George Cabot Lee Jr.

George Cabot Lee Jr. (February 2, 1871 – October 28, 1950) was an American banker from Boston. He was the brother of Alice Hathaway Lee, the first wife of President Theodore Roosevelt.[1]

George Cabot Lee Jr.
Born(1871-02-02)February 2, 1871
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedOctober 28, 1950(1950-10-28) (aged 79)
Boston, Massachusetts
Alma materHarvard University
EmployerLee, Higginson & Co.
Spouses
Madeline Jackson
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(m. 1898; died 1920)​
    Gertrude Cramer Bartlett
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    (m. 1926)​
    Children3
    Parent(s)George Cabot Lee
    Caroline Watts Haskell
    RelativesAlice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (sister)
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth (niece)
    AwardsOrder of St. Sava

    Early life

    Lee was born on February 2, 1871, in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] He was a son of the Boston banker George Cabot Lee (1830–1910)[3] and Caroline Watts (née Haskell) Lee (1835–1914). Among his sisters were Rose Lee (wife of Reginald Gray),[4] Alice Hathaway Lee (first wife of Theodore Roosevelt),[1] and Harriet Paine Lee (wife of Charles Mifflin Hammond, who managed President Taft's campaign in California).[5]

    His paternal grandparents were John Clarke Lee, a member of the Cabot family, and Harriet Paine (née Rose) Lee.[6] Through his sister Alice, he was uncle to Alice Roosevelt Longworth.[7] His maternal grandparents were Elisha Haskell and Alice Russell (née Hathaway) Haskell.[8]

    Lee graduated from Harvard University in 1894 and served as treasurer of his class for thirty-one years.[9]

    Career

    On September 1, 1900, Lee joined the firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., which had been founded by his grandfather in 1848, and was admitted as a junior partner.[10] He later served as president of the Lee, Higginson Safe Deposit Company. When the company decided to go out of business, he settled the firm's affairs.[9]

    Lee served as a director of the Revere Sugar Refinery, the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, the United Fruit Company, the U.S. Smelting and Refining Company, and the Ponce and Guayama Railroad in addition to serving as a trustee of the Central Aguirre Sugar Company, which operated the Central Aguirre refinery Guayama.[9]

    Philanthropic works

    During World War I, Lee raised funds for the Allies and for the Red Cross, the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus among other philanthropic endeavors. Serbia awarded him the Order of St. Sava.[9]

    He also served as treasurer of the Boston Floating Hospital, was a trustee of the YMCA Boston, was a director of the Free Hospital for Women and was a fundraiser for the YWCA.[9]

    Personal life

    On November 17, 1898, Lee was married to Madeline Jackson (1878–1920), a daughter of James Jackson and Rebecca Nelson (née Borland) Jackson.[11] Together, they were the parents of three sons:[9]

    • George Cabot Lee III (1899–1970),[12] who married Kathleen Bowring Stoddart, a daughter of Lawrence Bowring Stoddart of Ewell Court, Surrey, in 1928.[13]
    • James Jackson Lee (1900–1972),[14] who married Emily Schniewind, daughter of Henry Schniewind Jr.,[15] in 1926.[16]
    • Nelson Borland Lee (1906–1967), who married Mary Flagg.[17]

    After the death of his first wife, Lee remarried to Gertrude Wylde (née Cramer) Bartlett (1878–1971), the former wife of Edwin Bartlett, in Paris in July 1926.[18]

    Lee died on October 28, 1950, at his home in Westwood, Massachusetts.[9] He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

    References
    1. "TR Center - Letter from George Cabot Lee to Theodore Roosevelt". www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    2. Secretary's Report: For the Twentieth Anniversary. no. VI. Harvard College. 1914. p. 137. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    3. "GEORGE CABOT LEE DEAD.; Banker Was Father of First Wife of ex-President Roosevelt". The New York Times. 22 March 1910. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    4. Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie (1901). A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family. R. L. Bryan Company. p. 47. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    5. "Charles Mifflin Hammond". The New York Times. 16 June 1915. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    6. Morse, Frances Rollins (1926). Henry and Mary Lee, Letters and Journals: With Other Family Letters, 1802-1860. Privately printed. p. 35. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    7. Cordery, Stacy A. (30 September 2008). Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker. Penguin. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-4406-2964-8. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    8. Class of 1850. Harvard College. 1895. p. 15. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    9. TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (30 October 1950). "GEORGE CABOT LEE, BOSTON FINANCIER; Member of Lee, Higginson & Co. for 40 Years Dies--Aided Many Philanthropies". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    10. of 1894, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1902). Secretary's Third Report. Caustic & Claflin. p. 74. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    11. Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot; Putnam, James Jackson (1907). The Hon. Jonathan Jackson and Hannah (Tracy) Jackson, Their Ancestors and Descendants. Privately printed [by T.R. Marvin & Son]. ISBN 978-0-598-99470-7. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    12. "GEORGE CABOT LEE". The New York Times. 4 October 1970. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    13. TIMES, Wireless to THE NEW YORK (11 April 1928). "GEORGE CABOT LEE JR. TO WED MISS STODDART; Bostonian Engaged to English Girl --Miss Mallett to Be Bride of F.P.M. Conger. Mallett--Conger. Exstein--Bloch". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    14. "JAMES LEE, 72, DEAD; A HUTTON PARTNER". The New York Times. 14 December 1972. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    15. "Paid Notice: Deaths WALKER, EMILY SCHNIEWIND LEE". The New York Times. 7 April 2002. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    16. "MISS SCHNIEWIND PLANS BIG WEDDING; Invitations to Be Sent Out Soon for Her Marriage to James Jackson Lee. A RECEPTION AFTERWARD Dorothy Meserve Announces Plans for Her Marriage to Philip B. Kunhardt". The New York Times. 12 March 1926. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
    17. Harvard Bulletin. Harvard Bulletin, Incorporated. 1972. p. 47.
    18. "G. C. LEE WEDS IN PARIS.; Senior Partner of Boston Banking Firm Marries Mrs, Bartlett". The New York Times. 9 July 1926. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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