Robert Goelet had a younger brother, Ogden Goelet, who married society leader Mary Rita Wilson and built Ochre Court in Newport, Rhode Island.
10 Facts About Robert Goelet
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Robert Goelet's parents lived at 5 State Street, overlooking the Battery in Manhattan.
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Robert Goelet's father was a prominent landlord in New York, as was his uncle, Peter Goelet, who was named after his great-grandfather, Peter Goelet.
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Robert Goelet's grandfather was the merchant and landowner Peter P Goelet.
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Robert Goelet graduated from Columbia College in 1860 and was admitted to the bar.
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Robert Goelet served on the board of directors of the Union Trust Company, the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, the Guaranty Trust Company, the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Chemical National Bank, which his father and uncle were instrumental in founding.
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Robert Goelet was a man of progressive ideas, and throughout his business career pursued a policy of improving his properties in a manner which would beautify the city.
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Robert Goelet was a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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Robert Goelet died of heart disease on April 27,1899, in Naples, Italy.
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Robert Goelet's widow lived for another 13 years until her death in December 1912 at her home in Paris, 46 Avenue d'Iena.