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Married. James Hazen Hyde, onetime (1899-1905) vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...
...work of the Hostess House began in 1927 in a tenement on Shepard Street. The present establishment was given to the Medical Department by Miss Mabel Lyman in memory of her parents Arthur Theodore and Ella Lowell Lyman. The house at the present time is not a regular part of Harvard University...
...Ella Wendel lives in the bleak red brick house that stands on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 39th Street, across the street from the (soon-to-pass) Union League Club, one block down from the Public Library, one block up from the famed department store of Lord & Taylor. All day shoppers pass the house by tens of thousands, glance curiously at the shuttered windows, the heavily barred front door. Not for 25 years have those windows or that door been opened. Only the side door is used. The house, which cost $5,000 to build, is assessed today...
...Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel, who retired about the same time as John Jacob Astor and who, like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty now worth something over $100,000,000. Since the Astor holdings are now split up among three heirs, Ella Wendel became Manhattan's land-richest individual...
...when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John had been long in the family: "Buy, but never sell."' Ella Wendel is now 80. Some day there will be no Wendels either to buy or to sell...