Marriages and children On November 8, 1895, Sedgwick married Sarah May Minturn, daughter of
Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr. (part owner of the
Flying Cloud clipper ship) and Susanna (née Shaw) Minturn (Susanna was the sister of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw) at
St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in
New York City. The couple had four children: • Henry Dwight "Halla" IV (1896–1914) • Edith Minturn (1901–1901) • Robert Minturn "Duke" (1899–1976) • Francis Minturn Sedgwick (1904–1967) Their only daughter, Edith, died the day after her birth. Their eldest son Henry IV (known as Halla) died of
pneumonia at the age of 17. Sarah May Minturn died of a
stroke in 1919. Robert Minturn Sedgwick was a
Harvard Crimson football athlete, as was his father, who started at left tackle for two teams—1919 and 1920—that defeated Yale, the 1919 team named national champions. The elder Sedgwick lettered in the 1878 season; his son Robert, at left tackle, lettered in the 1919 and 1920 seasons. On May 18, 1953, Sedgwick married Gabriella May Ladd in
Newtown Township, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Dr. Maynard Ladd and sculptor
Anna Coleman Ladd. Ladd, who was 46 years Sedgwick's junior, had never been married nor did she remarry after Sedgwick's death.
Relatives and friends Sedgwick's granddaughter was
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick, the daughter of his youngest son Francis and his wife Alice Delano de Forest. Alice was the daughter of
Henry deForest. During the 1960s, Edie Sedgwick starred in many of
Andy Warhol's short films. He is also a paternal great-grandfather to actress
Kyra Sedgwick, whose father is Henry Dwight Sedgwick V. Henry V is the son of Sedgwick's second oldest son Robert and his first wife Helen Peabody (1890–1948), daughter of
Endicott Peabody. Sedgwick was a friend to
Leavitt Hunt, son of Vermont Congressman
Jonathan Hunt (Vermont Representative) and, like Sedgwick, also a Harvard Law School-educated New York attorney. Hunt was also a photographer and brother of Boston painter
William Morris Hunt and architect
Richard Morris Hunt. Sedgwick and Leavitt Hunt frequently corresponded. His funeral was held on January 8 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in
Boston. Sedgwick and his first wife, Sarah Minturn Sedgwick, are buried in the
Sedgwick Pie in
Stockbridge Cemetery,
Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His second wife, Gabriella, was also buried in the Pie upon her death in 1972. ==Selected publications==