page_title: Joseph Delafield
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Delafield / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Title:Julia Livingston Delafield. Author/Artist:Huntington, Daniel, 1816-1906 Creation Date:1873 Description:Graphic reproduction(s) with documentation of a painting. 30 x 25 in. oil on canvas.
context_page_description: Joseph Delafield was an American soldier, lawyer and diplomat.
context_section_description: On December 12, 1833, Delafield was married to Julia Livingston (1801–1882). His wife was a daughter of Margret (née Lewis) Livingston and Maturin Livingston, twice the Recorder of New York City.  Her uncle was Speaker Peter R. Livingston and her paternal grandparents were Robert James Livingston and Susanna (née Smith) Livingston (sister of Chief Justice William Smith and daughter of Judge William Smith). Julia's mother was the only daughter and sole heiress of Gov. Morgan Lewis and Gertrude (née Livingston) Lewis. Together, they were the parents of four children:
  Lewis Livingston Delafield (1834–1883), who married Emily Prime (1840–1909), a granddaughter of banker Nathaniel Prime.
  Maturin Livingston Delafield (1836–1917), who married Mary Coleman Livingston (1847–1922), a daughter of Eugene Augustus Livingston.
  Julia Livingston Delafield (1837–1914), who did not marry.
  Joseph Delafield Jr. (1839–1848), who died young.
  In 1829, he purchased around 256 acres (104 ha) of land to build a country seat, known as "Fieldston" (after a family seat in Ireland), on the Hudson River, between the southern part of Yonkers and the Spuyten Duyvil, where he built a lime kiln in 1830, providing him with a large income for several years.  In 1965, Delafield's grandson, Edward Coleman Delafield, donated the remaining 13-acre remnant in Riverdale, known as Fieldston Hill, to Columbia University, which renamed it the Delafield Botanical Garden at Columbia University.
  Delafield died of acute pneumonia on February 12, 1875 at 475 Fifth Avenue, his home in New York City.
caption: Julia Livingston Delafield, portrait by Daniel Huntington
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