Edmund L. Baylies

Edmund Lincoln Baylies, Jr. (December 2, 1857 – April 29, 1932) was a New York City lawyer, philanthropist, and member of New York Society during the Gilded Age. Early life Baylies was born in New York on December 2, 1857. He was the eldest child of Edmund Lincoln Baylies (1829–1869), a merchant and philanthropist, and Nathalie Elizabeth Ray (1837–1912). He was the brother of Cornelia Prime Ray, who married Judge Francis Cabot Lowell; Walter Cabot Baylies, a president of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company who married Charlotte Upham; in 1888, and Ruth Baylies. His maternal grandparents were Cornelia (née Prime) Ray (the daughter of Nathaniel Prime) and Robert Ray, the brother-in-law of New York Gov. John Alsop King. His paternal grandparents were Edmund Baylies (a cousin of U.S. Representative Francis Baylies) and Eliza Ann (née Payson) Baylies. Through his father's family, he was descended from Benjamin Lincoln, the Revolutionary War general and aide-de-camp to Washington, and Thomas Baylies, who emigrated to the America in 1737. His aunt, Ruth Baylies, was married to Maturin Livingston Jr., the son of Maturin Livingston, making Elizabeth Livingston, the wife of George Cavendish-Bentinck, and her twin sister, Ruth T. Livingston, the wife of Ogden Mills, his first cousins. Another aunt, Cornelia Ray, was married to Maj. Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, son of John Church Hamilton and grandson of Alexander Hamilton, making Robert Ray Hamilton, his first cousins. Baylies graduated from Harvard College, with an A.B., in 1879 and then from Harvard Law School, with an L.L.B., in 1882. He also obtained an LL.D. from Columbia Law School in 1882.