George Henry Warren

George Henry Warren (November 18, 1823 – April 8, 1892)[1] was a prominent American lawyer who was one of the founders of the New York Metropolitan Opera.

George Henry Warren
Born(1823-11-18)November 18, 1823
Troy, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 8, 1892(1892-04-08) (aged 68)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma materUnion College
OccupationLawyer
Known forCo-founder of New York Metropolitan Opera
Spouse(s)
Mary Caroline Phoenix
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(m. 1851⁠–⁠1892)​
Children9, including George, Whitney, Lloyd
Parent(s)Nathan Warren
Mary Bouton Warren
RelativesJoseph M. Warren (cousin)
Constance Whitney Warren (granddaughter)
Robert Walton Goelet (grandson)
Edith, Lady Queensborough (granddaughter)

Early life

Warren was born on November 18, 1823 in Troy, located in Rensselaer County, New York.[1] He was a son of Nathan Warren (1777–1834) and Mary (née Bouton) Warren. Among his siblings was Harriet Louise Warren (wife of Gen. Edmund Shriver), musical composer Nathan Bouton Warren, and Stephen Eliakim Warren, a graduate of Trinity College.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Eliakim Warren and Phebe (née Bouton) Warren and his maternal grandparents were Nathan Bouton and Abigail (née Burlock) Bouton. His paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were siblings, both descendants of John Bouton, a Huguenot who came to Boston in 1635.[3] Through his paternal uncle, Stephan Warren, he was a first cousin of Joseph M. Warren, a U.S. Representative from New York.[2]

He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1843.[1]

Career

After graduation, Warren relocated to New York City and was engaged in the practice of law and in financial operations there.[3] He served as director of many large and important companies, including the Union Trust Company.[1]

He took an active interest in the direction of the affairs of the Metropolitan Opera House.[1]

Personal life
Portrait of Warren's youngest daughter, Edith, by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1885

On April 29, 1851,[2] Warren was married to Mary Caroline Phoenix (1832–1901).[4] Mary was a daughter of U.S. Representative Jonas P. Phoenix and Mary (née Whitney) Phoenix Mary (a daughter of Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City).[5] Together, they were the parents of nine children, including:

Warren died on April 8, 1892 at 520 Fifth Avenue, his home in Manhattan.[14] He was buried in the Warren Chapel at Oakwood Cemetery in Troy.[1]

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter Mary Ida, he was a grandfather of two: John Percy Coleman Alden and George Henry Warren Alden.[15]

Through his son George, he was a grandfather of Constance Whitney Warren, a sculptress and who married Count Guy de Lasteyrie, son of the Marquis de Lasteyrie and a descendant of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.[16][17]

Through his daughter Harriette, he was a grandfather of Robert Walton Goelet (1880–1941), a financier and real estate developer.[18][19]

Through his daughter Edith, he was a grandfather of author Edith Starr Miller (1887–1933),[20] who married Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough in 1921 (after the death of his first wife, Pauline Payne Whitney).[21] Edith co-wrote Occult Theocrasy,[22]

