Catherine Austin Fitts was previously married to Geoffrey K. Hurley and George McDonnell Gordon...
1st wedding announcement:
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Dr. and Mrs. William T. Fitts Jr. of Philadelphia have announced the engagement of their daughter, C. Austin Fitts, to Geoffrey K. Hurley, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hurley of Washington.
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Dr. and Mrs. William T. Fitts Jr. of Philadelphia have announced the engagement of their daughter, C. Austin Fitts, to Geoffrey K. Hurley, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Hurley of Washington.
"The future bride is a granddaughter of Dr. William T. Fitts, and Mrs. Fitts and Dr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Willits of Langhorne, Pa., and Jackson, N.H. Dr. Willits was a dean at the Wharton School and a director of social sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation."
Dr. Willits's son wedding announcement:
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Robin D. Willits weds Lydia, daughter of Dr. S. Emlen Stokes of Moorestown, N.J._1946
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Robin D. Willits weds Lydia, daughter of Dr. S. Emlen Stokes of Moorestown, N.J._1946
"Miss Stokes is a senior at Skidmore College, New York Post-Graduate Hospital School of Nursing. She is a granddaughter of the late Frank L. Babbott, prominent Brooklynite, who was at one time president' of the Brooklyn Museum. Her mother was Lydia Pratt Babbott."
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Frank Lusk Babbott (August 14, 1854 β December 7, 1933) was an American jute merchant, art collector, patron, and philanthropist..
He was a childhood friend of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak π€
Frank Lusk Babbott (August 14, 1854 β December 7, 1933) was an American jute merchant, art collector, patron, and philanthropist..
He was a childhood friend of George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak π€
George Eastman of Eastman Kodak set up the Eastman School of Music in an exclusive neighbourhood of Rochester, known as the GROVE.
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> First Unitarian Church of Rochester
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> First Unitarian Church of Rochester
"Babbott married Lydia Richardson Pratt (1857β1904), daughter of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt on February 18, 1886"
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"A watercolor by Rochesterian Charles Gruppe, purchased in 1892, and a small genre scene in oils, In the House of the Field Marshal, purchased from the French Salon of 1893, mark the beginning of
Eastman's art collecting.".
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Eastman's art collecting.".
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"After the 1905 move into the mansion, he appointed Frank L. Babbott, a childhood friend from Waterville who became a New York manufacturer and lawyer as
well as chairman of the Brooklyn Museum, to act as one-man "art committee," scouring the galleries w/ Eastman's taste in mind"
well as chairman of the Brooklyn Museum, to act as one-man "art committee," scouring the galleries w/ Eastman's taste in mind"
So, Catherine's first husband Geoffrey K. Hurley was a lawyer with Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell & Petty in New York. His mother, Evelyn M. Hurley, was an economist with the Federal Reserve System, and his father an economist with the Federal Trade Commission.
Austin Fitts 2nd wedding announcement:
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"to MacDonnell Gordon, writer who lives in Santa Fe, N.M...Miss Fitts, .. studied Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania."
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"to MacDonnell Gordon, writer who lives in Santa Fe, N.M...Miss Fitts, .. studied Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania."
"Mr. Gordon, an alumnus of the Hatchkiss School, received his degree cum laude from Penn, class of β72. He is the son of Mrs. William H. Vernon of Sante Fe. His stepfather is a lawyer and banker. Mrs. Vernon appeared on Broadway and television as Kyle MacDonnell."
actor and television host Don Ameche (1908 - 1993) (left) shares a table with actress and television host Kyle MacDonnell (1922 - 2004) at The Stork Club, New York, New York, early 1950.
(Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)
(Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)
The first marriage of Kyle MacDonnell to theater producer and writer Richard H. Gordon, ended in divorce.. In 1959, she married Santa Fe banker William H. Vernon and retired.
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