On October 27, 1896, Emmet was married to Alida Beekman Chanler (1873–1969) at
Red Hook, New York, by the Bishop of New York. Alida was the daughter of former
U.S. Representative John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret
Astor (née
Ward) Chanler. Among Alida's siblings were
John Armstrong Chaloner,
Winthrop Astor Chanler;
Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (wife of
John Jay Chapman);
William Astor Chanler (who married
Beatrice Ashley);
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (who married
Julia Lynch Olin);
Margaret Livingston Chanler (who married
Richard Aldrich) and
Robert Winthrop Chanler (who married
Lina Cavalieri). Together, they were the parents of nine children, including: • Elizabeth Winthrop Emmet (1897–1934), who married Edwin D. Morgan Jr. (1890–1954), a descendant of
Edwin D. Morgan, the 21st
Governor of New York, a
U.S. Senator, and the longest-serving chairman of the
Republican National Committee. • Margaret Chanler Emmet (1899–), who married Francis Harrison Kinnicutt (1875–1939). After his death, she married John Benton Prosser in 1941. • Christopher Temple Emmet Jr. (1900–1974) • Hester Alida Emmet (1901–1965), who married architect John Louis Bancel LaFarge, a grandson of artist
John La Farge. • Egerton Chanler Emmet (1907–1907), who died in infancy. • William Patten Emmet (1911–1977) • Thomas Addis Emmet (1915–1990), who lived at
Amberley Castle in
Sussex, England. His widow died on August 31, 1969, and after a mass at St. Philip and James Roman Catholic Church, she was buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery in
Hauppauge, New York.
Descendants Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was a grandfather of
Edwin D. Morgan III (1921–2001), who married Nancy Marie Whitney, the daughter of
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and
Marie Norton Harriman (the second wife of New York governor
W. Averell Harriman). Her paternal grandparents were
Harry Payne Whitney and
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, an artist and the founder of the
Whitney Museum in New York City. ==References==