Abner Weyman Colgate

Abner Weyman Colgate (30 August 1838 — 20 March 1904) was an American businessperson, author, and patron, the heir of the Colgate family. 

Abner Weyman Colgate was born on August 30, 1838, in New York City, New York, to Cornelia Frances (Weyman) Colgate and Robert Colgate (son of the founder of the Colgate-Palmolive company, William Colgate.)

After graduating from Yale University in 1858, Colgate spent six months in travel in Europe, and then engaged in manufacturing white lead and linseed oil, at first as a clerk, but from 1861 as a partner with his father in the firm R. Colgate & Co. in New York City. He initially lived for a time in the family home at Riverdale, New York, then again in New York City, but since 1895, he resided in Morristown, New Jersey, where he was a member of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church.

Colgate retired from active business in the firm in 1878 but retained his private office until 1895.

As a patron of arts, Colgate had sponsored the American Museum of Natural History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Geographical Society, among others.

• The Development of American Architecture, The Continental Monthly, New York 1864, Volume V, page 466 ff.
• Three weeks at Kissingen, The Galaxy Miscellany, New York 1868, Volume VI, page 262 ff.
• Steam-Travel in Cities, Putnam's Magazine, New York 1869, third volume, page 81 ff.
• Can the Trip to Europe Be Shortened?, The Galaxy, New York 1873, Volume XX, page 41 ff.

On November 23, 1869, Colgate married Charlotte Elizabeth Blake (?? — 12 November 1880), the daughter of Stephen Mann Blake and Elizabeth Ann (Hoyt) Blake, in Manhattan. After Charlotte's death in 1880, Colgate married his second wife, Margaret Garr (daughter of George and Eliza P. Garr), on January 17, 1883.

Colgate died childless of a heart attack on March 20, 1904, in Pasadena, California, at the age of 65.