Bostwick family

The Bostwicks are descendants of Robert De Brostick, born in 1522 in England.

A branch of the New York Bostwick family rose to prominence when Jabez Abel Bostwick made a fortune in business and was a founding partner and first Treasurer of the Standard Oil Company.

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 . Their youngest daughter, Evelyn, first married Capt. Albert Carstairs of the Royal Irish Rifles and made her home in London, England. Their daughter, Joe Carstairs, was well known in the 1920s as a powerboat racer and for her eccentric lifestyle.

Albert Carlton Bostwick married Mary Lillian Stokes and had five children:

Cornell University 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 Singer Sewing Machine in Cooperstown, New York.

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