Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen I


Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen was an American lawyer and banker.

Early life

Frelinghuysen was born on September 15, 1882 in the Littleton section of Morris Plains, New Jersey. He was the son of George Griswold Frelinghuysen and the former Sara Linen Ballantine. He had one sibling, Matilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen, who did not marry.
His maternal grandfather was Peter Hood Ballantine and his great-grandfather was Peter Ballantine, the prominent New Jersey brewer who founded Ballantine Brewery in Newark. His paternal grandparents were Matilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, a lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator and later as Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur. Among his large extended family was aunt Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen,, Charlotte Louisa Frelinghuysen; uncle Frederick Frelinghuysen, uncle Theodore Frelinghuysen; and aunt Sarah Helen Frelinghuysen,.
After attending the Morristown School, he graduated from Princeton University in 1904, followed by Columbia Law School, where he was a classmate of future President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Career

After graduating from law school, Frelinghuysen was admitted to the bar and practiced law in New York and New Jersey. He later served as a director of the Howard Savings Institution of Newark, New Jersey and the Morristown Trust Company.
For nearly half a century, he was in the cattle business and owned a "prize herd of Jersey cattle" at his Twin Oaks Farm in Morristown.

Personal life

On February 7, 1907, Frelinghuysen was married to Adaline Havemeyer. She was the daughter of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company. Franklin D. Roosevelt was an usher at the wedding. Together, they were the parents of:
He served as president of the Gulf Stream Golf Club in Delray Beach, Florida and the Morris County Golf Club.
After a long illness, Frelinghuysen died on March 11, 1959 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey. His funeral was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown. His widow, who bred miniature poodles, died in Palm Beach, Florida in April 1963.