# Frederic Bronson

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{{short description|American lawyer (1851–1900)}}
{{about||the Ottawa businessman|Frederic Erskine Bronson}}
{{Infobox person
| name          = Frederic Bronson
| image         = 
| caption       = 
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1851|07|20}}
| birth_place   = [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)), U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1900|03|29|1838|07|20}}
| death_place   = [Palermo](/source/Palermo), [Italy](/source/Italy)
| resting_place = [Oak Lawn Cemetery](/source/Oak_Lawn_Cemetery)<br />[Fairfield, Connecticut](/source/Fairfield%2C_Connecticut), U.S.
| party         = 
| alma_mater    = [Columbia College](/source/Columbia_College%2C_Columbia_University)<br>[Columbia Law School](/source/Columbia_Law_School)
| spouse        = {{marriage|[Sarah Gracie King](/source/Sarah_Gracie_King_Bronson)<br>|1875|1900}}
| children      = Elizabeth Duer Bronson
| parents       = Frederic Bronson<br>Charlotte Brinckerhoff 
| relatives     = [Isaac Bronson](/source/Isaac_Bronson) (grandfather)
}}

'''Frederic D. Bronson, Jr.''' (July 20, 1851 – March 29, 1900) was a prominent American lawyer during the [Gilded Age](/source/Gilded_Age) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City).<ref name="FBObit1900">{{cite news |date=30 March 1900 |title=DEATH LIST OF A DAY. Frederic Bronson |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E2DB1339E733A25753C3A9659C946197D6CF&legacy=true |access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>

==Early life==
Bronson was born on July 20, 1851, in New York City.<ref name="FBObit1900"/>  He was the son of Frederic Bronson (1802–1868) and Charlotte ([née](/source/n%C3%A9e) Brinckerhoff) Bronson (1818–1861).<ref name="Sibley1917">{{cite book|last1=Sibley|first1=Harriet (Bronson)|title=Bronson Lineage 1636-1917 {{!}} Ancestors and Descendants of Captain William Bronson of the Revolutionary War, and Other Ancestral Lines|date=1917|location=[Dallas, Oregon](/source/Dallas%2C_Oregon)|url=https://archive.org/stream/bronsonlineage1600sibl/bronsonlineage1600sibl_djvu.txt|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> He was the brother of Charlotte Troup Bronson, who married Egerton Leigh Winthrop,<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlotte Winthrop (1863-1893)|url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/charlotte-winthrop-1863-1893|website=www.nyhistory.org|publisher=[New-York Historical Society](/source/New-York_Historical_Society)|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Louisa Bronson, who married H. H. Hunnewell Jr. the son of Paris and Boston merchant banker [Horatio Hollis Hunnewell](/source/H._H._Hunnewell), and Maria Bronson.<ref name="RTnypl"/>

He was the paternal grandson of [Isaac Bronson](/source/Isaac_Bronson), and a member of the extended Bronson family, which was prominent in business and society, including his uncle, [Dr. Oliver Bronson](/source/Oliver_Bronson).<ref name="Haeger1981">{{cite book|last1=Haeger|first1=John D.|title=The Investment Frontier: New York Businessmen and the Economic Development of the Old Northwest|date=1981|publisher=[SUNY Press](/source/SUNY_Press)|isbn=9780873955300|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9DAj3x4TwL0C&pg=PA279|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name="nypl">{{cite web|title=Bronson family papers 1790-1875|url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/400|website=archives.nypl.org|publisher=[New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library)|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> His maternal grandparents were James Lefferts Brinckerhoff and Charlotte (née Troup) Brinckerhoff,<ref name="RTnypl">{{cite web|title=Robert Troup Papers|url=http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/troup.pdf|website=archives.nypl.org|publisher=[New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library)|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> daughter of [Lt. Col.](/source/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_States)) [Robert Troup](/source/Robert_Troup) and Jannetje (née [Goelet](/source/Goelet_family)) Troup.<ref name="Allen2013">{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=Cameron|title=The History of the American Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris (1815-1980)|date=2013|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=9781475937817|page=22|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQXJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>  His aunt Maria Lousia Brinckerhoff (1816–1866), was married to Robert Livingston Pell (1811–1880), a grandson of [James Duane](/source/James_Duane).<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Robert Troup Papers 1771-1870 |publisher= New York Public Library Research Collections |url=http://catnyp.nypl.org/search?/aTroup%2C+Robert+R./atroup+robert+r/-3,-1,0,B/l856~b3437148&FF=atroup+robert+r&1,1,,1,0 |access-date=2008-02-02 }}</ref>

