Stephen Satterlee L'Hommedieu

Stephen Satterly L'Hommedieu (January 5, 1806 – May 25, 1875) was an American publisher and railroad executive and who served as president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company.

Early life L'Hommedieu was born on January 5, 1806, in Sag Harbor, New York. His aunt, Mary L'Hommedieu was the wife of Rev. John D. Gardiner, a Yale graduate who was pastor of the Sag Harbor Presbyterian Church. Stephen's grandfather Samuel was a nephew of Ezra L'Hommedieu, the Continental Congressman from New York. The L'Hommedieu family were descended from Benjamin L'Hommedieu, a Huguenot and civil engineer who was born in La Rochelle, France and emigrated to Southold, New York, on Long Island in 1690. which was chartered in 1846 with capital of $500,000 and was elected president of the road on July 3, 1848. The road struggled with right of way issues but eventually opened on September 22, 1851, and earned about $300,000 in its first year. Together, they were the parents of:

Tillinghast L'Hommedieu (1831–1863), a Union Army officer who was killed in battle at Pulaski, Tennessee. Sallie S. L'Hommedieu (1833–1895), who married Joseph Jermain Slocum, brother of Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, in 1854. Marie Antoinette L'Hommedieu (1836–1928), who married William Collins Reynolds (1837–1897), a son of James Lusk Reynolds, 1860. Stephen Satterly L'Hommedieu Jr. (1842–1883), an Ohio State Congressman who married Florence Symmes (1840–1927), a granddaughter of John Cleves Symmes Jr. Alma Hammond L'Hommedieu (1843–1921), who married Gen. George David Ruggles, in 1868. Mary R. L'Hommedieu (1847–1895), who married Henry Brockholst Ledyard Jr., son of Henry Ledyard, in 1867. Charles Hammond L'Hommedieu (1848–1916) Richard Henry L'Hommedieu (1850–1918), who married Angelina Catherwood Marston (1855–1944), a daughter of Thomas Marston, a woodenware merchant from Chicago.

In 1870, he commissioned Hiram Powers to create a portrait of his wife which was completed three years later, only a short time before Powers' death. His widow died in 1890.