Edward Coleman Delafield

Edward Coleman Delafield (July 10, 1878 – April 21, 1976) was an American banker and soldier who served as president of the Bank of America.

Edward Coleman Delafield
Born(1878-07-10)July 10, 1878
Westhampton, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 21, 1976(1976-04-21) (aged 97)
Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
Alma materPrinceton University
Parent(s)Maturin Livingston Delafield
Mary Coleman Livingston Delafield
RelativesJoseph Delafield (grandfather)
Lud Kramer (grandson)

Early life

Delafield was born on July 10, 1878, in Westhampton, New York. He was a son of Maturin Livingston Delafield (1836–1917)[1] and Mary Coleman (née Livingston) Delafield (1847–1922). Among his siblings were Maturin Livingston Delafield Jr.,[2] Joseph Livingston Delafield,[3] John Ross Delafield)[4] (husband of Violetta White Delafield), Julia Livingston (née Delafield) Longfellow,[5] Mary Livingston (née Delafield) Finch,[6] Harriet Coleman (née Delafield) Carter,[7] and Eugene Livingston Delafield.[8]

His paternal grandparents were Maj. Joseph Delafield and Julia (née Livingston) Delafield. Her maternal grandparents were Eugene Augustus Livingston and Harriet (née Coleman) Livingston.[8]

Delafield graduated from Princeton University in 1899.[9]

Career

After his graduation from Princeton, Delafield went into banking and in 1914 was made vice president of the Franklin Trust Company, followed by president two years later. In 1920, the institution merged with the Bank of America. In 1930, Bank of America sold the charter for its California affiliate and name to the Bank of Italy, which had merged with the smaller Bank of America, Los Angeles in 1928, under founder Amadeo P. Giannini. In 1931, Delafield's remaining trust company merged with the City Bank Farmers Trust Company.[9]

In 1937, he became a founding senior partner in Delafield & Delafield, the investment counselling and New York Stock Exchange member stock brokerage firm. He turned management over to other family members, but returned in 1968 before officially retiring in 1970.[9]

Philanthropy

From 1946 to 1968 Delafield was the Treasurer and a member of the board of trustees of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases later known as the Sloan-Kettering Institute.[9]

In 1965, Delafield donated a 13-acre property in Riverdale, known as Fieldston Hill, to Columbia University, which renamed it the Delafield Botanical Garden at Columbia University.[9] The parcel was part of an original 256 acres (104 ha) estate purchased by his grandfather, Maj. Joseph Delafield, in 1829 and known as "Fieldston" (after a family seat in Ireland), on the Hudson River, between the southern part of Yonkers and the Spuyten Duyvil.[8]

Personal life

Delafield was twice married. In 1900, he married Margaretta Stockton Beasley (1878–1952). At the wedding, his brother, Joseph L. Delafield, was the best man, and ushers were his brother, J. Ross Delafield, his wife's cousin Percy Rivington Pyne II, Alexander M. Hadden, Princeton tennis star Mercer Beasley, III and Robert Southard. She was the niece of Moses Taylor Pyne, a grandson of Moses Taylor and of a family long associated with National City Bank. Before their divorce, Margaretta and Edward were the parents of:

  • Maturin Livingston Delafield (1901–1945),[10] a stockbroker who married Mary Pierce Lyon (1901–1986) in 1924. After his death, she married John S. Williams in 1947.[11]
  • Margaretta Stocton "Rita" Delafield (1904–1990), who married William Bergh Kip III (1905–1973)[12] in 1926.[13][14]
  • Mary Delafield (1912–1993), who married Albert Ludlow Kramer Jr. (1907–1971) in June 1931.[15] They divorced in 1935.[16]

In 1928, he remarried to Clelia C. Benjamin (1903–1995).[17] Clelia, a college friend of his daughter Margaretta, was the daughter of Baroness Rachele Maria Carolina "Carina" (née de Saint Seigne) Benjamin of Florence and Walter Romeyn Benjamin, publisher of The Collector, a journal of autographs and history. Clelia's sister Mary was married to Harold Gould Henderson, her grandfather was Park Benjamin Sr. and her uncle was Park Benjamin Jr.

