Jean Mauzé (January 15, 1903 – January 1974) was a
Manhattan
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banker, senior vice president of
United States Trust Company and married
Abby Rockefeller on April 23, 1953. After his wife created the Greenacre Foundation in 1968, he donated Greenacre Park to
City of New York
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in 1971.
Early life
He was the son of Rev. Dr. J. Layton Mauzé. His brother was the Rev. Dr. George Mauzé.
Mauze graduated from
Davidson College in 1923. He was later awarded an honorary
Doctor of Laws
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degree in 1972.
During
World War II
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, he served in Navy in the Pacific and was a commander in the Reserve.
Career
In 1941, he joined the
United States Trust Company in New York and by 1961, was Senior Vice President. Although he retired from U.S. Trust in 1968, he continued to serve the bank as a consultant.
Mauzé was a member of the investment advisory group of
Commercial Union Insurance Company of New York, a director of the
Freeport Minerals Company, the
Brooklyn Savings Bank, One William Street Fund, Inc., and a member of the finance committee of the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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. He also served as a governor, financial vice president and chairman of the finance committee of
New York Hospital.
Personal life
On April 23, 1953,
he married
Abby Rockefeller (1903–1976), the eldest child and only daughter of
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller.
He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in M ...
and
Abby Aldrich.
The ceremony took place at the home of Abby's brother,
Laurance Rockefeller
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was an American businessman, financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. Rockefeller was the third son and fourth child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. As ...
in New York, with Jean's brother, Rev. Dr. George Mauzé, a Presbyterian minister, officiating. Abby had been widowed in 1949, after the death of her second husband, Dr.
Irving Hotchkiss Pardee.
He was a member of the
University Club of New York and the
Piping Rock Club
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History
The Piping Rock clubhouse was designed by American designer Guy Lowell and built in 1911. Lowell based his ...
in
Locust Valley, NY.
See also
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Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family () is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brot ...
References
1903 births
1974 deaths
Rockefeller family
Davidson College alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
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