Field was born on May 2, 1814, at the Field home inYorktown inWestchester County.[2] He was one of three sons born to Hazard Field (1764–1845) and his second wife, Mary (née Bailey) Field (1780–1832),[3] who married in 1806.[4] His father was previously married to Frances "Fanny" Wright June.[5]
His paternal grandparents were John Field and Lydia (née Hazard) Field,[6] who had sixteen children, of which his father Hazard was the oldest.[5]
After schooling in Westchester and atNorth Salem Academy, he moved to New York and entered the mercantile business of his uncle, Hickson W. Field (grandfather of Princess di Triggiano Brancaccio,[7] lady in waiting to theQueen of Italy),[8][9] at170-176 John Street. At the age of 18, Field became a partner in 1832. After his uncle retired in 1838, Field assumed control of the entire business, rapidly gaining "both fortune and fame."[10] Field eventually retired from the business, which his son Cortlandt joined in 1861, and renamed Cortlandt de P. Field & Co. in 1865.[5] He fully retired from business in 1875.[11]
Cortlandt de Peyster Field (1839–1918),[15] who married Virginia Hamersley (d. 1920), sister ofJ. Hooker Hamersley.[16]
Florence Van Cortlandt Field (1851–1922), who married David Wolfe Bishop (1833–1900), the inheritor ofCatharine Lorillard Wolfe's wealth.[17] After Bishop's death, she remarried to marriedJohn Edward Parsons, a distinguished lawyer in New York.[13][18][19]
Through his daughter Florence, he was the grandfather ofCortlandt Field Bishop, a pioneer aviator, balloonist, book collector, and traveler.[21] and David Wolfe Bishop Jr.[22]
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