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   The Payne - Whitney Family of Cleveland and New York

Page entitled : William C. Whitney and Edith May Randolph

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The short and happy second marriage of William Collins Whitney to Edith May Randolph and her riding tragic accident at the Whitneys Aiken estate.

Extract :
a well connected New York socialite, was a daughter of Dr. John Frederick May, surgeon from Washington DC and Sarah Mills, whose family relations to the Jays, Winthrops and Kanes were sufficient to guarantee her daughter admission to Mrs Astor’s Four Hundred. A widow, she had two children from her first husband, ‘Captain’ Arthur Randolph, but only a modest fortune. Her sister Caroline was once engaged to James   ...

 

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