Alexander Stewart Webb

Alexander Stewart Webb Jr. (February 5, 1870 – January 22, 1948) His siblings included, Helen Lispenard Webb, who married John Ernest Alexandre; Elizabeth Remsen Webb, who married George Burrington Parsons; Anne Remsen Webb, who did not marry and lived with her sister Caroline; Caroline LeRoy Webb, who also did not marry; William Remsen Webb, who died unmarried; and Louise de Peyster Webb, who married William John Wadsworth in 1904.

His maternal grandparents were Henry Rutgers Remsen and Elizabeth Waldron (née Phoenix) Remsen. His paternal grandparents were Helen Lispenard (née Stewart) Webb and James Watson Webb, a former regular army officer who was a well-known newspaper owner and diplomat (serving as U.S. Minister to Brazil in 1861). His paternal great-grandfather, Samuel Blatchley Webb, served on George Washington's staff during the American Revolutionary War, and another great-grandparent was Sarah Amelia (née Lispenard) Stewart (herself the great-granddaughter of merchant Leonard Lispenard and a descendant of the Roosevelt family).

Career In 1889, Webb began his career in finance as a messenger at Lincoln National Bank. He later worked for Metropolitan National Bank becoming secretary in 1900, which merged with First Chicago Bank in 1902. Thereafter, he became the secretary of the New York Trust Company in 1902, followed by vice-president in 1904 (Otto T. Bannard served as president). (today known as JPMorgan Chase), following the Panic of 1907.

In 1908, he returned to Lincoln National Bank as president, Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.

He was a member of the St. Nicholas Society, the Empire States Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the New York Society of Colonial Wars, the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati (elected in 1912) and the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's service in the Civil War. the widow of architect William Hamilton Russell. Florence was the daughter of James W. Sands and Eliza J. Sands and was the mother of William Hamilton Russell Jr., a Harvard student at the time of their marriage, from her first marriage to Russell. Webb lived in New York City and had a home known as "The Oaks" in Roslyn, New York.

Florence's son William married Marie Johnson, the daughter of minister and financier Bradish Johnson and the grandson of industrialist Bradish Johnson.