page_title: Mary Clark Thompson
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Clark Thompson / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: China; Teapot; Ceramics
context_page_description: Mary Clark Thompson, born Mary Lee Clark, was a noted philanthropist and wife of banker Frederick Ferris Thompson.
context_section_description: While in Albany, Mary met her future husband, Frederick Ferris Thompson, son of prominent New York banker John Thompson.  The couple were married on June 17, 1857 in Canandaigua.  Frederick, his brother Samuel, and their father founded First National Bank of the City of New York (a predecessor to today's Citibank) and Chase National Bank of the City of New York (a predecessor to today's JPMorgan Chase Bank).
  Although the Thompson's principal residence was at 283 Madison Avenue in New York City, the couple spent their summers in Mary's girlhood home of Canandaigua on an estate they purchased in 1863.  The estate was named Sonnenberg (means "sunny hill" in German) when they purchased it. In 1885, they tore down the farmhouse and replaced it with a 40-room Queen-Anne style mansion.
caption: Porcelain teacup, bequest of Mary Clark Thompson to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1923
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