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The Elkins - Widener family from Philadelphia
Page entitled : George D. Widener jr and Eleanor
Dixon
Content of this page is about :
How George D. Widener jr was most active in his generation but died
childless, leaving his fortune to Fitz Eugene Dixon jr, the son of Eleanor
Widener Dixon.
Extract :
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George D. Widener jr,
also married a divorcee. Jessie (Sloane) Dodge was the daughter of Henry T.
Sloane, a multi-millionaire heir to a dynasty of famous New York City carpet
merchants, who also had ties to the Vanderbilt family. Her first husband,
William Earl Dodge (IV), was the equally blue-blooded great-grandson of a
founder of Phelps-Dodge Corporation. ...
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