Carlisle Norwood Jr.

Carlisle Norwood Jr. (March 5, 1846 – November 19, 1936) His father was president of the Lorillard Fire Insurance Company and was a Trustee of the Bleecker Street Bank and the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Among his siblings were Margaret Morris Norwood, Louisa Norwood (wife of Lewis Bayard Smith), Kate Norwood, and Lewis Morris Norwood.

Norwood attended Quanckenbos Collegiate School, a large collegiate school in New York, and the Mt. Pleasant Military Academy in Ossining, New York. In 1909, Norwood became partners with Thomas Leo Walsh under the firm of Norwood & Walsh, which continued after his retirement. a charitable organization in New York City of men who are descended from early inhabitants of the State of New York. He was also a member of The Metropolitan Club, the Riding and Driving Club, the Downtown Association and The Union League Club. in New York City. Together, Ethel and Carlisle were the parents of:

Eugenie Norwood, who married Theodore Cox, a divorced New York lawyer, in 1904. Josephine Hanbury Norwood (1872–), who married Joel Rathbone in 1894. Carlisle Norwood III (1873–1954) Louise Norwood (b. 1875), who married Howard Slade (d. 1927), a broker with Hornickell, Slade & Wright. Erskine Norwood (1883–1883), who died in infancy. Eugene Norwood (1886–1972)

After the death of his first wife, Norwood remarried to Ollie E. Seaman in 1918, who also predeceased him, dying in 1929. After her death, he resided, with his son Carlisle, at the Prince George Hotel on 28th Street and Fifth Avenue. He was buried at New York City Marble Cemetery.

Descendants Through his daughter Josephine, he was the grandfather of the soldier Norwood Rathbone (b. 1895), who married Elizabeth Livingston Hall, daughter of Edward L. Hall and a first cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1922.