Background
He was born in 1878 to Maturin L. Delafield, a son of Major Joseph Delafield and Mary Coleman.
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Edward Delafield
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Edward C. Delafield went into banking and was vice president and president of the Franklin Trust Company in 1914. In 1920, the institution merged with the Bank of America. In 1931 Delafield"s remaining trust company merged with the City Bank Farmers Trust Company.
He turned management over to other family members but he was recalled in 1968 resuming management and he retired for good in 1970.
Pyne was the grandson of Moses Taylor. Clelia was the daughter of Walter Romeyn Benjamin, publisher of The Collector, a journal of autographs and history.
Clelia"s mother Mistress Benjamin was Baroness Rachele Maria Carolina "Carina" de Saint Seigne, of Florence.
He died in 1976.
Achievements
Membership
From 1946 to 1968 Delafield was the Treasurer and/or a member of the board of trustees of Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases later known as the Sloan-Kettering Institute.
