She served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, t ...
(who married
Richard Aldrich) and
Robert Winthrop Chanler
Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux- ...
(who married
Lina Cavalieri
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Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Viterbo, some north of Rome. She lost her parents at the a ...
).
Together, they were the parents of nine children, including:
* Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (1897–1934),
who married Edwin D. Morgan Jr. (1890–1954), a descendant of
Edwin D. Morgan
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, the 21st
Governor of New York
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, a
U.S. Senator
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, and the longest-serving chairman of the
Republican National Committee
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.
* Margaret Chanler Emmet (1899–), who married Francis Harrison Kinnicutt (1875–1939).
After his death, she married John Benton Prosser in 1941.
* Christopher Temple Emmet Jr. (1900–1974)
* Hester Alida Emmet (1901–1965), who married architect John Louis Bancel LaFarge,
a grandson of artist
John La Farge
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La Farge is best known for ...
.
* Egerton Chanler Emmet (1907–1907), who died in infancy.
* Jane Erin Emmet (1908–1997)
* Winthrop Stuyvesant Emmet (1910–2001), who married four times.
* William Patten Emmet (1911–1977)
* Thomas Addis Emmet (1915–1990), who lived at
Amberley Castle
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The castle was erected as a 12th-century manor house and fortified in 1377, giving it a rhomboid shaped stonework enclosure with high curtain walls, internal towers in each corne ...
in
Sussex, England
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.
Emmet died on July 22, 1957 at his home in Stony Brook overlooking the
Long Island Sound
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.
His widow died on August 31, 1969 and after a mass at St. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church, she was buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery in
Hauppauge, New York
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.
Descendants
Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of
Edwin D. Morgan III (1921–2001),
who married Nancy Marie Whitney, the daughter of
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
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and
Marie Norton Harriman
Marie Harriman ( ''née'' Norton, formerly Whitney; April 12, 1903September 26, 1970) was an American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. She was the second wife of former New York Governor and diplomat Averell Harriman. ...
(the second wife of New York governor
W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. The son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman, he served as Secretary of Commerce un ...
). Her paternal grandparents were
Harry Payne Whitney
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Early years
Whitney was born in New York City on April 29, 1872, as the eldest son ...
and
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
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, an artist and the founder of the
Whitney Museum
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in New York City.
References
External links
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1868 births
1957 deaths
Emmet family
People from Pelham, New York
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni
Bishop's College School alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Chanler family