James T. Lee James Thomas Aloysius Lee was an American lawyer, banker, and real estate investor who was the maternal grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwiłł .Early life Lee was born in Manhattan on October 2, 1877. He was the only surviving son and eldest of ten children, six of whom lived to adulthood, born to Dr. James Lee and Mary Teresa Lee, both children of Irish immigrants. His mother was brought up in Troy, New York , His father was born in Newark, New Jersey . He met his wife when they were both teaching in Troy. His father received his M.D. at Bellevue College in 1880 at and became a doctor and later, district superintendent of New York City Public Schools . In 1898, after a year spent studying violin, Lee enrolled in the City College of New York to study engineering. In two years, he had joined Delta Kappa Epsilon and was working as a law clerk earning $6-a-week. In 1901, he graduated from City College and then enrolled in a master's program at Columbia University in political science and economics. He graduated with an A.M. degree in 1902 and then began law school, graduating from Columbia Law School in 1903.Career After graduating law school and serving as a clerk, Lee then opened his own law practice. Aware of the impending construction of the Seventh Avenue Subway , he began buying property along the proposed route which tripled in value after the Subway became a fact. By 1910, his career was focused primarily on real estate development , and was eventually responsible for building more than two hundred residential and commercial buildings. His company, of which he was president, was the real-estate focused Shelton Holding Corporation. By 1908, Lee and his partner, Charles R. Fleischmann, built the 12-story Peter Stuyvesant apartments at the corner of 98th and Riverside Drive , designed by William L. Rouse. In 1910, while living at 669 West End Avenue near 93rd Street , he built 998 Fifth Avenue , another luxury cooperative that was designed by the McKim, Mead & White architectural firm and was across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Between 1913 and 1920, he built a series of office buildings near Grand Central Terminal , the Central Building on 45th Street, the Berkeley Building on 44th Street and the National Association Building on 43rd Street , all designed by Starrett & van Vleck . In 1923, he built the Shelton Hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue , designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon , which at the time was the tallest hotel in the world at 24 stories. In 1928, he was elected to the board of the Chase National Bank and staying with them until 1943 when he began serving as president and chairman of the board of the Central Savings Bank . In 1929, he began building 740 Park Avenue , a luxury cooperative apartment building on Park Avenue between East 71st and 72nd Streets designed by Rosario Candela and Arthur Loomis Harmon of Manhattan, New York City , which has been described as "the most luxurious and powerful residential building in New York City".Personal life On October 7 , 1903, Lee was married to teacher Margaret Merritt, who had been born in New York City to Irish immigrants from County Clare , Thomas Merritt and Mary Merritt. Together, they were the parents of: Lee joined East Hampton's Maidstone Club in 1925. His wife died unexpectedly, at age 63, at their daughter Marion's home in Hewlett Bay Park in February 1943. She and her husband had been estranged for many years, but remained married. Lee died at his home, 580 Park Avenue in Manhattan, on January 3 , 1968. After a funeral at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan, he was buried alongside his parents at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, NY.Descendants Through his eldest daughter, Marion, he was the grandfather of two girls, Joan Ryan, and Mary Lee Ryan , the wife of William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil , owner of Biltmore . He also, had three grandsons through his daughter Marion. Through his daughter Janet, he was the grandfather of three girls, First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Lee Bouvier , the wife of John F. Kennedy, and Aristotle Onassis ; Caroline Lee Bouvier , the wife Michael Temple Canfield , Prince Stanisław Radziwiłł , Herbert Ross ; and Janet Jennings Auchincloss , who married Lewis Polk Rutherfurd . He had one grandson through daughter Janet, named James Lee Auchincloss. Through his daughter Margaret Winifred, he was the grandfather of Anne C. d'Olier and Winifred Lee d'Olier, who married prominent investment banker Anthony Coats Brown in 1962.
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