==Career==
Morris graduated from [Columbia College](/source/Columbia_College%2C_Columbia_University) in 1870, and later, [Columbia Law School](/source/Columbia_Law_School), in 1873.<ref name="FBObitColumbia1900"/><ref name="Columbia1900">{{cite book|last1=University|first1=Columbia|title=Annual Report of President Low to the Trustees 1889/90-1900/01|date=1900|publisher=the University|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2SMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>

He was a director of the Savings Bank for Merchants' Clerks and the treasurer of the [New York Life and Trust Company](/source/The_Bank_of_New_York_Mellon), which was founded by his grandfather, [Isaac Bronson](/source/Isaac_Bronson).  He also served as a trustee of Columbia University from 1896 until his death in 1900.<ref name="FBObitColumbia1900"/>  From his election in 1893 until his death, he was a manager of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York.<ref name="Assembly1908">{{cite book|last1=Assembly|first1=New York (State) Legislature|title=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York|date=1908|pages=45–46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ms8aAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA46|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>

===Society life===
In 1892, Bronson and his wife were both included in [Ward McAllister](/source/Ward_McAllister)'s "[Four Hundred](/source/The_Four_Hundred_(1892))", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in ''[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)''.<ref name="McAllister1892">{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|access-date=5 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}</ref>

He served as the president of the New York Coaching Club, trustee of the [City Club](/source/City_Club_of_New_York),<ref name="1894Club">{{cite news|title=MR. KELLY'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.; The City Club Also Appointed Frederic Bronson to be Its Treasurer.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E0DB1638E233A2575AC0A9679C94659ED7CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=January 9, 1894}}</ref> vice-president of the [Union Club](/source/Union_Club_of_the_City_of_New_York) in 1898.  He was also a member of the [Knickerbocker Club](/source/Knickerbocker_Club), [Racquet and Tennis Club](/source/Racquet_and_Tennis_Club), Country Club, [Metropolitan Club](/source/Metropolitan_Club_(New_York_City)), [Down Town Club](/source/Down_Town_Association), Riding Club, Church Club, and [New York Yacht Club](/source/New_York_Yacht_Club).<ref name="FBObitColumbia1900"/>

==Personal life==
In 1875, he was married to [Sarah Gracie King](/source/Sarah_Gracie_King_Bronson) (1850–1931).<ref name="SGKIObit1931">{{cite news|title=MRS. ADRIAN ISELIN DIES IN HER SLEEP; Wife of Banking House's Head Is Stricken in Her 81st Year. A SOCIETY CONSERVATIVE Was a Descendant of the King, Duer and Gracie Families, Long Prominent in This City.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05E3DC143BE433A25756C0A9629C946094D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=5 April 1931}}</ref> She was the daughter of [Archibald Gracie King](/source/Archibald_Gracie_King) and Elizabeth Denning (née Duer) King, and the granddaughter of [U.S. Representative](/source/U.S._Representative) [James Gore King](/source/James_G._King) and [William Alexander Duer](/source/William_Alexander_Duer).  She was also the sister of May Denning King, who married John King Van Rensselaer, son of [Henry Bell Van Rensselaer](/source/Henry_Bell_Van_Rensselaer) and grandson of [Stephen Van Rensselaer III](/source/Stephen_Van_Rensselaer_III), the patroon of [Rensselaerwyck](/source/Rensselaerwyck).<ref name="sullivanrobertg">{{cite web|last1=Sullivan|first1=Robert G.|title=Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Rensselaer Vol. IV|url=http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/vanrensselaer-3.html|website=www.schenectadyhistory.org|publisher=[Schenectady County Public Library](/source/Schenectady_County_Public_Library)|access-date=6 December 2016|pages=1814–1821|date=1911}}</ref> Her brother, Frederick Gore King (b. 1852), was the father of [Alice Gore King](/source/Alice_Gore_King).  The Bronsons lived at 174 Madison Avenue<ref name="SR1904">{{cite book|title=Social Register, New York|date=1904|publisher=Social Register Association|page=55|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJFIAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA55|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> and had a country home, "Verna" in [Southport, Connecticut](/source/Southport%2C_Connecticut)<ref name="ghvis">{{cite web|title=Bronson Windmill|url=https://www.ghvis.com/bronson-windmill/|website=ghvis.com|publisher=Greenfield Hill Improvement Society|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> (which later became the [Fairfield Country Day School](/source/Fairfield_Country_Day_School)).<ref name="fairfieldcountryday">{{cite web|title=History|url=https://www.fairfieldcountryday.org/page/about-fcds/history|website=www.fairfieldcountryday.org|publisher=[Fairfield Country Day School](/source/Fairfield_Country_Day_School)|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of:

