Albert Carlton Bostwick (June 22, 1878 – November 10, 1911)[1] was an American banker, sportsman, and automobile enthusiast.

[2] His father was a founding partner of Standard Oil and a major shareholder and President of the New York and New England Railroad, a substantial shareholder in the Housatonic Railroad, and a member of the New York Cotton Exchange.

[3] Bostwick began working for Walter C. Stokes & Co., a brokerage firm, as a delivery boy.

[7] With his automobile, Bostwick set several land speed records in the United States and Europe.

[1] After his death, his widow remarried to Fitch Gilbert Jr., a Harvard and Columbia Law School graduate and farmer, in 1914.