Background
Havemeyer was born in 1839 to Frederick Christian Havemeyer. Theodore became an apprentice in his father"s firm and later was made a partner working with his brother Henry Osborne Havemeyer.
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Theodore Havemeyer
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After traveling to Germany and England, in search of new advances in the sugar refining trade, Theodore constructed "one of the most modern sugar refineries in the world."
Theodore Havemeyer was also the Austrian Consul-General in New York City for twenty-five years, up until 1895. He became president of the New York Golf Club and the first president United States Golf Association, as well. Havemeyer co-founded the Newport Country Club, United States. Amateur Championship and United States. Open.
The United States. Amateur trophy, the Havemeyer Cup, is currently named in his honor.
Havemeyer married Emily DeLoosey in 1862. The family owned many estates including, a town house on Madison Avenue in New York City, a mansion on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, and 500 acres in Mahwah, New Jersey, called Mountain Side Farm.
300 acres of the Mahwah estate is currently the campus of Ramapo College of New Jersey. Havemeyer died intestate in 1897.
His funeral service was held at Saint Patrick"s Cathedral in New York and he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery.
