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 https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/madeleine-talmage-astor.html#google_vignette http://theesotericcuriosa.blogspot.com/2012/12/madeleine-and-her-men-social-exercise.html 1893 1893 June 19 – Madeleine Talmage Force is born Her father: William Hurlbut Force (May 11, 1852 – May 19, 1917) was an American merchant who owned the successful shipping firm William H. Force and Co. (established in 1873) at 78 Front Street, NYC, and was also director o the Staten Island Rapid Transit R.R. Co., and United Casualty Co., and the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. The Force family was part of Brooklyn High Society. (source Wiki) Her mother: Katherine Arvilla Talmage (1863–1930) Madeleine's maternal grandfather was New York State Assemblyman Tunis V. P. Talmage and her great-grandfather, Thomas G. Talmage, was Mayor of Brooklyn.[4] She is also distantly related to Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, who served directly under George Washington in the American War of Independence....

1916 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/01/19/100185479.html?pageNumber=11 MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR GIVES DINNER DANCE Hostess at the First Private Entertainment at Astor Residence Since Her Marriage. GREAT ARRAY OF SOCIETY Gold Service Is Used on Mrs. Astor's Table — 350 Guests Dance in the Picture Gallery. Mrs. John Jacob Astor was the hostess last night at the first private entertainment she has held since her marriage, in the Astor residence, 840 Fifth Avenue. On two occasions she lent her house for charitable affairs. The entertainment began with a dinner and ended with dancing and a supper. The dinner guests numbered 200. Mrs. Astor presided at a table seating thirty guests, which was placed in the dining room, and in each corner was a table seating twenty guests. The other tables were arranged around the fountain in the large inner hall. The gold service was used on the hostess's table and pink flowers adorned all of the tables. After the dinner 50 or more addi...

 

1933 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/01/31/99207737.html?pageNumber=21 JOHN JACOB ASTOR REPORTED ENGAGED Italian Admiral's Daughter Says Donna Cristiana Tor- Ionia Is to Be His Bride. DENIED BY GIRL'S MOTHER  Mr. Astor Will Receive $3,000,000 in August - Reported Fiancee Daughter of Italian Prince. MILAN, Italy, Jan. 30 (AP) The engagement of John Jacob Astor of New York and Donna Cristiana Torlonia, daughter of Prince Torlonia of Rome and Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia of New York, has been revealed in a letter which Admiral Camperio, retired, has received from his daughter, Luisa Maria, who is now in Annapolis, Md.  The Admiral, who recently returned from America on the Conte di Savoia, said that the young couple met at Cortina D'Ampezzo, an Italian Alpine resort, last Summer, fell immediately in love, and danced, hiked, and played tennis together. "Absurd," Says Girl's Mother MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30 (AP) Mrs. Elsie Moore Torlonia of New York toni...

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