Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. (July 8, 1858 – April 21, 1913) was an American merchant and businessman who was prominent in New York society.
Hugh D. Auchincloss Sr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. July 8, 1858 Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | April 21, 1913 (aged 54) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Burial place | Oak Lawn Cemetery Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Spouse |
Emma Brewster Jennings
(m. 1891) |
| Children | Esther Judson Blitz Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr. Annie Burr Lewis |
| Parent(s) | John Auchincloss Elizabeth Buck Auchincloss |
| Relatives | See Auchincloss |
Early life
editHugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr. was born on July 8, 1858, at his father's summer home in Newport, Rhode Island.[1] He was a younger son of John Auchincloss (1810–1876)[2][3] and Elizabeth (née Buck) Auchincloss (1816–1902).[4] Among his seven siblings were Sarah Ann Auchincloss (wife of Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet), William Stuart Auchincloss, Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (who married Maria LaGrange Sloan), Frederic Lawton Auchincloss, and railroad executive John Winthrop Auchincloss (who married Joanna Hone Russell). His father was the senior member of John & Hugh Auchincloss.[2] His first cousins included Hugh Auchincloss Brown, electrical engineer and advocate of the cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis.[5][6]
His paternal grandparents were Ann Anthony (née Stuart) Auchincloss and Hugh Auchincloss, who emigrated from Paisley, Scotland in 1801 and became a merchant in 1805. His mother, a descendant of Massachusetts Bay Colony Gov. Thomas Dudley,[1] was a daughter of Gurdon Buck and Susannah (née Manwaring) Buck who had a mansion in Liberty Street in Manhattan. His maternal uncle was Dr. Gurdon Buck.[7] After preparing for college at the Collegiate Institute of Morris W. Lyon,[1] Auchincloss graduated from Yale University in 1879.[8]
Career
editFollowing his graduating from Yale, he began working for Muir & Duckerworth, cotton brokers in Savannah, Georgia, remaining with them for two years.[1] In January 1882, he went into business with his brother John Winthrop Auchincloss, in the firm of Auchincloss Brothers (the business originally started by his grandfather and was known as John & Hugh Auchincloss.), as dry goods commission merchants in New York City.[1] Auchincloss retired from business in 1891 to "devote himself to managing private companies in mining, manufacturing, transportation, as well as banking and other interests."[1] He was also a director of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Bank of the Manhattan Company, the Bowery Savings Bank, and the Consolidated Gas Company.[8]
Auchincloss was a member of the Yale Alumni Association, the University Club of New York, the Metropolitan Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Century Association, and the New England Society and Saint Andrew's Society.[8]
Personal life
editOn November 19, 1891, Auchincloss was married to heiress Emma Brewster Jennings (1861–1942), a daughter of Oliver Burr Jennings, one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil.[9] Together, they were the parents of three children, two daughters and a son:[8]
- Esther Judson Auchincloss (1895–1986), who married Edmund Witherell Nash (1896–1947) in 1917.[10] They divorced in 1929,[11] and she married Norman Blitz in 1930.[12]
- Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (1897–1976), who married Maria Nikolayevna de Chrapovitsky (1899–1990) in 1925.[13] They divorced in 1932,[14] and he married Nina S. Gore (1903–1978) in 1935.[15] They too divorced in 1941 and he married Janet Lee Bouvier (1907–1989), mother of Lee Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in 1942.
- Annie Burr Auchincloss (1902–1959),[16] who married Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895–1979) in 1928.[17][18]
Auchincloss died at 33 East 67th Street, his home in Manhattan on April 21, 1913, and was buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Fairfield, Connecticut.[8] His widow died in 1942.[9] His widow's $5,000,000 estate was divided among their three children.[19]
Descendants
editThrough his son Hugh, he was a grandfather of Nina Gore Auchincloss (b. 1937)[20] and Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985).[21]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f University, Yale (1915). Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University ... Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Alumni. The University. pp. 449–450. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ a b "OBITUARY NOTES; John Auchincloss". The New York Times. 29 June 1876. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "FUNERAL OF MR. JOHN AUCHINCLOSS". The New York Times. 1 July 1876. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Mrs. Elizabeth Auchincloss". The New York Times. 28 October 1902. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Krebs, Albin (1975-11-11). "Hugh Brown, Who Cited Peril From Polar Ice Cap, Dies at 96". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ Auchincloss, Joanna Russell (1957). John and Elizabeth (Buck) Auchincloss : their descendants and their ancestry. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Freeport, Me. : Dingley Press, 1957.
- ^ "NYAM lecture by Dr. Blair O. Rogers, Professor of Clinical Surgery at New York University School of Medicine". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- ^ a b c d e "HUGH D. AUCHINCLOSS DIES.; Apoplexy Ends Life of Well-Known Merchant". The New York Times. 22 April 1913. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ a b "MRS. AUCHINCLOSS: PHILANTHROPIST, 80; Widow of Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Merchant, Dies in Home at Fairfield, Conn. AARON BURR DESCENDANT Contributed $25,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital Here -- Active in Garden Club". The New York Times. 12 September 1942. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- ^ "EDMUND W. NASH SR., RETIRED BROKER HERE". The New York Times. 28 July 1947. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (7 September 1929). "DIVORCES EDMUND W. NASH.; Wife Wins Decree at Reno, Despite Broker's Trip There by Plane". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "MRS. ESTHER A. NASH WED.; Daughter of Late H.D. Auchincloss Married to Norman Biltz". The New York Times. 3 June 1930. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "A Son to Mrs, Hugh D. Auchincloss". The New York Times. September 18, 1927. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (15 April 1932). "MRS. H.D. AUCHINLOSS IN RENO FOR DIVORCE; Former Maya de Chrapovitsky Will Charge Incompatibility -- Wed Here in 1925". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Hugh Auchincloss Marries in Capital". The New York Times. October 9, 1935. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (10 May 1959). "MRS. LEWIS DEAD; SERVE RED CROSS; Headed Voluntary Services in World War II -- Curator at Lewis-Walpole Library". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Auchincloss -- Lewis". The New York Times. 12 October 1927. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "ANNIE AUCHINCLOSS WEDS W.S. LEWIS; Ceremony in Madison Av. Presbyterian Church Performed by Rev. Dr. Coffin. HAPPIE BEDFORD A BRIDE Wed to Joseph Harvey Ladew bythe Rev. Dr. Norwood in Chapelof St. Bartholomew's". The New York Times. 26 January 1928. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (20 September 1942). "AUCHINCLOSS WILL FILED; $5,000,000 Estate to Be Divided Among Three Children". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "For Gore Vidal, a Final Plot Twist". The New York Times. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ "Janet Rutherfurd Dies at 39; Half-Sister of Mrs. Onassis". The New York Times. March 21, 1985. Retrieved October 13, 2017.