DeWitt Clinton Blair (1833-1915)
DeWitt C. Blair, President of the Belvidere Bank, New Jersey
He was born in Blairstown, New Jersey, and grew up at The Homestead. He graduated from Princeton University in 1856 and on becoming a lawyer accompanied his father on many of his business trips out west. He was President of both the Belvidere Bank and the Belvidere Water Company. In 1890, with his father and his son, he co-founded the investment bank of Blair & Co., New York, to manage their extensive railroad interests. He was a trustee of Princeton and continued his father's philanthropy, expanding Blair Presbyterian Academy. His sister was married to Charles Scribner, founder of the Publishing House Charles Scribner's Sons. In 1864, he married Mary A. Kimball. They lived between the Blair Estate in Belvidere, New Jersey; Blair Eyrie in Bar Harbor, Maine; and, their townhouse in Manhattan, 6 East 61st Street. Their first child, a son, died in infancy, after whom they had two further sons.
