George G. Haven Jr.

George Griswold Haven Jr. (June 14, 1866 – July 21, 1925) was an American businessman.

Early life Haven was born in New York City on June 14, 1866. He was the son of George Griswold Haven Sr. (1837–1908) and Emma Walton (née Martin) Haven (1840–1873). Among his siblings was Cornelia Haven (wife of Stephen Peabody), Alice Griswold Haven (wife of John Nelson Borland), and Joseph Woodward Haven. His niece, Alice "Ella" Borland, was married to Orme Wilson Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

His father, a prominent New Yorker, came from a family that had settled in New England in the earliest times. His grand-uncle was John N. A. Griswold. Through the Metropolitan Opera, Haven became associated with such prominent New Yorkers as George F. Baker, J.P. Morgan, Otto H. Kahn and Robert F. Cutting. the daughter of Charles Roberts Ingersoll, a former Governor of Connecticut, on September 4, 1889. Together, they were the parents of:

Leila Ingersoll Haven (1890–1974), who married Gilbert Edward Jones Jr. (1888–1925). George Griswold Haven III (1892–1944), who married Elizabeth George (1896–1990) in 1925. Alice Haven (1895–1946), who married George Schieffelin Trevor (1892–1951) in 1915. They divorced and she later married William Otis Waters (1889–1940).

Two years after the death of his first wife, he married Dorothy James on February 4, 1925, the daughter of Henry Ammon James and Laura Brevoort (née Sedgwick) James. In early 1924, Haven suffered a nervous breakdown. He retired from business and began traveling in hope of regaining his health, but on July 21, 1925, Haven shot himself through the head with a revolver, at his home on Fifty-third Street, New York City. He was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery.