Mary Benedict Cushing
Videos
Mary Benedict Cushing Astor Fosburgh was an American socialite, philanthropist and art collector.
Cushing lived at 32 East 64th Street in Manhattan
Vincent Astor
Videos
William Vincent Astor was an American businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family.
Mary Benedict Cushing
…Settlement. During World War II, she was a leader in the Ship Service Committee and New York City War Fund. In 1940, she married for the first time to William Vincent Astor (1891–1959), son of Colonel John Jacob Astor IV and Ava Lowle Willing. It was Astor's second marriage, his first to Helen Dinsmore Huntington, ended…
Astor in 1912
On the cover of Time, February 6, 1928
Ferncliff, the Astor family's country estate in Rhinebeck, New York
Helen Dinsmore Huntington