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Mrs. G.G. Whitney (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    This seems quite likely to be the former Alice Cornelia Thaw. From profilesintime.blogspot.com/2007/02/benjamin-thaw.html "Alice Thaw (January 2, 1880 - ? March 1969) - Baptized 11 DEC 1881 at 3rd Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania Alice Cornelia (Thaw) Seymour Whitney; in a much talked of international match, she became the Countess of Yarmouth. She married George Francis Alexander Seymour (20 October 1871, d. 16 February 1940), the son of Hugh de Grey Seymour, 6th Marquess of Hertford and Hon. Mary Hood, on 27 April 1903 in Pittsburgh. It is said that the earl extorted money from her at her wedding and promptly deserted her. Her marriage to George Francis Alexander Seymour was annulled in 1908. He was styled Lord Hertford; he died in 1940, aged 68 and childless, and his titles passed to his nephew. Later (before 1914), Alice Thaw became Mrs. Geoffrey G. Whitney (Geoffrey Gordon Whitney was born July 21, 1882 in Boston). Their estate was at Woods Hole. " The engagement announcement on December 19, 1912 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D03E4DA1E3AE633A... has a different middle initial for her future husband, but her May 1955 obituary at select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A14F8345B167B... (subscripton required), gives his name as Geoffrey G. Whitney. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A07E5DA173FE633A... dates the wedding as April 22, 1913. So the photo may be from around the time of the wedding. She was the sister of Harry K. Thaw, husband of Evelyn Nesbit. See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2929579164/
  • Richard Norton said:
    I started a biography of her in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cornelia_Thaw LOC: Please correct her death year to 1955.
  • Barbara (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks for pointing out the correct death date. We'll adjust the description when we next update.

Judge Seabury (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Elijah said:
    Samuel Seabury was a New York State judge in the 1910s, and in 1916 resigned to seek the governorship. In the early thirties he lead the Seabury Commission that investigated and cleaned up corruption in New York City courts.
  • Wystan said:
    In 1913, Seabury was the unsuccessful Progressive Party candidate for an Associate Justice vacancy on the New York State Court of Appeals. The photo bears Bain's date of August 7, 1913 -- perhaps the time when Seabury announced his candidacy.
  • Kristi (LOC P&P) said:
    Eli the Bearded and Wystan, Thanks for the additional details on Mr. Seabury. We'll expand the record when we update.

Mrs. Hollis Hunnewell (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Maud Somerville Jaffray, ex-wife of Hollis Horatio Hunnewell (d. 1922), son of banker Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (1810-1902): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Hunnewell She divorced Hunnewell Jr. in 1902 and married John S. Tooker in 1903. She was mother of two Hunnewell children, Louisa and Maud. She was six feet tall and noted in Newport society for being a fine athlete, engaging in baseball, fencing, and boxing and wrestling before she wed, and tennis, golf, and riding after she married.
  • Markus Tiemann said:
    A beautiful woman with a big hat ... and with a crazy name :-)! Lovely