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Barbara Cainrcross Rutherfurd (1895-1939), debutante of the 1915-16 season. Apparently her bedroom was copied from a Renaissance painting of St. Ursula (there's also a 1921 photo of her at this link): aestheteslament.blogspot.com/2011_09_28_archive.html Her mother was Anne Harriman Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt. Her stepfather was William K. Vanderbilt Sr. (whose ex-wife Alva is also in this week's uploads). Barbara married twice--to Cyril Hatch in 1916 (divorced 1921), and to Winfield J. Nicholls in 1924 (divorced 1927, and in Reno 1930). She (and her mother and sister) were involved in a cult called "the Mystic Order of Tantricks," run by someone called "Oom the Omnipotent." Her children, twins, were born five months into her second marriage; she was apparently not involved in their upbringing (or even in choosing their names). Her second husband claimed she was a lunatic and sought to have their marriage annulled. Barbara died at age 44, at Cannes, France. news.google.com/newspapers?id=60ZQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CQ4EA... Her brother Winthrop Rutherfurd married (as his second wife) Lucy Page Mercer--the mistress of FDR. Winthrop and Lucy's only child was named Barbara. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Page_Mercer_Rutherfurd

The grave of Winthrop Rutherfurd and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd -- with notes about her scandalous relationship with FDR:

Thank you pennylrichardsca and Wystan for the details about the life of Barbara Rutherfurd. We will add more information to the description when we update.

Winthrop Rutherfurd was Barbara Rutherfurd's cousin. Barbara was my Grandmother.

My mistake, Winthrop was her father Lewis Morris Rutherfurd's younger brother...So, he was my Grandmother's Uncle.....his children where her cousins. My Grandmother was searching her whole life , as is evidenced in her youthful diaries, It is special to possess them and see her search lead her to study yoga. She was a very sensitive human being.

"William Farnum (born July 4, 1876, Boston, Massachusetts – died June 5, 1953, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) was a major movie actor." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farnum

In 1915, he insured his face for $ 100'000. See The Washington times, March 24, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 11 The daily Missourian, August 27, 1916, Page Three, Image 13 describes him as one of the greatest and roughest actors in the business, but "in all his roughness there is not a person in the world that could be offended".

Her husband's wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Mooers An oral history with Calvin and Charlotte Mooers, conducted in 1993, talking about their work: conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107510 Their daughter, Edith Mooers, is also a computer scientist; she was in the cast of the early-1970s children's TV series "ZOOM." www.imdb.com/name/nm0600548/