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Bostwick family rose to prominence when Jabez Abel Bostwick made a fortune in business and was a founding partner and first Treasurer of the

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Jabez Bostwick and his wife Helen had two daughters, Nellie and Evelyn, and a son, Albert Carlton Bostwick (1876–1911). Nellie Bostwick married Francis Lee Morrell, a member of the

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. Their youngest daughter, Evelyn, first married Capt. Albert Carstairs of the

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and made her home in

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. Their daughter,

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, was well known in the 1920s as a powerboat racer who led an eccentric lifestyle.

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married Mary Lillian Stokes and had five children: *

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(1899–2001) - philanthropist, first woman to hold a helicopter pilot's license * Albert Jr. (1901–1980) - Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, whose horse

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won the 1931

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* Lillian Stokes (1906–1987) - owner of

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, who won the

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eight times * Dunbar Wright (1908–2006) - chairman of the Aviation Instrument Manufacturing Corp.;

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horse breeder, hockey player and a director and treasurer of the United States Trotting Association. * George Herbert "Pete" (1909–1982) -

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player, U.S. Racing Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey and horse trainer

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is home to the Albert C. Bostwick Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Canine and Feline Parvoviruses at the Baker Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine. Members of the Bostwick family married into the prominent Clark family, once significant owners of

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* ttps://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/28/obituaries/lillian-b-phipps-81-active-in-horse-racing.html New York Times November 28, 1987 "Lillian B. Phipps, 81, Active in Horse Racing"
Associated Press January 16, 1982 "George H. (Pete) Bostwick; Trained Steeplechase Horses"

* ttps://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/30/classified/paid-notice-deaths-bostwick-gh.html New York Times September 30, 1998 'Death notices: Mrs. G.H. Bostwick American families of English ancestry Families from New York (state) Business families of the United States Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)