Seymour L. Cromwell

Seymour LeGrand Cromwell (April 24, 1871 – September 16, 1925) a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. Three months later they were buried in France with military honors and the French Government awarded them the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Reconnaissance française."

His paternal grandparents were Mary Jane (née Kendall) Husted and Seymour Legrand Husted, one of the wealthiest men in Brooklyn who served as president of the Brooklyn City Railroad and of the Dime Saving Bank.

Cromwell received his education at Harvard College and the University of Berlin. Cromwell, a member of the Exchange since 1896, had previously been on the Board of Governors of the Exchange since May 1914. While president of the Exchange, he was focused on ways to end stock swindles, and was noted "for his campaign against bucket shops."

Later career After his retirement from the presidency of the Exchange, he focused on his own business as a partner in the firm of Strong, Sturgis & Co., with offices as 11 Wall Street. A descendant of prominent merchant Stephen Whitney, she was a daughter of Stephen Suydam Whitney and Josephine (née Thomson) Whitney. Together, they were the parents of four sons:

Frederic Cromwell (1900–1973), who married Caroline Cooper Prentice (1901–1957) in 1923. They divorced in 1925 and he remarried Cornelia Livingston (1903–1975), a daughter of Goodhue Livingston, in 1927. In 1947, they too divorced, and in 1948 he married Iris Barnett Lyon. Seymour Legrand Cromwell Jr. (1902–1965), who married Leta Clews (1912–1991), a grandniece of Henry Clews, in 1936. They divorced and he remarried to Olivia (née Morgan) Knight (1916–1972), the widow of Harry Hall Knight, in 1951. Whitney Cromwell (1904–1930), who died of pneumonia while on vacation in Tunisia at the age of 25. A graduate of Harvard, he was studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before his death. John Cromwell (1914–1979), an actor and playwright who made his Broadway debut in 1935 in the play The Old Maid.

In New York City, they resided at 169 East 74th Street (previously at 8 East 53rd Street), and had a country estate in Mendham, New Jersey that was gifted to Cromwell in 1892 by his father. The 112-acre estate featured a forty-seven room Georgian-style mansion in Somerset Hills, New Jersey. for $50,000, and later moved to 993 Park Avenue. at the age of 54, after he was thrown from a horse while riding near Bernardsville. The Exchange closed so members could attend his services at St. Bartholomew's Church, followed by burial at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. His wife inherited his whole estate. After his death, his widow "maintained her civic commitments, supporting women's issues as well as national and local unemployment relief efforts" before her death on May 15, 1959. She was the first woman to serve on the New Jersey State Board of Education and the first on the New Jersey State Hospital Board.

Descendants Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of champion oarsman Seymour Legrand Cromwell II (1934–1977), a Princeton graduate and naval architect who helped the United States win a silver medal in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.