Person:Maria Morgan (7)

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Gloria Morgan
b.23 Aug 1904 Lucerne, Switzerland
d.13 Feb 1965 Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California
Parents and Siblings
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m. 29 Jun 1897
  1. Harry Hays Morgan, Jr.1898 - 1983
  2. Consuelo Morgan1901 - 1979
  3. Gloria Morgan1904 - 1965
  4. Thelma Morgan, Viscountess Furness1904 - 1970
Spouse and Children
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m. 6 Mar 1923
  1. Gloria Laura Vanderbilt1924 -
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Gloria Morgan
Alt Name Maria Mercedes Morgan
Gender Female
Birth[1] 23 Aug 1904 Lucerne, Switzerland(twin; christened "Maria Mercedes," but everyone shortened it to "Mercy," which she hated, so she changed her name to "Gloria" shortly before her marriage)
Marriage 6 Mar 1923 New York, New York(his 2nd wife)
to Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt
Death[1] 13 Feb 1965 Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California
Burial[1] Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California
Reference Number Q534605 (Wikidata)

Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar 1923, Sect. 1, p. 6 Baton Rouge State-Times, 10 Mar 1923, p. 6

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Find A Grave.

    Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt

  2. ↑ Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

    Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt

  3.   United States. Passport applications, 1795-1925. (Washington, D.C. : National Archives).

    Name: Morgan, Mercedes
    Born: 22 Aug 1905 Lucerne, Switzerland of U.S. citizens
    Permanent residence: New York City
    Occupation: Attending school
    Father, now residing in Hamburg, Germany (American Gonsul General)
    Traveling to Germany to join parents, and to Switzerland ("temporary residence")

    Sworn to 3 Jul 1916 before Consul, Geneva, Switzerland

    Description: 10 yrs 11 mos, 5'1", medium forehead, brown eyes, normal nose, medium mouth, round chin, brown-blonde hair, fair-medium complexion, round-healthy face.

  4.   Baton Rouge (Louisiana) State-Times
    p. 23, 15 Feb 1965.

    Vanderbile Rites Slated Tomorrow

    Los Angeles.---Death has taken Gloria Morgan Vanderbile, member of a glittering socialite and financial dynasty and mother of the "poor little rich girl" whose custody she lost in a celebrated court battle.

    The 6-year-old widow of Reginald C. Vanderbilt and mother of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt Jr. died Saturday of cancer in Cedars of lebanon Hospital.

    Doctors said she apparently had recovered from major heart surgery performed in December but re-entered the hospital Feb. 2.

    Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Good Shepherd Roman Catholic church in Beverly Hills, the fashionable suburb where she had lied quietly the past decade.

    A family friend said Gloria Jr. would not attend the rites although they had reconciled. Gloria Jr., now the wife of film writer Wyatt Emory Cooper, is staying in New York on doctor's orders because of the birth of her third child Jan. 27.

    Gloria Jr. has two other children by the second of her four husbands, conductor Leopold Stokowski.

    The custody battle between Gloria Sr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, paternal aunt of Gloria Jr., made headlines 30 years ago.

    Mrs. Vanderbilt alleged the aunt had spirited away the daughter. The battle was enlivened when Mrs. Vanderbilt's mother, Laura Kilpatrick Morgan, testified against her, saying she was an unfit guardian.

    The case ended with Gloria Jr. being made a ward of the state of New York, entrusted five days a week to Mrs. Whitney's care and on weekends and one summer month annually to the mother.

    Gloria Jr. inherited the bulk of the family's $4.5 million dollar fortune in 1945 from Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New York ferry boat captain who amassed a fortune in steamships and railroads.

    Gloria Sr., her twin Thelma, Lady Furness, and their older sister Consuelo were daughters of the late Harry Hays Morgan, once in the U.S. consular service.

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