and served as a director of National City Bank. In 1883, Robert Winthrop was an original shareholder of the Real Estate Exchange and Auction Room in New York when he purchased $10,000 of the original $115,000 subscribed. Other original shareholders included John Jacob Astor, William Astor, and Lloyd Aspinwall. Winthrop served as a trustee of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company and the Orthopedic Hospital. Society life Socially, Robert Winthrop belonged to the Union, Knickerbocker, Riding, and Metropolitan Clubs. Winthrop was a friend, neighbor, and business associate of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., father of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. The Winthrop and Roosevelt families would remain close through the next generation as Robert Winthrop’s son, Beekman Winthrop, would serve as Governor of Puerto Rico and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during Roosevelt's Administration. Personal life On June 23, 1859, Winthrop was married to Kate Wilson Taylor (1839–1925). She was the daughter of Moses Taylor, who was one of the greatest railroad, iron, and coal company financiers and was president of National City Bank for 27 years. They had six children who lived to adulthood: Robert Dudley Winthrop (1861–1912), a Harvard graduate and banker who did not marry. Grenville Lindall Winthrop (1864–1943), who accumulated one of the largest and most valuable private art collections in the United States, which he bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University upon his death in 1943. Katharine Taylor Winthrop (1866–1943), who married U.S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean. Frederic Bayard Winthrop (1868–1932), who married Dorothy Amory (d. 1907) in 1903. After her death, he married Sarah Barroll Thayer (1885–1938), the daughter of Nathaniel Thayer III, in 1911. Albertina Taylor Winthrop (1871–1934), who married Dutch diplomat Jan Herman van Roijen. Beekman Winthrop (1874–1940), who served in the Taft Administration and from 1909 to 1913, was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He married Melza Riggs Wood (1870-1928). Winthrop died on November 18, 1892 at his home, 38 East 37th Street in New York City and his funeral was held at Grace Church in Manhattan. Descendants Through his daughter Katharine, Winthrop was the grandfather of U.S. Congressman Robert Winthrop Kean (1893–1980), grandfather of Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Howard Kean Sr. (b. 1935), and 2x great-grandfather of Minority Leader of the New Jersey Senate Thomas Kean (b. 1968). It was the Winthrop-Taylor fortune that kept the Kean family afloat in tough economic