Charles Frederick Havemeyer (March 1867 – May 9, 1898) was an American socialite who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
His maternal grandfather was Chevalier Charles Frederick de Loosey, the Austrian Consul to New York.
[9] His father and uncle, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, constructed "one of the most modern sugar refineries in the world.
[27] On May 9, 1898, just ten minutes after playing with his son Teddy and while dressing for dinner, Havemeyer died from a gunshot wound in the head from a pistol at his home in Roslyn the age of 31.
[19] After a funeral at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan, he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.