Robert "Duke" Sedgwick

Robert Minturn Sedgwick (1899-1976) was the second child of Henry Dwight and Sarah May Minturn Sedgwick, born 27 January 1899 in New York City. He graduated from the Groton School in 1917, and Harvard College in 1921, where he was a championship boxer and football player. After teaching for a year at Groton School, Robert Minturn Sedgwick worked for the Boston investment firm of Scudder, Stevens, and Clark. He married Helen Peabody, daughter of Endicott and Fannie Peabody, in 1924, and the couple lived in Dedham, Mass. with their three children: May Minturn Sedgwick (later Osborne); Henry Dwight Sedgwick; and Fanny Peabody Sedgwick. After Helen's death in 1948, Robert Minturn Sedgwick married Emily Ames Lincoln, with whom he had three children: Robert Minturn Sedgwick, Jr.; Emily Ames Sedgwick; and John Shaw Sedgwick.

Source: "Biographical Sketch," downloaded December 11, 2013, from "Henry Dwight Sedgwick III and Robert Minturn Sedgwick Papers" at Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0360

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