Peter Augustus Jay was an American diplomat who served as U.S. General Consul to Egypt, U.S. Minister to El Salvador and Romania and U.S. Ambassador to Argentina.
Jay in 1923
DeLancey Astor Kane
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DeLancey Astor Kane was an American soldier and horseman who was prominent in New York Society during the Gilded Age. He was called the "father of coaching in the United States."
Peter Augustus Jay (diplomat)
…first United States Chief Justice. His maternal grandparents were DeLancey Kane and Louisa Dorothea (née Langdon) Kane. His maternal uncles included DeLancey Astor Kane, Commodore S. Nicholson Kane, and Rough Rider Woodbury Kane, all cousins of John Jacob Astor IV. In 1880, Jay was painted by John Singer Sargent. Jay…
portrait by Edward Harrison May
Kane's country estate, "The Paddocks" in New Rochelle, New York