References
  1. "George Henry Warren" (PDF). The New York Times. April 9, 1892. Retrieved 2010-07-25. George Henry Warren, for many years one of the best-known financial men in New York died yesterday at his home, 520 Fifth Avenue, of a complication of diseases, ...
  2. 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. 1915. p. 358. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  3. Weeks, Lyman Horace (1898). Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City. Historical Company. p. 604. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  4. Moore, Jacob Bailey; Drowne, Henry Thayer (1883). Memorial Sketches of Stephen Whitney Phoenix. Press of D. Clapp & Son. p. 1. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  5. Phoenix, Stephen Whitney (1878). The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878. Priv. Print. [Bradford Press]. p. 821. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  6. "DEATH OF MRS. M.I. ALDEN.; Succumbs to Pneumonia in Washington -- Recently Attempted Suicide". The New York Times. 29 May 1899. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  7. "MRS. ROBERT GOELET DIES IN PARIS HO[E Prominent American Hostess's Death Follows an Operation for Cancer. | BODY TO BE BROUGHT HERE | Entertained German Emperor on Her Yacht Nahma--History of Goelet Real Estate Fortune" (PDF). The New York Times. December 5, 1912. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  8. "DEATH OF ROBERT GOELET | Heart Disease Causes the End Unexpectedly at Naples. | CAREER OF THE MILLIONAIRE | His Public Spirit and Benevolence Were of Material Benefit to New York and Newport" (PDF). The New York Times. April 28, 1899. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  9. "George H. Warren ... A Founder of Concern That Once Owned Metropolitan Opera's Home, Dies at 87. Kin Of Noted Architect. Graduate of Columbia and Its Law School, but Never Had Practiced. Formerly Broker". New York Times. June 4, 1943. Retrieved 2010-07-25. Warren's wife, Georgia ... Warren, died on Feb. 21, 1937. Surviving are a son, George Henry Warren, Jr.; a daughter, Constance Whitney Warren, ...
  10. New York of Supreme Court. New York Supreme Court. p. 247. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  11. "WHITNEY WARREN, ARCHITECT, 78, DIES; Designer of the Grand Central Terminal and Rebuilding of Louvain Library, Belgium HAD PRACTICAL APPROACH Specialized With His Partner, C. D. Wetrnore. in Railroad Structures, Hotels, Offices". The New York Times. January 25, 1943. p. 13. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  12. "LORD QUEENBOROUGH WEDS MISS MILLER; British Peer Quietly Marries Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Starr Miller IN FIFTH AVENUE HOME Thirty Relatives at Second Marriage of Son-in-Law of Late W.C. Whitney--Sail Soon for England. Bride's Father Gives Her Away. Lord Queenborough's Second Marriage. Widely Known Sportsman. Gallagher--Sleicher". The New York Times. 20 July 1921. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  13. "Sleep-Walk Plunge Kills Lloyd Warren; Famous Architect Falls From His Sixth-Floor Apartment in Early Morning. Suicide Theory Discarded. Victim Had Suffered From Somnambulism. Created BeauxArts Institute". New York Times. October 26, 1922. Retrieved 2010-07-25. Lloyd Warren, architect, was found dead yesterday morning in an area away below his bedroom at 1 West Sixty fourth Street. It is believed that he fell accidentally while opening the window of his apartment, which is on the eighth floor. Mr. Warren who was founder of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and a brother of Whitney Warren, the architect, ... Subject to Sleep-Walking. Not a Suicide, Says Doctor.
  14. "The Lawyer and Credit Man". Law and Credit Company. 1893: 16. Retrieved 17 March 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. New York Supreme Court, APPELLATE DIVISION - FIRST DEPARTMENT.: CORNELIUS POILLON, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. LOUISA M. GERRY, Defendant-Respondent. 1903. p. 30. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  16. "Miss Warren Weds Count. Few at Ceremony, Owing to Mrs. Goelet's Death". New York Times. December 20, 1912. Retrieved 2014-04-15. As first planned, the wedding was to l have been a large one, but, owing to the' recent death in Paris of Mrs. Robert Goelet, the bride's aunt, ...
  17. "Constance Warren to Wed. Her Engagement to Comte Guy de Lasteyrie Announced In Paris". New York Times. October 26, 1912. Retrieved 2010-07-25. The engagement is announced of Comte Guy de Lasteyrie, son of the Marquis and Marquise de Lasteyrie of Paris, to Constance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ...
  18. "Robert W. Goelet Dies In Home At 61. Corporation Director, Owner of Large Realty Holdings Here, Succumbs to Heart Attack. He Inherited $60,000,000. Sportsman, a Leader in Social Circles in Newport and New York, Kin of Early Settlers" (PDF). New York Times. May 3, 1941. Retrieved 2010-07-26. Robert Walton Goelet of New York and Newport, R. I., a member of one of New York's oldest and wealthiest families, died of a heart attack yesterday at his ...
  19. "Death Claims Robert Goelet Financier, 61. Outstanding Business Executive Was One of Largest Property Owners in New York City". Associated Press in the Hartford Courant. May 3, 1941. Retrieved 2010-07-26. Robert Walton Goelet, 61, of New York and Newport, R. I., a financier and one of New York's largest property owners, died today in his old brownstone house at 48th Street and Fifth Avenue, one of the few remaining private residences on the...
  20. "Lady Queenborough Dies in Paris at 45. Former Edith Stair Miller of New York Was Wed to British Baron in 1921". New York Times. January 17, 1933. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  21. "QUEENBOROUGH, 88, A BARON, ONCE M. P.; Former Cowpuncher Who Came to U. S. With £5 in Youth and Made a Fortune Dies". The New York Times. 23 September 1949. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  22. Lady Queensborough; de Shishmareff, Paquita (1931). Occult Theocrasy. Chatou, France: British American Press.
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