Douglas Robinson Jr. (1855-1918)

Real Estate Broker, of New York City

He was born at Edinburgh in Scotland and was brought up in New York. After graduating from Oxford University in England he returned to New York where he became a real estate broker and was quickly considered, "one of the leading figures in New York City realty transactions." He was President of the Douglas Robinson, Charles S. Brown Company and the Douglas Land Company. He was a director of several important institutions notably the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, the Equitable Life Assurance Company and the Astor Trust Company. After the Panic of 1907, he was appointed one of the receivers of New York's Metropolitan Street Railway Company.

In 1892, he was included within Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred" with his father and wife. He was a member of the University Club, the Riding Club, the Downtown Club and the Essex Country Club in West Orange, New Jersey. In New York City he lived at 147 East 61st Street and kept a summer home at Jordanville in Herkimer County - Gelston Castle. From 1894 "Overlook" in West Orange, New Jersey, became his permanent home and where his wife hosted lavish parties, becoming known as the "Queen of the Orange Mountain." In 1882, he married his friend Elliott Roosevelt's sister, Corinne, younger sister of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. They were the parents of four children.
Contributed by Mark Meredith on 14/02/2024 and last updated on 20/02/2024.