Emily (Johnston) de Forest (1851-1942)
Mrs Emily (Johnston) de Forest; Author & Collector of Cold Spring Harbor, New York
She was the daughter and wife of two Presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She wrote and published the memoirs of her both her grandfathers: John Johnston of New York, Merchant (1909), and James Colles, 1788-1883, Life & Letters (1926). She also wrote a family history of her husband's family: A Walloon Family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his Forbears 1500-1848 (1914). She had four children.
