Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen

Frelinghuysen (pronounced FREE-ling-high-zen)[2] was born on September 15, 1882 in the Littleton section of Morris Plains, New Jersey. He was the son of George Griswold Frelinghuysen[3] and the former Sara Linen Ballantine (1858–1940).[4] He had one sibling, Matilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen, who did not marry.[1]

His maternal grandfather was Peter Hood Ballantine and his great-grandfather was Peter Ballantine, the prominent New Jersey brewer who founded Ballantine Brewery in Newark.[5] His paternal grandparents were Matilda Elizabeth (née Griswold) Frelinghuysen and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, a lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator and later as Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur.[6] Among his large extended family was aunt Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen,[7] (wife of Henry Winthrop Gray),[8][9][10] Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen;[11] uncle Frederick Frelinghuysen,[12][lower-alpha 1] uncle Theodore Frelinghuysen; and aunt Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen,[15] (wife of John Davis and, later, Charles L. McCawley).[15][lower-alpha 2]

After attending the Morristown School,[18] he graduated from Princeton University in 1904, followed by Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of future President Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1]

After graduating from law school, Frelinghuysen was admitted to the bar and practiced law in New York and New Jersey. He later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of Newark, New Jersey and the Morristown Trust Company.[1]

For nearly half a century, he was in the cattle business and owned a "prize herd of Jersey cattle"[1] at his Twin Oaks Farm in Morristown.[19]

On February 7, 1907, Frelinghuysen was married to Adaline Havemeyer (1884–1963).[20] She was the daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an usher at the wedding.[21] Together, they were the parents of:

• Frederica Louisine Frelinghuysen (1909–1995), who married Richard High Carleton (1908–1950) in 1930.[22] They divorced in 1936,[23] and she married Huntington Denton Sheldon in 1938.[24] They also divorced and she married, thirdly, James Thomas Emert (1907–1989) in 1942.[25]
• George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1911–2004), an interior designer.[26]
• Henry Osborn Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1916–1994),[27] who married Marian Kingsland, a granddaughter of George Lovett Kingsland and the former wife of Count Hans Christoph Seherr-Thoss.[28]
• Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen II (1916–2011), a U.S. Representative who married Beatrice Sterling Procter,[29] a descendant of a founder of Procter & Gamble,[30] in 1940.[2]

He served as president of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in Delray Beach, Florida and the Morris County Golf Club.[1]

After a long illness, Frelinghuysen died on March 11, 1959 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.[1] His funeral was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown.[19] His widow, who bred miniature poodles, died in Palm Beach, Florida in April 1963.[20]

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Sources

• Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen at Find a Grave