The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-30
MUCH INTEREST
IN DIVORCE CASE
First One In History of the Goe-
let Family Is Filed

y uled by Mrs. Robert Goelet, agains
p her husband continues to be the stapl,
Q topic OF discussion in society circles
e The Astors. the ioulus, tie Vanderbilt,
. all OF tiese grea. New FORK famil-
les of wealth anu s"'iai ruminence
nave igarcl more on less frequently
% i'm the divorce ,ol rts On the other
p hand the Gorlets, whu nave beCr num-
bered among New Ycrls wcalthiest
families Tor three generations and
whose social stUrdinE Is @. the very
highest, have never before Insured in a
! divorce proce -Ging
As land nVEers the Coclets are
among the earliest in Sew ECrk. Not
only that, but they have leen among
the larges; oWnoIs ever sI c, records
OF ownership have been Aept. Like
the .Astors and a good many ether fam
HES, th,y have prrspered through the
growth - Nv York tar rEh many
generations More than ,cItGry ago,
history shows. the ,irelets Lad an idea
that New York would lio, into a
great city ana mat C.llu' planted in
Well located property would produce
more dollars. That idea was handed
from fatte. Co. SON ,,'tn 80, result that
each successive GpClet while ,ctaining
intact the property given Him 10y his
Ian'eCedeuts, yddcd sIntethin,i l. il un-
I'll today, with the .n'es;m,I.:s Of gem
Icra.ons AZ If greater value tfdn ever
before and producing large returns,
the posscsS"r of item 1as an estate
which even 81 kluS CT an emperor
might envy
There IS nothing sordid tbout the
! Goelet estate as there Is about some Of
/ the other tlClt fortunes founded on
! Nanhat: n property. In the history of
! the family dating back h ld,o there
! ls NO record II Deliberate attempts 10y
members of lie family o. despoll a
/ man of his property no record of
| hilIhtne fore 1rurcs after well laid
| plans had a"vcl"pcd L. take il by foul
( means j. fair W"u'j not avail
On Tax Rolls In 17se.
The Joint management If the great
| Goo,et holdings and the frequent re-
rlrrenc" Of the family names OF og-
den, Peter and Robert make the story
of the family one of the most intri-
cate OF all those written in the records
of Manhattan. The story can be told
completely only by searching some OF
the earliest records, for the beginning
is in the seventeenth century with the
arrival of lluguenot refugees. Many
OF the pieces OF property now held
a.
traced back as far as the available rec
ords go without showing any change Of
ownership at all except for the trans
fer from father 10 son and from father
20 son. The earliest actual record
tending 10 show that the Goelets APP |
preeIated the value of Manhattan real
estate more than a century ago bears |
the date OF 1893, al which time one !
Peter Goelet appears on the tax rolls !
as owning house in Pearl street
This Peter Goelet was Of the third |
generation of the family in America |
and it was with him that the present
day fortune started. IL was a dealer
I'm musical Instruments, and in his day |
was q man Of opulcGce His son, Peter
=. Goelet, inherited all Of has fathers |
property and by steadily adding 10 it /
during his lifetime, was able at his !
death TO give 20 his children including |
two SONS Peter and Robert, the larg- |
est fortune in real estate of that time |
Another OF his children, Hannah, mar
ricd a Gerry and from that union starts |
the Gerry fortune iu real estate, also |
among the great ones Of the present I,
day. Peter and Robert Guclet cOntin- |
ucG the policy Of their father of i'm
pcsling heavily in New York real es-
tate. The brothers were closely assoc
ciatcd throughout their lives Peter
never married but Robert took for "A
wife the dauyhtc~ of Jonathan ogden |
Their sons we're Robert l;uclet, father |
of the present holder of the great es-
tate Robert Walton GoeIct, and ogden |
Go.Ict father ST Robert tioelet, who is |
now being sued for divorce. and the |
Duchess of Roxburghe.
Robert GoeIet YOUNG Man.
Robert Goclet died i'm 1899 on board |
aI. supcrh Yacht. the MAMMA, while |
10 was lying in the harbOr of Naples. |
STRANGELY enough ogden Goelet his