Herbert Livingston Satterlee

Herbert Livingston Satterlee (October 31, 1863 – July 14, 1947) was an American lawyer, writer, and businessman who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1908 to 1909. He was the son of George Bowen Satterlee (1833–1903) and Sarah Brady Wilcox (b. 1836). His siblings included Marion Satterlee and Richard T. Satterlee. His second cousin was Henry Yates Satterlee (1843–1908), the first Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C.

Career Satterlee was admitted to the bar in New York in 1885, entering the office of Evarts, Choate and Beeman. Later, he partnered with George Folger Canfield and Harlan Fiske Stone, around the 1907 death of their partner, William Nivison Wilmer (the firm had been known as Wilmer, Canfield and Stone). Tracy Voorhees joined the firm in 1917; he went on to become U.S. Army Under Secretary after the Second World War. Satterlee, Canfield & Stone was a predecessor of the present-day firm Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP. He served as President of The Union League Club from 1938 - 1939.

Personal life On November 15, 1900, he married Louisa Pierpont Morgan (1866–1946), the oldest daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1910, Satterlee and his wife purchased the Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. Together, they were the parents of two daughters:

Mabel Morgan Satterlee (1901–1993), who married Francis Abbott Ingalls II (b. 1895), brother of Laura Ingalls, in 1925. Eleanor Morgan Satterlee (1905–1951), who married Milo Sargent Gibbs, the son of Milo Delavan Gibbs, in 1929. They divorced shortly after.

Louisa died at their summer home, Dover House, in the Round Hill district of Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 7, 1946. In failing health, Satterlee died by suicide with a pistol shot through his right temple at his apartment at 1 Beekman Place in Manhattan, New York City on July 14, 1947, at the age of 83.