Carlisle Norwood Jr.
28th President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York
In office
1887–1887
Preceded byCornelius Vanderbilt II
Succeeded byJohn Cruger Mills
Personal details
Born(1846-03-05)March 5, 1846
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 19, 1936(1936-11-19) (aged 90)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse(s)
Ethel Josephine Hanbury
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(m. 1871; died 1918)​

Ollie E. Seaman
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(m. 1918)​
Parent(s)Carlisle Norwood
Louisa Josephine Willcocks Norwood
Alma materMt. Pleasant Military Academy

Carlisle Norwood Jr. (March 5, 1846 – November 19, 1936)[1] was an American lawyer.

Early life

Norwood was born on March 5, 1846, in Manhattan, New York. He was the son of Carlisle Norwood (1812–1892) and Louisa Josephine (née Willcocks) Norwood (1816–1891) who married in 1841.[2] His father was president of the Lorillard Fire Insurance Company and was a Trustee of the Bleecker Street Bank and the Manhattan Life Insurance Company. Among his siblings were Margaret Morris Norwood, Louisa Norwood (wife of Lewis Bayard Smith), Kate Norwood, and Lewis Morris Norwood.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Rebecca (née Ogilvie) Norwood and the merchant Andrew Sickles Norwood,[3] a close friend of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who was one of the originators and owners of the second line of packet ships between New York and Le Havre.[2] His maternal grandparents were Lewis Willcocks and Margaret (née Morris) Willcocks, a daughter of Andrew Morris and a direct descendant of Lewis Morris, an early Colonial Governor of New Jersey.[1] His maternal aunt, Margaret (née Willcocks) Cecilia Mel de Fontenay, was the wife of John Mel de Fontenay.[4]

Norwood attended Quanckenbos Collegiate School, a large collegiate school in New York,[5] and the Mt. Pleasant Military Academy in Ossining, New York.[1]

Career

Norwood was admitted to the bar in New York on April 30, 1867, at the age of twenty-one, practicing for fifty-four years until his retirement in 1921, and was known as a jury lawyer and "expert on cross-examination."[1] Throughout his many years in practice, he was partners with various attorneys, including Marshall S. Marden, Edwin Coggeshall for fifteen years (later president of the Lawyers Title and Guaranty Company), and Charles H. Dilly for ten years.[6] In 1909, Norwood became partners with Thomas Leo Walsh under the firm of Norwood & Walsh, which continued after his retirement.[1]

In 1887, he succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt II to become the 28th President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York,[7] a charitable organization in New York City of men who are descended from early inhabitants of the State of New York.[8] He was also a member of The Metropolitan Club, the Riding and Driving Club, the Downtown Association and The Union League Club.[1]

Personal life

In 1871, Norwood was married to Ethel Josephine Hanbury (1850–1918)[9] in New York City. Together, Ethel and Carlisle were the parents of:[10]

  • Eugenie Norwood, who married Theodore Cox, a divorced New York lawyer, in 1904.[11]
  • Josephine Hanbury Norwood (1872–c. 1935), who married Joel Rathbone in 1894.[12]
  • Carlisle Norwood III (1873–1954)
  • Louise Norwood (b. 1875), who married Howard Slade (d. 1927), a broker with Hornickell, Slade & Wright.[13]
  • Erskine Norwood (1883–1883), who died in infancy.
  • Eugene Norwood (1886–1972)[3]

After the death of his first wife, Norwood remarried to Ollie E. Seaman in 1918, who also predeceased him, dying in 1929.[14] After her death, he resided, with his son Carlisle, at the Prince George Hotel on 28th Street and Fifth Avenue.[1]

Norwood died at the New York Hospital on November 19, 1936.[1] He was buried at New York City Marble Cemetery.

Descendants

Through his daughter Josephine, he was the grandfather of the soldier Norwood Rathbone (b. 1895),[15] who married Elizabeth Livingston Hall, daughter of Edward L. Hall and a first cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1922.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "CARLISLE NORWOOD IS DEAD HERE AT 90; Retired Attorney Had Been in Practice for 54 Years-Noted Jury Lawyer. CITY LEADERS HIS CLIENTS Formerly Headed St. Nicholas Society -- Was Descendant of Colonial Governor" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 November 1936. p. 23. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "OBITUARY -- CARLISLE NORWOOD". The New York Times. 14 Jan 1892. p. 5. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: history, customs, record of events, constitution, certain genealogies, and other matters of interest. v. 1-. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1916. p. 37. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  4. ↑ Society, United States Catholic Historical (1928). Historical Records and Studies. United States Catholic Historical Society. p. 124. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  5. ↑ James, Henry (2011). A Small Boy and Others: A Critical Edition. University of Virginia Press. p. 171. ISBN 9780813930893. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  6. ↑ Yearbook of the New York City Bar Association. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 1937. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Late William M. Vermilye" (PDF). The New York Times. 25 June 1878. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  8. ↑ Youngs, Florence Evelyn Pratt; Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1914). Portraits of the Presidents of The Society, 1835-1914. New York, NY: Order of the Society. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "NORWOOD". New-York Tribune. 24 Jan 1918. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  10. ↑ "NORWOOD FAMILY IN BATTLE OVER $500,000 FUND -- Old New Yorkers May Bare Family's Secrets When Case is Tried. TWO CHILDREN SUE Papers Reveal Row of Long Standing in Lawyer's Household". The Evening World. 19 Feb 1920. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  11. ↑ "THEODORE COX MARRIES AGAIN; One Clergyman Refused to Act Because of Lawyer's Divorce" (PDF). The New York Times. March 13, 1904. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  12. ↑ "Rathbone--Norwood". The New York Times. 5 Oct 1894. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  13. ↑ Register of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. The Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York. 1913. p. 206. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  14. ↑ "VACATION RUSH BLAST FATAL TO SOCIETY MATRON". Daily News. 15 Jun 1929. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  15. ↑ Cutter, William Richard (1913). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation ... Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 107. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  16. ↑ "Miss E. L. Hall Becomes Bride of Norwood Rathbone -- Daughter of Mr. E. L. Hall Married to Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Rathbone". New York Herald. 9 Feb 1922. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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