Matilda (Griswold) Frelinghuysen (1817-1889)

Mrs Matilda Elizabeth (Griswold) Frelinghuysen

She commissioned Roth & Tilden in 1888 to build her a summer house (see image) at Lenox, Massachusetts, that was afterwards maintained by three of her children. It still stands and is now the Kemble Inn.

Parents (2)

George Griswold

of New York City; Shipping Merchant of N.L. & G. Griswold in the China Trade

1777-1859

Maria (Cumming) Griswold

Mrs Maria Matilda (Cumming) Griswold

1792-1880

Spouse (1)

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen

29th U.S. Secretary of State (1881-1885) & U.S. Senator from New Jersey

1817-1885

Children (6)

Matilda (Frelinghuysen) Gray

Mrs Matilda Griswold (Frelinghuysen) Gray

1846-1926

Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen

"Lucy" Frelinghuysen, of New York City & "Gardencourt" Bar Harbor, Maine

1847-1930

Frederick Frelinghuysen

President of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey

1848-1924

George Griswold Frelinghuysen

of Whippany Farm; President of P. Ballantine & Sons Brewery, New Jersey

1851-1936

Sarah (Frelinghuysen) McCawley

Mrs Sarah Helen (Frelinghuysen) Davis, McCawley

1856-1939

Theodore Frelinghuysen

of New York City & Tuxedo Park; Treasurer of J. & P. Coats Ltd.

1860-1928