Adrian Iselin Jr.

Early life Iselin was born on October 14, 1846, in New York City. Eleanora Iselin (wife of DeLancey Astor Kane); Columbus O'Donnell Iselin (husband of Edith Colford Jones); Charles Oliver Iselin; Georgine Iselin, Emilie Eleanora Iselin (wife of John George Beresford, a grandson of Henry Beresford, 2nd Marquess of Waterford). in 1898.

"From his boyhood, Adrian had accompanied his father on his travels throughout the various mining towns, and later made such journeys alone or joined by his wife and children."

Personal life On April 4, 1872, Iselin was married to Louise Caylus (1848–1909). Louisa and Adrian lived in New York City and maintained a residence at Davenport Neck, a peninsula in New Rochelle, and together were the parents of:

Adrian Iselin III (1872–1885), who died aged 12. Ernest Iselin (1876–1954), who married Pauline Whittier (1876–1946), a daughter of Charles A. Whittier, in 1904. Therese Eleanor Iselin (1880–1958), who married Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871–1941), the United States Ambassador to Greece and Spain. Louise Marie Iselin (1888–1962), who died unmarried in France in 1962.

After Louise's death on December 4, 1909, Sarah, the widow of Frederic Bronson, was the daughter of Archibald Gracie King and Elizabeth Denning (née Duer) King, and the granddaughter of U.S. Representative James Gore King and William Alexander Duer. She was also the sister of May Denning King, who married John King Van Rensselaer, son of Henry Bell Van Rensselaer and grandson of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck. From her first marriage, Sarah was the mother of Elizabeth Duer Bronson, who was married to Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, the United States Ambassador to Italy, before her death in 1914. Iselin died on January 29, 1935, at his home, 820 Park Avenue in New York City. After a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.