Anton A. Raven

Anton Adolph Raven (September 30, 1833 – January 15, 1919) was a Curaçaoan-born American business executive.

Early life

Raven was born on September 30, 1833, in Curaçao in what was then a part of the Dutch West Indies. He was a son of John Rudolf Raven, a merchant in the "Spanish-American Republic of Venezuela", and Petronella ( Hutchings) Raven, who came from "ancestors who came from Holland to New York State and thence removed to Curaçao, West Indies where she herself was born."

He also served as a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, the Atlantic Trust Company, the Home Life Insurance Company and the Phenix National Bank of New York.

Henry Hutchings Raven (1861–1862), who died young. William Oatman Raven (d. 1940), who married Angeline Odell in 1899. Caroline Elizabeth Raven, who married Peter A. MacLean. in 1930. Edith Raven (d. 1908), who died unmarried. John Howard Raven (1870–1949), a professor at Rutgers College who married Elizabeth Grier Strong, a daughter of the Rev. Selah Woodhull Strong and Eleanor Hendrickson ( Van Deursen) Strong, in 1894.

He was a member of the Montauk Club of Brooklyn, the New York Club, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was also a member, and vice president, of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor in Brooklyn, a member of the American Geographical Society

Raven died at his home in Caldwell, New Jersey, on January 15, 1919.

The Raven Glacier in Greenland was named in his honor.