C. Temple Emmet

Christopher Temple Emmet (July 8, 1868 – July 22, 1957) was an American attorney and sportsman.

Early life

Emmet was born on July 8, 1868, in Pelham, New York. He was one of ten children born to William Jenkins Emmet (1826–1905) and Julia Colt (née Pierson) Emmet (1829–1908). His siblings included Robert Temple Emmet, who was awarded the Medal of Honor; Rosina Hubley Emmet, a painter who was the mother of playwright Robert E. Sherwood; William LeRoy Emmet, an electrical engineer; Devereux Emmet, a pioneering golf course architect; Richard Stockton Emmet; Lydia Field Emmet, a prominent portraitist; and Jane Erin Emmet, also a prominent portraitist who married British impressionist painter Wilfrid de Glehn.

His maternal grandparents were Josiah Gilbert Pierson and Julia Boudinot (née Colt) Pierson and his paternal grandparents were Judge Robert Emmet and Rosina (née Hubley) Emmet.

After preparing at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec, and Stevens High School, At the Mallows, he "engaged in farming." Alida was the daughter of former U.S. Representative John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor (née Ward) Chanler. Among Alida's siblings were John Armstrong Chaloner, Winthrop Astor Chanler; Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (wife of John Jay Chapman); William Astor Chanler (who married Beatrice Ashley); Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (who married Julia Lynch Olin); Margaret Livingston Chanler (who married Richard Aldrich) and Robert Winthrop Chanler (who married Lina Cavalieri). Together, they were the parents of nine children, including:

Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (1897–1934), who married Edwin D. Morgan Jr. (1890–1954), a descendant of Edwin D. Morgan, the 21st Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and the longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee. Margaret Chanler Emmet (1899–), who married Francis Harrison Kinnicutt (1875–1939). After his death, she married John Benton Prosser in 1941. Christopher Temple Emmet Jr. (1900–1974) Hester Alida Emmet (1901–1965), who married architect John Louis Bancel LaFarge, a grandson of artist John La Farge. Egerton Chanler Emmet (1907–1907), who died in infancy. William Patten Emmet (1911–1977) Thomas Addis Emmet (1915–1990), who lived at Amberley Castle in Sussex, England. His widow died on August 31, 1969, and after a mass at St. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church, she was buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery in Hauppauge, New York.

Descendants Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of Edwin D. Morgan III (1921–2001), who married Nancy Marie Whitney, the daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and Marie Norton Harriman (the second wife of New York governor W. Averell Harriman). Her paternal grandparents were Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an artist and the founder of the Whitney Museum in New York City.