* Elizabeth Duer Bronson (1877–1914),<ref name="1914Obit">{{cite news|title=MRS. L. C. GRISCOM DEAD.; Wife of ex-Ambassador to Rome Succumbs in Hotel St. Regis.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06E7DA1738E633A25754C1A9679D946596D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=17 November 1914}}</ref> who married [Lloyd Carpenter Griscom](/source/Lloyd_Carpenter_Griscom) (1872–1959), the [United States Ambassador to Italy](/source/United_States_Ambassador_to_Italy) who was a son of [Clement Griscom](/source/Clement_Griscom), the shipping magnate, in 1901.<ref name="1901Wedding">{{cite news|title=GRISCOM-BRONSON NUPTIALS.; United States Minister to Persia Takes a Wife in London.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F04EFD7143FE433A25750C0A9679D946097D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=3 November 1901}}</ref> After her death in 1914, he remarried to Audrey M.E. Crosse in 1929.<ref name="1929Wedding">{{cite news|title=LLOYD C. GRISCOM TO WED IN ENGLAND; New York Lawyer Will Marry Miss Audrey M.E. Crosse of Southsea on Oct. 3. A LEICESTERSHIRE BRIDAL Ceremony to Take Place at Marston Trussell Hall, Home of the Bride-Elect's Uncle.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E1DA1530E73ABC4052DFBF668382639EDE&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=18 September 1929}}</ref>

Bronson died of [pneumonia](/source/pneumonia) in [Palermo, Italy](/source/Palermo%2C_Italy) on March 29, 1900,<ref name="Browning1911">{{cite book|last1=Browning|first1=Charles H.|title=Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families ...|date=1911|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806300542|page=353|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyik0rO0HlsC&pg=PA546-IA13|access-date=16 October 2017|language=en}}</ref> after completing a Mediterranean voyage on ''[Augusta Victoria](/source/SS_Augusta_Victoria_(1888))'', a luxury ship owned by [North German Lloyd](/source/North_German_Lloyd).<ref name="FBObitColumbia1900">{{cite news|title=Obituary|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19000330-01.2.15|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[Columbia Daily Spectator](/source/Columbia_Daily_Spectator)|date=30 March 1900}}</ref>  His funeral was held at [Grace Church](/source/Grace_Church_(Manhattan)) in [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan),<ref>{{cite news|title=Funeral of Frederic Bronson|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CEEDA1E3CE433A25753C2A9629C946197D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=20 April 1900}}</ref> officiated by [Bishop](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_New_York) [Henry C. Potter](/source/Henry_C._Potter) and he was buried at [Oak Lawn Cemetery](/source/Oak_Lawn_Cemetery) in Connecticut.<ref name="1900Funeral">{{cite news|title=FREDERIC BRONSON'S FUNERAL.; The Services at Grace Church -- Burial in Connecticut.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE7D81E3CE433A25751C2A9629C946197D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=22 April 1900}}</ref>  The honorary pallbearers at his funeral were [Frank Knight Sturgis](/source/Frank_Knight_Sturgis), [Adrian Iselin, Jr.](/source/Adrian_Georg_Iselin), Dr. [Francis Delafield](/source/Francis_Delafield), [W. Bayard Cutting](/source/W._Bayard_Cutting), [George L. Rives](/source/George_L._Rives), [Johnston Livingston](/source/Livingston%2C_Montana), A. J. Cassatt, Charles Gould, John Nish, and F. Delano Weeks.<ref name="1900Funeral"/>

His widow, then 63, remarried in 1914 to his friend, Adrian Iselin, the banker who was then 67.<ref name="1914Wedding">{{cite news|title=ADRIAN ISELIN AND MRS. BRONSON WED; Banker and Widow of Frederic Bronson Married in Rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E01E2D91730E733A25753C2A9649C946596D6CF&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=20 February 1914}}</ref>  She died in 1931.<ref name="SGKIObit1931"/><ref name="1931funeral">{{cite news|title=MRS. ISELIN'S FUNERAL.; 200 Persons of Prominence at the Services in Grace Church.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E7DE1F38E03ABC4F53DFB266838A629EDE&legacy=true|access-date=16 October 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=7 April 1931}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{find a Grave|172894053}}

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