Following the War, he joined the stock brokerage firm of F. S. Moseley & Co., of which he remained a partner until his death in 1961.
[7] During World War II, he was chairman of the Officers Service Committee that was headquartered in the Commodore Hotel in Manhattan.
[7] After his death, the Parke-Bernet Galleries held an auction of French, English and other furniture from his estate.
[20] Through his eldest daughter Rosamond, he was a grandfather of Burton J. Lee III (1930–2016), the Physician to the President from 1989 to 1993, and Rosamond Saltonstall Lee (1930–2021), a debutante[21] who married Francis Irénée du Pont II,[22][23] and Bernard Jackson Felch.
[26] In 1925, burglars entered their Roslyn home during a storm and "stole Oriental rugs, tapestries and household ornaments valued at more than $10,000".
[30] On October 19, 1930, The New York Times announced Charles' plans to replace the 70th Street house with "a five-story, brick, marble and granite trim" residence designed by Edward S.
[31] The home was completed a year later in the stylized neo-Georgian design and sat on a street that Fortune Magazine described nine-years later as "the most beautiful residential block" in the city.