Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen (September 15, 1882 – March 11, 1959) was an American lawyer and banker.
He practiced law in New York and New Jersey and later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of
Newark, New Jersey, and the Morristown Trust Company.
Early life
Frelinghuysen (pronounced FREE-ling-high-zen)
was born on September 15, 1882, in the
Littleton section of
Morris Plains, New Jersey. He was the son of
George Griswold Frelinghuysen, from Dutch descent,
and the former Sara Linen Ballantine (1858–1940). He had one sibling, Matilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen, who did not marry.
His maternal grandfather was
Peter Hood Ballantine and his great-grandfather was
Peter Ballantine, the prominent New Jersey brewer who founded
Ballantine Brewery in Newark.
His paternal grandparents were Matilda Elizabeth (
née
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Griswold) Frelinghuysen and
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, a lawyer who served as a
U.S. Senator
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The composition and powe ...
and later as
Secretary of State under President
Chester A. Arthur.
Among his large extended family was aunt Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen,
(wife of Henry Winthrop Gray),
Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen;
uncle
Frederick Frelinghuysen,
uncle
Theodore Frelinghuysen; and aunt Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen,
(wife of
John Davis and, later,
Charles L. McCawley
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).
After attending the
Morristown School Morristown may refer to:
Places Canada
*Morristown, Nova Scotia (disambiguation)
United States
* Morristown, Arizona
*Morristown, Indiana
** Morristown station (Indiana)
*Morristown, Minnesota
** Morristown Township, Rice County, Minnesota
*Morris ...
,
he graduated from
Princeton University in 1904, followed by
Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of future President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Career
After graduating from law school, Frelinghuysen was
admitted to the bar and practiced law in New York and New Jersey. He later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of
Newark, New Jersey, and the Morristown Trust Company.
For nearly half a century, he was in the cattle business and owned a "prize herd of
Jersey cattle"
at his Twin Oaks Farm in Morristown.
Personal life
On February 7, 1907, Frelinghuysen was married to Adaline Havemeyer (1884–1963).
She was the daughter of
Henry Osborne Havemeyer, president of the
American Sugar Refining Company. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an usher at the wedding.
Together, they were the parents of:
* Frederica Louisine Frelinghuysen (1909–1995), who married Richard High Carleton (1908–1950) in 1930.
They divorced in 1936,
and she married
Huntington Denton Sheldon in 1938.
They also divorced and she married, thirdly, James Thomas Emert (1907–1989) in 1942.
* George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1911–2004), an interior designer.
* Henry Osborn Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1916–1994),
who married Marian Kingsland, a granddaughter of
George Lovett Kingsland
George Lovett Kingsland (September 4, 1834 – July 14, 1892) was an American merchant and railroad executive.
Early life
Kinglsand was born on September 4, 1834, in New York City. He was the eldest of eight children born to Mary (née Lovett) K ...
and the former wife of Count Hans Christoph Seherr-Thoss.
*
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen II (1916–2011), a U.S. Representative who married Beatrice Sterling Procter,
a descendant of a founder of
Procter & Gamble,
in 1940.
He served as president of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in
Delray Beach, Florida, and the
Morris County Golf Club
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.
After a long illness, Frelinghuysen died on March 11, 1959, at the
Morristown Memorial Hospital
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in
.
His funeral was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown.
His widow, who bred
miniature poodles, died in
Palm Beach, Florida
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, in April 1963.
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1882 births
1959 deaths
Peter
Havemeyer family
Princeton University alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Morristown-Beard School alumni
People from Morris Plains, New Jersey
American people of Dutch descent
American people of Scottish descent