Robert Bowne Minturn Jr. (1836-1889)
Shipping Merchant, of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., New York
He was born in New York City and after graduating from Columbia University (1856) became a partner in his father's shipping firm, Grinnell, Minturn & Co. He bought the famous clipper ship Flying Cloud which set several speed records. In 1858, he published an account of his travels while working for the family business: New York to Delhi: By way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia and China. He also became Vice-President of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad that founded the town of Minturn, Colorado, named for him. In 1861, he married Susanna, sister of Civil War hero Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, and they were the parents of six surviving children (listed). In 1895, his widow was the first American to build a villa on the riverbank near Murray Bay in Quebec, establishing a small but notable American colony made up of Stokes', Sedgwicks, Bowditches, Harlans and Olivers.
