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This may be Mrs. Arthur Carroll, [note spelling] 64 East Seventy-seventh Street, New York City.

Mrs. Annie Livingston Best, daughter of Mrs. Clermont Livingston Best, married Arthur Carroll, the elder son of General Howard Carroll and Mrs. Carroll of Carrollcliffe, Tarrytown, in September, 1910 in New York City. Arthur Carroll was a 1904 graduate of Columbia University.

Annie Livingston Best had previously married Elizur Yale Smith in November, 1907, however they divorced the following June and she resumed using her maiden name. Elizur Yale Smith spent some time in jail in Kingston, NY, in 1911, after defrauding hotels with bad checks.

Below is a photo of Arthur Carroll's boyhood home:

"Castle on the Hudson"      by Benjamin Haas


Mrs. Annie Carroll and Arthur divorced five years later, and she remarried, for the third time, W. Sackett Duell of Philadelphia, in January, 1920. —Compiled from The New York Times [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Photo appears to have been taken at Newport, R.I.

Was she part of the same family as John F. Kennedy?

This picture is really worth a thousand words. It tells a story of upper class society in Miss Kennedy's attire and her own dog. Even female idols of today have so called "designer dogs" like Paris Hilton's "tinkerbell."

This photograph exudes the aristocracy of society at the time. Her hat, full-length fur, and dog that she carries as an accessory familiarly channel celebrities today.

I believe her full name was Marian Kennedy. There was an article about this event (the first specialty show given by the American Pomeranian Club) in The New York Times, which took place in the sun parlor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 10, 1911. 262 dogs took part, and the event featured many wealthy and notable personages. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B07E4DB1331E233A...

It looks like Marian Kennedy was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer Kennedy. She was in the New York Times quite a bit beginning in 1910. query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query="marian+ke...

This is Miss Marjorie Brown (1892-1988) of Atlanta.

Marjorie was a daughter of First Lady Ellen Wilson's cousin, Colonel Edward T. Brown of Atlanta. She had two brothers, Edward M. and Henry W. Brown. [1] [2]   Growing up in Georgia, Marjorie was a long-time childhood friend of Jessie and Eleanor Wilson, and she later shared her college years with Jessie in Princeton.

Marjorie attended Miss Jessie Wilson as one of five bridesmaids at her White House wedding to Francis B. Sayre in November, 1913, and she was also a special guest at the wedding of Eleanor Wilson, six months later at the White House. [3] [4]   A portrait of Marjorie Brown appeared in The Atlanta Constitution on November 9, 1913. (shown below)

Marjorie married Benjamin M. King in Washington, DC, in December, 1920. Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, was maid of honor, and former First Lady Edith Wilson was among the guests. [5]

Benjamin King had been engaged to Eleanor Wilson. He was the manager of a lumber camp near Madera, Mexico when Eleanor met him while traveling with friends in 1913. The President and Mrs. Wilson liked King and approved of the engagement. However, Eleanor broke the engagement when she met William McAdoo later in 1913. Wilson and King remained friends, and after Benjamin and Marjorie married they would visit the Wilson’s. [6]

 
"Miss Marjorie Brown" by Meade

 

Simple, elegant, and there is something about those beautiful eyes.

A Timeless Treasure, for sure!