times. Winthrop-Taylor monies were lent to the Kean’s during the Panic of 1907, during the Great Depression to recapitalize Kean, Taylor and National State Bank of Elizabeth, and once again upon the death of Hamilton Fish Kean in 1941 to keep Kean, Taylor in existence. Among Robert Winthrop’s descendants, Robert Winthrop (1904–1999), who headed Robert Winthrop & Company, and Wood, Struthers, & Winthrop from 1939 until 1969 and was the majority partner upon its sale in 1977. Frederic Winthrop (1906–1979) was a gentleman farmer who presided over his estate in Hamilton and Ipswich, Massachusetts. Frederic Winthrop was the father of five sons including Grant Forbes Winthrop who is a partner at Milbank, & Winthrop, a private investment firm in New York City. Through his marriage, Frederic Winthrop was the uncle of U.S. Senator John F. Kerry. The Winthrop cousins also jointly own a plantation in Allendale County, South Carolina, called Groton Plantation. The plantation is today the site of ongoing conservation efforts through game management, and the land remains a token of beautiful low country South Carolina. References Further reading "The Business Career of Moses Taylor" by Daniel Hodas, New York: New York University Press (1976). "An Old Merchant's Death", obituary of Moses Taylor in The New York Times, May 24, 1882. "Reared in a Greenhouse" by Dorothy B. Wexler, New York and London, Garland Publishing (1998). "Governor Tom Kean" by Alvin S. Felzenberg: RutgersUniversity Press (2006). "Fourscore Years" by Robert W. Kean, Privately Published (1974). "The New York Times," articles from the following dates: June 25, 1859; October 16, 1977; January 23, 1913; December 4, 1883; External links Groton Plantation – Solomons Crossroads, Allendale & Hampton Counties Winthrop Family Home Movie Collection, University of Georgia 1833 births 1892 deaths Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery American financiers 19th-century American businesspeople Winthrop family American people of English descent Businesspeople from New York City American bankers People from Murray Hill, Manhattan