Word: lydig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some...
...Colonel Lydig had been a prominent financier with extensive affiliations in Wall Street. During the World War he served in both the American and Russian forces: previously he had been a partner in the stock brokerage firm of Lounsberry and Company...
According to the will of Colonel P. M. Lydig '89, who died at Nice, France, on February 16, Harvard University will receive the major portion of his large estate, upon the death of a friend, Mille. Reuee Chauchet, who is to enjoy the income from it during her lifetime...
...Married. Lydig Hoyt, Manhattan scion, onetime (1914-24) husband of Actress Julia Hoyt; to Helen Hoadley Willis of Manhattan; in Paris...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...