page_title: Rufus King Delafield
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Rufus King Delafield / Personal life
context_page_description: Rufus King Delafield was an American banker and manufacturer.
context_section_description: On November 8, 1836, Delafield was married to Eliza Bard (1813–1902) of Hyde Park, New York. Eliza was the daughter of Catherine (née Cruger) Bard and William Bard, founder and first president of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company.  Among her siblings were Anne Bard (wife of Edward Prime), Susan Bard (wife of Ferdinand Sands), and John Bard (founder of Bard College with his wife, Margaret Taylor Johnston, sister of John Taylor Johnston, founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Together, they were the parents of seven children:
  Edward Delafield (1837–1884), a member of the New York Stock Exchange who married Elizabeth Remsen Schuchardt, daughter of Frederick Schuchardt (nephew of Frederick Gebhard), in 1861.
  William Bard Delafield (1838–1863), who died unmarried in Staten Island.
  Rufus King Delafield Jr. (1840–1861), who died unmarried of typhoid fever during the U.S. Civil War.
  Henry Parish Delafield (1842–1904), who married Elizabeth Blake Moran, daughter of Daniel E. Moran, in 1883. He married Marguerite Marie Dewey in 1896.
  Bertram DeNully Delafield (1844–1865), who died unmarried of an "accidental gunshot wound while hunting" in Freeborn, Minnesota.
  Catherine Cruger Delafield (1847–1926), who married John Tonnelé Hall (1831–1895) in 1871. Hall's brother, Valentine Hall Jr., was the maternal grandfather of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
  Richard Delafield (1853–1930), who married widow Clara (née Foster) Carey (1845–1909), sister of Frederic de Peyster Foster and Giraud Foster, in 1879. After her death, he married Edith Pauline Fesser (1872–1925) in 1913. He founded the firm of Delafield & Company, of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
  Like his father and brothers, Delafield established a country seat for himself, Rufus' being in New Brighton, Staten Island, where he brought the residence "to the highest state of cultivation." Today, the former Delafield estate in the Livingston neighborhood, is home to the Staten Island Cricket Club.
  Delafield died on February 6, 1874 at 253 Park Avenue in New York City, the residence of his son-in-law, John T. Hall.  After a funeral at Trinity Church, he was buried at the family mausoleum at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
caption: Eliza Bard Delafield
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