Delafield died at his home in Sarasota, Florida on April 21, 1976.[9]

Descendants

Through his son Maturin, he was a grandfather of Mary Lyon (née Delafield) Hoddick (1931–2005) and Maturin Livingston Delafield (1933–2007).

Through his daughter Mary,[16] he was a grandfather Albert Ludlow Kramer III, the Secretary of State of Washington from 1965 to 1975.[18]

References
  1. "MATURIN L. DELAFIELD DIES. Retired New York Merchant and Union Club Member was 81" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 November 1917. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  2. "MATURIN L. DELAFIELD DIES IN LAUSANNE; Member of Old New York Family Had Long Lived Abroad--WellKnown Among Botanists" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 December 1929. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. "JOSEPH L. DELAFIELD DEAD. Lawyer and Member of an Old New York Family Dies at 51" (PDF). The New York Times. 21 November 1922. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. "Deaths. Delafield" (PDF). The New York Times. 10 April 1964. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  5. "Mrs. Longfellow, Clubwoman, Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 September 1963. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  6. "Mrs. Edward Finch, Led Charity Groups" (PDF). The New York Times. 26 January 1961. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  7. "MISS DELAFIELD ENGAGED.; Youngest Daughter of Family Will Become Mrs. Jarvis P, Carter" (PDF). The New York Times. 9 September 1905. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  8. Bergen, Tunis Garret (1915). Genealogies of the State of New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 796–803, 833. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  9. Bamberger, Werner (23 April 1976). "Edward C. Delafield, 98, Dead; Donated Estate to Columbia U." (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  10. "M.L. DELAFIELD, 44, STOCKBROKER, DEAD; Member of Wall Street Firm-- Board Chairman of the Kansas City Southern" (PDF). The New York Times. 16 August 1945. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  11. "MRS. DELAFIELD MARRIED; Former Mary Lyon Is Bride of John.S. Williams Here" (PDF). The New York Times. 4 May 1947. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  12. "William Bergh Kip" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 February 1973. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  13. "MISS DELAFIELD TELLS PLANS FOR WEDDING; Marriage to William B. Kip on June 19 at Riverdale Will Be Followed by a Breakfast" (PDF). The New York Times. 12 June 1926. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  14. "MISS DELAFIELD TO MARRY TODAY; Her Wedding to William Bergh Kip to Take Place in Christ Church, Riverdale. TO BE BRIDE OF COUNT Teresa Higginson to Wed Giangiulio Rucellai in Lenox -- Emmeline Grace's Nuptial" (PDF). The New York Times. 19 June 1926. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  15. "MARY DELAFIELD HAS CHURCH BRIDAL; Banker's Daughter Is Married to Albert Ludlow Kramer Jr. in Riverdale, N. Y. UNION OF OLD FAMILIES Bride's Sister Is Matron of Honor-- Wedding Procession Passes Through Floral Lane". The New York Times. 21 June 1931. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  16. "BRENDA FISKE IS WED IN HOME OF MOTHER; Attended by Sister at Bridal to A. Ludlow Kramer Jr". The New York Times. 15 May 1940. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  17. "E.C. DELAFIELD WEDS AFTER RENO DIVORCE; Banker Married Yesterday in Greenwich, Conn., to Miss Clelia Benjamin. HIS SON ACTS AS BEST MAN Bride's Sister Her Bridesmaid-- New Mrs. Delafield Once Played With Bertha Kalich" (PDF). The New York Times. 5 February 1928. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  18. Kaiman, Beth (April 14, 2004). "A. Ludlow 'Lud' Kramer, 1932-2004: Former secretary of state acted on his sense of justice". Seattle Times. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
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