page_title: Robert W. DeForest
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Robert W. DeForest / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Photograph; Photographs
context_page_description: Robert Weeks DeForest was an American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist.
context_section_description: DeForest married Emily Johnson, the oldest daughter of Central Railroad of New Jersey President John Taylor Johnston, in 1872 and had four children.
  He belonged to organizations including the Century, University, Grolier, Jekyll Island, and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs.
  DeForest's Wawapek Farm, a country house built in 1898 in Cold Spring Harbor and held by his descendants, was designed by Grosvenor Atterbury to follow the hill's curve in a comfortable American style distinct from the severe formality of European houses.
caption: Two of DeForest's children
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