Robert and Ogden Goelet brothers in the fourth generation

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The Goelet brothers - bankers and realtors

… the Goelets, who were long respectable but singularly unsocial, at least for what concerned the male descendents of the dynasty, started their entry into Society, spending generously on yachts and mansions and also making sometimes controversial but always well noticed marriages. Robert Goelet III married Harriet Louise Warren (1854-1912), a granddaughter of US Representative Jonas Phoenix and they had a son Robert Walton Goelet (1880-1941). Ogden Goelet married Mary Rita Wilson (1855-1929), the eldest daughter of Richard Thornton Wilson, a stockbroker who married his children well into New York's High Society …

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