James Newbegin Jarvie (1853 – June 21, 1929) was a British-American merchant and philanthropist who was known as the "Coffee King".
[1] At the age of two in 1855, he came to the United States with his family and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and Bloomfield, New Jersey.
[6][7] On August 28, 1909, Jarvie was married to Helen Venderveer Newtown, a daughter of Bloomfield coal dealer John Newton.
[9][10] Although he lived in Brooklyn for many years, Jarvie lived the last twenty-five years of his life in a mansion at 159 Upper Mountain Avenue in Montclair, New Jersey, which was referred to as "one of the largest and most beautiful in Montclair", and was robbed of all its silver in 1912.
[11] Jarvie died at sea on the Homeric en route to England, on June 21, 1929.