Grant B. Schley

Grant Barney Schley (February 25, 1845 – November 22, 1917) was an American financier and clubman who was a founder of Moore & Schley.

Early life Schley was born on February 25, 1845, in Chapinsville in Ontario County, New York. He was a son of Evander Schley (1807–1898) and Olive ( Higby) Schley (1809–1888). Among his siblings were older brothers Evander Higby Schley (an agent of the American Express Co. in Geneva) and William T. Schley (a prominent lawyer who was great-grandfather of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman).

He attended the Canandaigua Academy, before becoming a clerk in the express office of Wells, Butterfield & Co. at Syracuse at the age of sixteen in 1861. Five years later, when the Adams Express Company was formed by the consolidation of various companies, Schley went to New York City to run the money order department of the firm. Martha's brother was financier George Fisher Baker, who was known as the "Dean of American Banking" and served as president of First National Bank of New York. Together, they had a townhouse at 845 Fifth Avenue (across the street from the Mrs. William B. Astor House) and a country estate in Far Hills, New Jersey, were the parents of:

Chaloner Baker Schley (1878–1917), who married Edith Maria Turner (1875–1928). Grant Barney Schley Jr. (1881–1936), who married Jane Seney Plummer in 1902. They divorced in 1922, the same year he married Jeanne Marie de Croix (1898–1969) in France. who married Ellen Habersham Rogers (1889–1965), a daughter of Col. Archibald Rogers, in 1912. Evander "Van" Baker Schley (1883–1952), who married Sophie Beverly Duer, a granddaughter of U.S. Representative William Duer, in 1931. Evelyn Baker Schley (1885–1919), who married Max Howell Behr (1884–1955), brother to Karl Behr, in 1906.

He was a member of the Union League Club, Metropolitan Club, New York Yacht Club, Jekyll Island Club, Automobile Club of America, Peary Arctic Club, the France-America Society, Essex Fox Hounds, Somerset Hills Country Club. Schley was also a member of the Agricultural Association, the Academy of Political Science, the Economic Club, and the Archeological Society. He left a gross estate worth $9,210,146 which was reduced to $5,894,715 after payments of debts and expenses.

Descendants Through his son Chaloner, he was a grandfather of Grant Barney Schley (1907–1943), who was one of four airmen killed in the crash of the bomber at Yakohl Valley, and Chaloner Baker Schley (1911–1936).

Through his son Grant, he was a grandfather of Grant Barney Schley (–1959), and Jeanne Marie Schley (1925–1969), who married Thomas Jackson Oakley Rhinelander (grandson of T. J. Oakley Rhinelander) in 1947.

Through his son Kenneth, he was a grandfather of Anne Caroline ( Schley) Stradling (1913–1992) and aviator Kenneth Baker Schley Jr. (1917–2001).