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I think the caption says "W.C. Eustis" Probably this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Corcoran_Eustis

Thanks rjones0856. We'll make the correction to the name as it is spelled on the negative when we update the record. But we'll wait to see if more information comes in before we confirm his identity.

The former Nina Floyd Crosby, daughter of Walter Floyd Crosby (d. 1915, age 59). She was the wife of a Louisiana senator, James Biddle Eustis (one S), from 1903 until he also died in 1915, age 44. Then in 1917 she married a Frenchman, Marie Charles Jean Melchior (1880-1950), the Marquis de Polignac: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Charles_Jean_Melchior_de_Poli...

Thanks for the information. We'll add it to the source data and reload the description.

This site says that James Biddle Eustis died in 1899 at age 65. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000229

Hmm, looking closer: she seems to have been married in 1903 to a younger James Biddle Eustis (1870-1915, Harvard class of 1894), son of James Biddle Eustis the senator; this woman's husband was apparently not the senator. Just to make it more interesting, Nina Crosby and JBE had a son who was also called James Biddle Eustis.

William Corcoran Eustice Here is the first clue from January 17, 1913. I will look up the full article and post it later. He appears to have headed the Woodrow Wilson inauguration of March 4, 1913. Van Wert Daily Bulletin; January 17, 1913 ... elect Wilson wrote a letter to William C. Eustice chairman of the Inaugural committee ... Hartford Courant; January 17, 1913 This became known today when he sent a letter to William Corcoran Eustice at Washington, chairman of the inauguration committee, asking him to consider the ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Corcoran_Eustis

The second Mrs. George Peabody Eustis was a Newport socialite in the 1910s, born Rosamond K. Street in 1882, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William A Street. Rosamond and George were cousins. When they were engaged to be married in 1908, the New York Times noted: "Miss Street, who came out several years ago, is considered one of the handsomest young women in society. She is an accomplished pianist, having taken part in many amateur entertainments for charity."

The couple had an eventful honeymoon in Europe; George caught smallpox and they spent their trip home in quarantine on the Carpathia.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C14FB345512738...

The Eustises changed their surname to Corcoran in 1921, to perpetuate the name of his late grandfather, WIlliam C. Corcoran. So this woman became Rosamond Eustis Corcoran, and her children were named William Street Eustis Corcoran and Lucinda Morgan Eustis Corcoran.

Rosamond's great-granddaughter is TIME editor Ruth Davis Konigsberg.
ideas.time.com/contributor/ruth-davis-konigsberg/

Looks like she bore a daughter, perhaps Lucinda, in Newport on July 31, 1915
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00616FF385B1773...

This entry makes it sound like his first wife was his first cousin, not Rosamond Street:
books.google.com/books?id=lbTTAAAAMAAJ&q=%22George+Eu...

And here's a memoir from Ruth Konigsberg about her family and a little more about the reasons for the name change. Also, it seems that her maternal great-grandparents, George and Rosamond, lost everything in the Crash of 29. (page 21 and after).
books.google.com/books?id=YiIViHHRzaAC&lpg=PA22&d...