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Mrs Alan Johnstone was a Pinchot, sister to Amos and Gifford. See NYT article from 1892 at query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D00E6DA1F31E033A... "Miss Antoinette E. Pinchot was married yesterday to the Hon. Alan Johnstone of England Instead of taking place in St. George's Church as originally intended, the ceremony was performed at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot of Gramercy Park."

Addition to Swang comment: Amos with his sister, a wife of a foreign dipolmat - children of lumber baron James W. Pinchot, a founder of the Conservation Movement - Amos, part of the "Bull Moose" in 1912, and aquaintance of President Theodore TEDDY Roosevelt - later labeled as a pacifist, frequent speaker, writer, and author - spoke against large military buildup, founded isolationist group that dissolved after US entered WWII - was also against the growing role of big business in national politcs - moralist - rumored to have unsuccessfully attempted suicide out of depression over WWII Lady Alan - AKA Antoinette Pinchot - society leader, reputedly entertained in London at the Ritz, Edwardian fashionable - see also: www.yourbrotherkings.com/?p=100

Slight correction. James W. was not a founder of the conservation movement, except indirectly. He was the father of Amos, Antoinette, and Amos Pinchot. Gifford was encouraged by his father to study forestry, so Gifford, who went on to found the Forest Service in 1905, credited his father with being the "Father of Forestry." But James was a wealthy New York businessman, not a lumber baron. The Pinchot family funded the establishment of the Yale School of Forestry in 1900, and James probably contributed the bulk of the initial $150,000 and possibly the eventual $300,000. Gifford and others were the founders of the Conservation Movement during TR's presidency. In 1912, Amos and Gifford were major supporters of TR's third-party run for the presidency.

Thanks for the clarification - always appreciated - any web site links to your info?

The entire series:

A repeat appearance: Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (December 6, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much to keep progressive ideas alive in the 1920s.

Amos and his his older brother Gifford Pinchot, who were very wealthy, were major supporters of Theodore Roosevelt's run for the presidency in 1912 and contributed substantial funds to the unsuccessful campaign.

AG is likely Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The "Mrs" is unclear to me. He divorced his first wife ca. 1909, and remarried 1911. He died on the Lusitania.

The widow was born Margaret Emerson, herself an heiress of the Bromo Seltzer fortune:

"[Isaac Edward] Emerson's daughter Margaret married at 18 to Dr. Smith Hollins McKim. They became social leaders in New York's high society. But in 1910 she brought a sensational divorce suit against her husband, claiming he beat her in drunken rages. She remarried in 1911, this time to Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I, one of the wealthiest men in America having inherited the bulk of his father's fortune in 1889. They had two sons, Alfred Gwynne Jr. and George. Tragically, while traveling to England on business, Alfred Sr. heroically lost his life in the sinking of RMS Lusitania by torpedo in 1915. Margaret inherited her husband's fortune (as well as the bulk of her father's fortune when he died). One son from this marriage, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II went on to become one of the driving forces behind thoroughbred racing in America. Margaret married two more times, both ending in divorce. In 1931 she legally resumed her maiden name."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Isaac_Edward_Emerson
Margaret Emerson's obituary from January, 1960:
select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E4DD1138E333...

A.G. Vanderbilt in another Bain photo:

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.05295 is a picture of Mrs. Mckim/Vanderbilt from the Bain collection -- not yet uploaded to Flickr.

I haven't been able to identify this building. Sources I have consulted say she was living at the Vanderbilt Hotel at the time the Lusitania sank.

And I've found two houses she owned at some point but which it isn't: The Gould house on Fifth Avenue and Eat 67th shown in www.oldpokerchips.com/NonNevada/Gould.htm And a grand house in London, which he left her in his will according to NYT of May 30, 1915 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50B17F9385C13738... Gloucester House at Piccadilly and Park Lane pictured at www.amsprop.com/gloucester_house/index.html