Richard Thornton Wilson
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Richard Thornton Wilson was a multimillionaire American investment banker known for being the father of five children who all married into prominent families during the Gilded Age of New York.
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Wilson's youngest daughter, Grace Wilson Vanderbilt (1870–1953)
Mary Wilson Goelet
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Mary Rita Goelet, known as May Goelet, was an American socialite and member of a family known as "the marrying Wilsons".
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…York society". Because of their children's advantageous marriages, the Wilsons were known in New York and Newport society as the "marrying Wilsons." Mary Rita "May" Wilson (1855–1929), who married Ogden Goelet (1851–1897) in 1878 Marshall Orme Wilson (1860–1926), who married Caroline Schermerhorn "Carrie" Astor (1861–1948…
The Goelet's New York mansion, 608 Fifth Avenue.
The Goelet's Newport residence, Ochre Court, in 1904.
May's daughter, Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, shortly after her marriage to the 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903.