Background
Robert Goelet was born on September 29, 1841 in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Robert Goelet, was a prominent landlord in New York, as was his uncle, Peter Goelet.
Robert Goelet was born on September 29, 1841 in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Robert Goelet, was a prominent landlord in New York, as was his uncle, Peter Goelet.
He graduated from Columbia College in 1860 and was subsequently admitted to the Barometer
He had a brother, Ogden Goelet, who later built Ochre Court in Newport, Rhode Island. After their deaths, he inherited half their fortune. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Chemical National Bank.
Personal life
They had a son, Robert Walton Goelet, born in 1880.
His fifteen-year-old daughter, Beatrice, immortalized as a child by John Singer Sargent, died of pneumonia at the Fifth Avenue house on February 11, 1902. They resided in a townhouse located at 591 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan as well as seasonal residences in Tuxedo Park, New York and Newport, Rhode Island.
Yachting
His yacht Nahma was designed by George L. Watson and built for him on the River Clyde in 1897. Death
He died on April 27, 1899 in Naples, Italy.
He was a member of the exclusive Philadelphia Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Union Club of the City of New New York He was also a member of the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia.