Harry Newton Hempstead was the owner of the New York Giants

San Francisco Giants

The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

 of the National League

National League

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...

 from 1912 through 1919.

Biography

He was born on June 25, 1868 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 to Orlando Gordon Hempstead and Elizabeth Ophelia Tyler. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1891 and on October 10, 1894 he married Eleanor Gordon Brush. In 1912 he purchased the franchise from John T. Brush

John T. Brush

John Tomlinson Brush was an American sports executive who was the owner of the New York Giants franchise in Major League Baseball from 1890 until his death. He also owned the Indianapolis Hoosiers in the late 1880s, and the Cincinnati Reds from 1891 to 1902. Under his leadership, the Giants were...

, his father-in-law. In 1919, he sold the franchise to Charles Stoneham

Charles Stoneham

Charles A. Stoneham was the owner of the New York Giants baseball team, New York Giants soccer team, the center of numerous corruption scandals and the instigator of the "Soccer Wars" which destroyed the American Soccer League.-Business ventures:Stoneham began his career as a board boy, updating...

. He died on March 26, 1938 at his home on Park Avenue

Park Avenue (Manhattan)

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 in Manhattan

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