Charles Astor Bristed Jr. (1869-1936)
of 515 Park Avenue, New York City & "Lakeside" Lenox, Massachusetts
He was born in New York City. His father died when he was five years old and he was brought up in Europe by his mother (an eccentric Catholic convert), spending the winters in Rome and the summers in Innsbruck. He was educated at the Nobile Collegio Mondragone in Rome before attending Stonyhurst and Trinity College, Cambridge (1893), in England. He served as a private Chamberlain to Popes Leo XIII, Benedict XIV and Pius X. Returning to the United States, he was prominent in society life, a selectman of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and a Republican candidate for the Massachusetts Legislature in 1907. For several years, he was Secretary of the Lenox Horse Show Association and he served with distinction in WWI in the Interpreters' Corps.
He kept an apartment in New York, a country home "Lakeside" at Lenox, Massachusetts, and for a period kept "Felseck" which he built in 1903 at Newport, R.I. He married his first wife in 1894 and after she died in 1931 he was married again the following year. He had two children by his first wife and died of a heart attack during a performance of "Madame Butterfly" in his box at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
He kept an apartment in New York, a country home "Lakeside" at Lenox, Massachusetts, and for a period kept "Felseck" which he built in 1903 at Newport, R.I. He married his first wife in 1894 and after she died in 1931 he was married again the following year. He had two children by his first wife and died of a heart attack during a performance of "Madame Butterfly" in his box at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
