American family prominent in the sugar industry
TheHavemeyer family is a prominentNew York family ofGerman origin that owned significant sugar refining interests in theUnited States .[ 1]
William Havemeyer (1770-1851) leftGermany at age 15 and arrived inNew York City after learning the trade of sugar refining inLondon . In New York he managed a sugar house on Pine Street before opening his own refinery onVandam Street with his brother, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, who had come to New York in 1802. Together the two brothers operated theW. & F.C. Havemeyer Company sugar refineries, before passing the business on to their sons.[ 2] William Frederick Havemeyer , retired from the sugar refining business in 1842 and entered politics, eventually serving three terms as Mayor of New York.[ 3] [ 4]
In 1855, the family relocated their refineries toBrooklyn , where they remained as the business grew to acquire a commanding share of the United States sugar refining market under the leadership of Frederick's grandson,Henry Osborne Havemeyer . The Havemeyer refineries were incorporated as theAmerican Sugar Refining Company in 1891 and became known asDomino Sugar in 1900.[ 5] Henry Osborne Havemeyer and his wifeLouisine Havemeyer made large bequests to theMetropolitan Museum of Art and their daughterElectra Havemeyer Webb founded theShelburne Museum .[ 6] [ 7]
Havemeyer Street in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn is named after the family.[ 8]
MayorWilliam Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874) William Havemeyer (1770-1851) ∞ Susannah Clegg (1781-1838)[ 9] William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874) ∞ Sarah Agnes Craig (1807-1894)John Craig Havemeyer (1832-1922)[ 10] Charles William Havemeyer ∞ Julia Loomis[ 11] Henry Havemeyer (1838-1886) ∞ Mary Moller[ 13] Hector Craig Havemeyer (1840-1889)[ 15] Anna Margaret Havemeyer (1806-1891) ∞ Charles Burkhalter (1804-1884)[ 16] Albert Havemeyer (1814-1874) ∞ Henrietta Sherman (1818-1880)[ 18] Anne Amelia Havemeyer (1850 - 1934) ∞ Norris Woodruff Mundy (1845-1918)Norris Havemeyer Mundy (1874-1943)[ 19] William Albert Havemeyer (1843-1903)[ 20] Henrietta Sherman Havemeyer (1854-1928) ∞Charles Waldo Haskins (1852-1903) Amelia Susanna Havemeyer (1820-1859) ∞ Augustus Theodosius Geissenhainer (1814-1882)[ 22] Anna Margaret Geissenhainer (1847-1893) ∞George Goelet Kip (1845-1926)[ 23] Charles Augustus Kip (1870-1940) ∞ Marie Gilmour Bryce (1878-1940)[ 24] Elbert Samuel Kip (1874-1950) ∞ Alice Alden Bushnell (1872-1952)[ 25] Anna Elizabeth Kip (1880-1918) ∞ A. Paul Olmsted (1882-1948) 1912 Newspaper Article about the Havemeyers Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1774-1841) ∞ Catharine Billiger (1784-1876)[ 26] Frederick Christian Havemeyer (1807-1891) ∞ Sarah Louise Osborne Henderson (1812-1851)[ 27] Mary Rosina Havemeyer (1812-1885) ∞ John Isaiah Northrop[ 36] ^ "Sugar and Columbia University" .Columbia University . Retrieved11 July 2018 .^ Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer . Retrieved9 July 2018 .^ The Business World, Volume 2 . Retrieved9 July 2018 .^ "Charles F. Chandler, The Havemeyer Family, And New York City Politics" .Columbia University . RetrievedJuly 11, 2018 .^ Diamond, Anna."These Photos of the Abandoned Domino Sugar Refinery Document Its Sticky History" .Smithsonian . RetrievedMarch 19, 2018 . ^ "Who Were the Havemeyers?" .Brownstoner . September 19, 2007. RetrievedJuly 11, 2018 .^ "Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection" .Metropolitan Museum of Art . RetrievedJuly 11, 2018 .^ "Where do the Names of Williamsburg Streets Come From?" . January 25, 2019.^ Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "John C. Havemeyer Dead in 90th Year" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ The World Almanac and Book of Facts . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Dr. Loomis Havemeyer Dead" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Obituary 1" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Death List of a Day" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "H.C Havemeyer's Will" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ Roberts, Charles Rhoads; Stoudt, John Baer; Krick, Thomas H.; Dietrich, William Joseph (1914).History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 . ^ Fraternity, Zeta Psi (1900).Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America . Retrieved9 July 2018 . ^ "The Death of Albert Havemeyer" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Norris H. Mundy" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "The Death List of a Day" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ Wineapple, Brenda (January 1992).Gen?t: A Biography of Janet Flanner ISBN 0803297408 . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 . ^ "Death of a Well-Known Lutheran Clergyman" .The Reading Times . March 6, 1882. RetrievedMay 3, 2018 .^ "Society At Home and Abroad" .The New York Times . Retrieved26 February 2018 .^ "Society Enjoys Autumnal Season in the Country" .The New York Times . RetrievedMarch 19, 2018 .^ "Kip-Bushnell" .The New York Times . RetrievedFebruary 26, 2018 .^ Life, Letters and Addresses of John Craig Havemeyer . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ The World Almanac and Book of Facts . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "DEATH OF T. A. HAVEMEYER; Vice President of the American Sugar Refining Company and a Man of Large Affairs. WAS BAPTIZED WHEN DYING Called for a Priest and Was Received into the Catholic Church -- To be Buried from the Cathedral -- His Notable Career" .The New York Times . RetrievedAugust 18, 2017 .^ "Death of C.F. Havemeyer" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen Is Bride of William Blair Meyer Jr" .The New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ "Mrs. Horace Havemeyer" .The New York Times . RetrievedFebruary 26, 2018 .^ "Horace Havemeyer, 75, Ex-Head Of National Sugar Refining, Dies" .The New York Times . RetrievedFebruary 19, 2019 .^ "Horace Havemeyer III, 1942-2014" .The Architect's Newspaper . RetrievedFebruary 19, 2019 .^ "Christopher du Pont Roosevelt Fiance of Rosalind Havemeyer" .The New York Times . RetrievedFebruary 19, 2019 .^ "J. Watson Webb, Former Head Of the Shelburne (Vt.) Museum" .New York Times . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .J. Watson Webb Jr., the former president and chairman of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, whose family was among the country's pre-eminent art collectors, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 84 and had homes in Los Angeles and Shelburne. ^ The National Cyclopedia of American Biography . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .^ John Howard Northrop doi :10.17226/4560 .ISBN 978-0-309-04976-4 . RetrievedJuly 9, 2018 .
