B48,25.
Laura Brevoort Sedgwick, 5th child of William Ellery Sedgwick
(B48,2) and Constance I. (Brevoort) Sedgwick, was born February
22, 1859, at Lenox, Mass., and died November 7, 1907. She
married Henry Amman James, a lawyer of New York City, who
graduated at Yale College, A.B., in 1874. They were one of the first
families to establish a summer home at East Hampton, L.I. Children,
both born in New York City (James):
1. Dorothy, b. May 15, 1892. (B48,251)
2. William Ellery Sedgwick, b. August 6, 1895. (B48,252)
B48,251.
Dorothy James, 1st child of Laura Brevoort (Sedgwick) James
(B48,25) and Henry A. James, was born May 15, 1892, in New
York City, and married February 4, 1924, in New York City
George Griswold Haven, Yale 1887, a New York City lawyer, who
died in New York City, July 21, 1926. Mrs. Haven lives at Falls
Village, Conn.
B48,252.
William Ellery Sedgwick James, 2d child of Laura Brevoort
(Sedgwick) James (B48,25) and Henry A. James, was born August
6, 1895, at East Hampton, Long Island, N.Y. and died in New
York City November 25, 1932, after a long illness. He married
April 25, 1917, Louise Russell Hoadley, daughter of Russell H. and
Eliot (Betts) Hoadley of that city. She resides at 205 East 69th
Street, New York City. Mr. James graduated at Groton School in
1913 and at Yale, A.B., in 1917. He joined the Officers Training
School May 15, 1917, less than a month after his marriage, received
a captaincy and was retained for the Second Training Camp; was
later assigned to Chillicothe, Ohio, Training Camp and then sent to
Fort Sill. He sailed in June, 1918, with the Eighty-fifth Division for
France, served two months at the front, then with the Army of
Occupation in Germany and was demobilized in March, 1919. He
joined the financial firm of Brown Brothers and was made a member
of it in 1924. Children:
1. Laura Louise, b. January 25, 1915, at Chillecothe, Ohio. (B48,252,1)
2. William Ellery Sedgwick, Jr., b. June 1, 1920, in New York City. (B48,252,2)
3. Mary Eliot, b. December 8, 1924, at Boston, Mass.; Vassar, 1945. (B48,252,3)