Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
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Elizabeth de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies was an American author, philanthropist, and Manhattan socialite.
A 1905 portrait of Drexel by Giovanni Boldini
Drexel and Henry Symes Lehr at their wedding in 1901
Drexel's first husband, John V. Dahlgren, c. 1897
Drexel in 1899
John Vinton Dahlgren
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John Vinton Dahlgren was an American lawyer, Commissioner of Charities for the State of New York and the first husband of Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. The medical library building at Georgetown Universit
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel
…hosted receptions, including for Prince Christian of Hesse and his American wife, the former Elizabeth Reid Rogers. On June 29, 1889, Elizabeth married John Vinton Dahlgren (1869–1899), a graduate from Georgetown University and the son of Admiral John A. Dahlgren (1809–1870) at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City…
Dahlgren in 1889
Dahlgren Memorial Library Georgetown University Medical Center