Early Life, Career, and Family
Carey had deep familial roots in the city of his birth, Baltimore, Maryland. His great-great-great-grandfather James Carey was an 18th- and 19th-century Baltimore shipper, chairman of the Bank of Maryland, a member of Baltimore's first City Council and a distant relative of Johns Hopkins. His grandmother, Anne Galbraith Carey, conceived of the Gilman School for boys in Roland Park. As a young man Carey attended elementary school at Calvert School and left Roland Park's Gilman School to go to the Pomfret School in Connecticut, then attended Princeton University. Shortly after his father's death, he left Princeton for supposedly missing chapel. He went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania, before establishing himself in New Jersey working in his step-father's car dealership. Carey resided in New York City and Rensselaerville, New York. Carey was a notable alumnus of The Delta Phi Fraternity and was an active member in the University of Pennsylvania chapter. Mr Carey was an active member of the University Club in NYC. He was also Governor General of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in New York State. Mr. Carey also claimed to be a relative of President James Polk, the 11th President of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
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