George & Ellinor had four children, a daughter, Ellinor C, and three sons of whom one, the first, George Robert, was a precocious child who died young from a fall. The brilliant second son, George Fauntleroy (Harvard 1885) died in 1900 aged 38, while the third, Thomas D., was a lawyer and, like his father, an inventor. She married George at Whiteport, VA, on Oct 5, 1858. They spent their honeymoon on a voyage to California via the Isthmus of Panama. She accompanied him on his field work whenever that was practicable, in spite of her physical frailty, willingly sharing the hardships of life in the primitive camps set up at observation stations on remote points on the coast. Later at their home, Ellinor was a gracious hostess to the constant stream of visitors who were attracted by her husband's vivid and magnetic personality and her "calm and controlled nature developed a mind unusually impartial and disinterested, so that her opinions were sought and valued." Doubtless these qualities and her charming humor and strong social instincts were helpful to her husband.
George & Ellinor had four children, a daughter, Ellinor C, and three sons of whom one, the first, George Robert, was a precocious child who died young from a fall. The brilliant second son, George Fauntleroy (Harvard 1885) died in 1900 aged 38, while the third, Thomas D., was a lawyer and, like his father, an inventor. She married George at Whiteport, VA, on Oct 5, 1858. They spent their honeymoon on a voyage to California via the Isthmus of Panama. She accompanied him on his field work whenever that was practicable, in spite of her physical frailty, willingly sharing the hardships of life in the primitive camps set up at observation stations on remote points on the coast. Later at their home, Ellinor was a gracious hostess to the constant stream of visitors who were attracted by her husband's vivid and magnetic personality and her "calm and controlled nature developed a mind unusually impartial and disinterested, so that her opinions were sought and valued." Doubtless these qualities and her charming humor and strong social instincts were helpful to her husband.
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