Frederick Frelinghuysen (September 30, 1848 – January 1, 1924) was an American businessman. He was the president of the

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, for 25 years.

Early life

Frelinghuysen was born on September 30, 1848, in

. He was a son of

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (August 4, 1817May 20, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey who served as a U.S. Senator and later as United States Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur. Frelinghuysen was ...

and Matilda Elizabeth Griswold (who was of English descent). His siblings included: Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen (who married prominent merchant Henry Winthrop Gray); Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen; George Griswold Frelinghuysen; m. Sara Linen Ballantine (granddaughter of Peter Ballantine) prominent New York clubman

Theodore Frelinghuysen Theodore Frelinghuysen (March 28, 1787April 12, 1862) was an American politician who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate. He was the Whig vice presidential nominee in the election of 1844, running on a ticket with Henry Clay. ...

; and Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen (who married Judge John Davis, and after his death, Brig. Gen. Charles Laurie McCawley). His father was a lawyer who served as a

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and later as Secretary of State under President

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. 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,

. Both grandfather and adopted grandfather were sons of Frederick Frelinghuysen, the eminent lawyer who was one of the framers of the first

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, a soldier in the

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, a member of the

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, and a member of the

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. His maternal grandfather George Griswold, was a merchant in New York City who "made an immense fortune in the time of the clipper trade with China." He graduated from

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in 1868.

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

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. Her paternal grandfather was

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to the

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(whose second wife was writer

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). Together, they lived in

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, and were the parents of four sons and one daughter including: * Frederick Frelinghuysen (1903–1966), who married Elizabeth (née Lyman) Harrower, a daughter of Maj. Ronald T. Lyman and Elizabeth Van Cortlandt (née Parker) Lyman, in 1937. She was the former wife of Gordon Harrower. * Thomas Talmadge Kinney Frelinghuysen (b. 1905), a sculptor who married Roselyne de Viry, a daughter of Baron Humbert and Baroness Delphine Marie de Viry, of

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, and Shipton Court,

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(today the Seven Hills Inn), in 1949. * Theodore Frelinghuysen (b. 1907). * 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. * Estelle C. "Suzy" Frelinghuysen (1911–1988), who married fellow painter George Lovett Kingsland Morris. He died in the Post Graduate Hospital after a three-week illness in

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, on January 1, 1924. His widow died on May 13, 1931.

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