Robert g. goelet biography

Biographical note

Brothers Robert Goelet () and Ogden Goelet () were the scions of a wealthy New York family that had made vast investments in real estate over several generations. Upon the death of their father Robert R. Goelet () and their bachelor uncle Peter (c), they inherited holdings throughout Manhattan. The brothers maintained the empire and expanded it to Newport as well, building neighboring homes on Ochre Point. The Goelets were very much a part of high New York society and were founders of the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Older brother Robert married Harriett Louise Warren and had two children, Robert “Bertie” Walton Goelet and Beatrice Goelet. He graduated from Columbia College in and later studied law and passed the bar. He was regarded by his peers as a wise businessman with good financial judgment. In later years, the family’s main residence was at Fifth Avenue in New York.

Younger brother Ogden married Mary R. Wilson [Mary R. Goelet] in and had two children, Mary "May" Wilson Goelet [Mary W. Goelet] (?) and Robert Goelet (). Ogden was a noted real estate investor with properties throughout Manhattan. After , the main Goelet residence in New York City was at Fifth Avenue (49th and Fifth), around the corner from a second house a

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Goelet kinsmen papers

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It appears that 9 West Seventeenth Street was a branch of learning address where Ogden's, mount perhaps his brother Robert's, paid proceeds were sent.

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Robert G. Goelet, 96, of Gardiner’s Island

Robert G. Goelet, a business and civic leader, naturalist, and philanthropist, who with his wife, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had been steward of Gardiner’s Island in East Hampton since the s, died on Oct. 8 at his home in New York City. He was

Mr. Goelet was a purposeful man of insatiable curiosity who rarely left a stone unturned or a path untaken, his family said. He was generous, self-possessed, even reserved, but also charming with a lively sense of humor, they said. He was at home in New York society, corporate boardrooms, and the natural world that he explored and cherished.

With flora and fauna of many regions around the world providing a graduate education, Mr. Goelet had a lifelong affection for ornithology and also had, as he described it in a New Yorker profile, a “weakness for insects.” He assembled an extraordinary collection of bees, which he donated to the American Museum of Natural History, and helped create a reserve to protect one of the world’s largest penguin colonies in Argentina’s Patagonia region.

As president, trustee, or benefactor, he had a broad reach and sway over the institutional life of New York City and beyond. He was president of the New York Zoological Society (now known as the Wildlife Conserva