Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen (September 15, 1882 – March 11, 1959) was an American lawyer and banker.[1] He practiced law in New York and New Jersey and later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of Newark, New Jersey, and the Morristown Trust Company.
Frelinghuysen (pronounced FREE-ling-high-zen)[2] was born on September 15, 1882, in the Littleton section of Morris Plains, New Jersey. He was the son of George Griswold Frelinghuysen, from Dutch descent,[3] and the former Sara Linen Ballantine (1858–1940).[4] He had one sibling, Matilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen, who did not marry.[1]
After graduating from law school, Frelinghuysen was admitted to the bar and practiced law in New York and New Jersey. He later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of Newark, New Jersey, and the Morristown Trust Company.[1]
For nearly half a century, he was in the cattle business and owned a "prize herd of Jersey cattle"[1] at his Twin Oaks Farm in Morristown.[19]
On February 7, 1907, Frelinghuysen was married to Adaline Havemeyer (1884–1963).[20] She was the daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an usher at the wedding.[21] Together, they were the parents of:
Frederica Louisine Frelinghuysen (1909–1995), who married Richard High Carleton (1908–1950) in 1930.[22] They divorced in 1936,[23] and she married Huntington Denton Sheldon in 1938.[24] They also divorced and she married, thirdly, James Thomas Emert (1907–1989) in 1942.[25]
George Griswold Frelinghuysen (1911–2004), an interior designer.[26]
Henry Osborn Havemeyer Frelinghuysen (1916–1994),[27] who married Marian Kingsland, a granddaughter of George Lovett Kingsland and the former wife of Count Hans Christoph Seherr-Thoss.[28]
^Through his uncle Frederick, he was the a cousin of George Griswold Frelinghuysen II, who married Anne de Smolianinof; Estelle C. "Suzy" Frelinghuysen, who married fellow painter George Lovett Kingsland Morris; Frederick Frelinghuysen; Thomas Frelinghuysen; and Theodore Frelinghuysen.[13][14]
^"Ballantine Frelinghuysen"(PDF). New York Times. April 27, 1881. Retrieved July 1, 2008. Trinity Church, in Newark, was crowded yesterday by one of the most brilliant wedding parties ever seen in that city. Many persons were present from New-York, and nearly every section of New-Jersey was represented in the audience of 1,200 persons.