About Albert Carlton Bostwick
Lived 1878 – 1911 (aged 33). Albert Carlton Bostwick was an American athlete.
Albert Carlton Bostwick (June 22, 1878 – November 10, 1911) His father was a founding partner of Standard Oil and a major shareholder and President of the New York and New England Railroad, a substantial shareholder in the Housatonic Railroad, and a member of the New York Cotton Exchange. His two sisters were Nellie Ford Bostwick, who married twice, and Frances Evelyn "Fannie" Bostwick, who married four times, including to Dr. Serge Voronoff.
His maternal grandparents were Smith Reed Ford and Frances Lee (née Fox) Ford. His paternal grandparents were Abel Bostwick and Sally (née Fitch) Bostwick.
He was an "enthusiastic horseman and yachtsman, and fond of automobiling." Bostwick was a member of the New York Yacht Club, the American Yacht Club, a former Commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, With his automobile, Bostwick set several land speed records in the United States and Europe.
Bostwick owned Limited, a 46-foot steam yacht and Vergemere, a 315-foot auxiliary schooner. by the Rev. Dr. David H. Greer at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City. Marie was the daughter of Sophia Isaacs (née Lockwood) Stokes and Henry Bolter Stokes, president of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Her sister, Florence Lockwood Stokes, was married to F. Ambrose Clark (a son of Alfred Corning Clark and grandson of Edward Cabot Clark). Together, they lived at 801 Fifth Avenue (in a residence adjoining his mother) and were the parents of: She married W. T. Sampson Smith, grandson of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson. She later married Joseph Campbell, the 4th Comptroller General of the United States. Albert C. Bostwick Jr. (1901–1980), a thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder whose horse Mate won the 1931 Preakness Stakes. He married Eleanor P. Sage in 1937. Lillian Bostwick (1906–1987), an owner of Thoroughbred steeplechase racehorses who won the American Grand National eight times and who married Ogden Phipps. Dunbar Wright Bostwick (1908–2006), the chairman of the Aviation Instrument Manufacturing Corp. who was a standardbred horse breeder. He married Electra Webb, a daughter of Electra Havemeyer Webb and James Watson Webb II, granddaughter of Lila Vanderbilt Webb.
After a two-week illness, Bostwick died at the home of his mother, 800 Fifth Avenue in New York City, on November 10, 1911. After his death, his widow remarried to Fitch Gilbert Jr., a Harvard and Columbia Law School graduate and farmer, in 1914.
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