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...Married. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of Paris Singer, of Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...
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