Charles Lee Anthony (1820-1874)
Dry Goods Merchant & Co-Founder of the Fourth National Bank, New York
He was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut, and grew up at Providence, Rhode Island, before coming to New York. He established himself as a dry goods merchant and co-partner in the firm of Anthony, Whittemore & Clark. From 1862, he entered into business with George W. Hall an two years later helped establish the Fourth National Bank. He died comparatively young after breaking his leg descending from a streetcar. Among his pallbearers was his son-in-law's father, William H. Vanderbilt. He was the maternal grandfather of Margaret Louise Post (1876-1969) "the last Gilded Age Hostess".
