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John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (August 12, 1866 – January 15, 1948) [1] was an American Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker who was a patriarch of the Bouvier family.He was the father of John Vernou Bouvier III as well as a grandfather of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and socialites Princess Lee Radziwill and Edith Bouvier Beale.
John Vernou Bouvier Jr. was born in 1866 and inherited US$250,000 (equivalent to $4,436,047 in 2023) from the family, some of which he lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. He was also a successful attorney. [2] John Vernou Bouvier III, the son of J. V. Bouvier Jr married Janet Norton Lee in 1928.
John Vernou Bouvier III was born May 19, 1891 in Manhattan, New York, the eldest of five children, to John Vernou Bouvier Jr. and Maude Frances Bouvier (née Sergeant). His nickname, "Black Jack", referred to his flamboyant lifestyle. [1] Bouvier's great-grandfather, Michel Charles Bouvier, was a French cabinetmaker from Pont-Saint-Esprit, France
When Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr. died in 1948, his fortune had dwindled, and the majority of his estate went to Big Edie's twin sisters while her (greatly reduced) inheritance was left in the ...
Caroline Lee Bouvier was born in New York City in 1933. She always went by her middle name. Her father John Vernou Bouvier III was a stockbroker and her mother Janet Lee was a socialite.
Janet Norton Lee was only 21 when she married Jackie’s father, John Vernou “Black Jack” Bouvier III, ... Jackie had gotten engaged to John Husted Jr., a stockbroker, in January of 1952.
The house belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's paternal grandparents John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (referred to as "the Major") and Maude Sergeant Bouvier.The Bouviers' first summer residence in East Hampton was a simple house called Wildmoor, on Apaquogue Road in Georgica, which the Major bought about 1910. [2]
In 1928, [6] she married her first husband, John Vernou Bouvier III (1891–1957). [9] He was the son of Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (1866–1948), a successful attorney, and Maude Frances Sergeant (1870–1940). [10] He was also the brother of Edith Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), later known as the subject of the documentary film, Grey Gardens ...