Charles Shipman Payson (October 16, 1898 – May 5, 1985) was the owner of the New York Mets of the National League from 1975 through 1980.
[2] He was a graduate of the Salisbury School in Connecticut, Yale University and Harvard Law and became a prominent lawyer and businessman in New York City.
In turn, Payson's daughters left the baseball side to board chairman M. Donald Grant.
She inherited a trust fund from her grandfather, William C. Whitney and on her father's death in 1927, she received a large part of the family fortune.
[6] The couple lived in a 1928 home designed by William Delano, on a 110 acres in Manhasset, New York, given to them by her parents as a wedding gift.