Daughter of James Jerome Hill and Mary Theresa Mehegan, wife of Anson McCook Beard, the son of Oliver Thomas Beard and Elizabeth Mosgrove, whom she married on April 3, 1902 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Wife of Pierre Lorillard, the son of Pierre Lorillard and Emily Taylor, whom she married on January 19, 1931 in Manhattan, New York.

Wife of Emile John Heidsieck, the son of Adolf Wilhelm Freidrich Heidseick and Elaine L.D. Wilden, whom she married on October 8, 1941 in Tuxedo Park, Orange, New York.

Marriage - St. Paul, Minn., April 2 - At noon today, in the family residence, Summit Avenue, occurred the wedding of Miss Ruth Hill, daughter of President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern Railway and North Securities Company, and Anson McCook Baird, an attorney of New York City. Only 139 guests were invited, the bride desiring a quiet wedding. Mgr. Anatole Oster, who officiated at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. James J. Hill, was an honored guest today, but the ceremony was performed by Archbishop John Ireland, assisted by Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons of this city, both in the full vestments of their office. The bride was attended to her place before the clergymen in the drawing room by her father, who presented her to the groom. She was assisted by her sister, Miss Rachel Hill, as bridesmaid, while Fred Dalhgren was best man for the groom. Music was furnished by the Danz symphony orchestra, with organ accompaniment by G.A. Fairclough of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. An informal reception followed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Baird will reside in New York City, and the honeymoon will be spent at North Oaks, Mr. Hill's summer home, near this city. Following a custom established at the time of Miss Hill's elder sister, Mr. Hill allowed the bride to select any picture she preferred from his splendid gallery of paintings. The bride among other presented received $250,000 in bonds from her father for pin money. One of the most magnificent presents received by the bride was a solid gold salver set by J. Pierpont Morgan. The groom's present to the bride was a handsome necklace of beaded gold, set, at intervals with rubies and emeralds and with a large emerald pendant from the circlet. This gift and a rope of pearls were the only jewels worn by the bride.

Marriage - With all the secrecy that might accompany a looting of the Bank of England, the twice widowed Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Sr. yesterday became the bride of Emile J. Heidsieck. The ceremony took place at Tuxedo Park, in the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, with the Rev. Father Patrick J. Lennon officiating. Tuxedo Park has buzzed for weeks with reports that the widow of the king of that most aristocratic retreat would take a third husband. All that her friends and neighbors knew about her suitor was that he was French. However, the friends and neighbors knew wrong. For, in spite of the fact that Mr. Heidseick is related to the famous champagne family and has lived most of his life in Belgium and France, he is an American citizen and born right here in Montclare, New Jersey. The only ones present at the wedding were members of the bride's family. These included her son-in-law and daughter, Mrs. Frederick L. Havermeyer 2d; a son, Anson McCook Beard, and two brothers-in-law and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. Erasmus Lindley and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gavin. Following the marriage, the wedding party went to the Lorillard mansion in Tuxedo Park. The house has been refurbished from top to bottom in the past couple of weeks, as the bride made ready for her bridegroom. It was in this house that 80-year-old Pierre Lorillard died August 6, 1940, leaving his proud name and a great wad of the Lorillard tobacco millions to his wife, herself an heiress of great wealth. This is second time that the former Ruth Hill found herself a widow. Her first husband, Anson McCook Beard, Sr., a great Yale athlete in his day, and a prominent figure in society, died of stroke in November, 1929. Ruth, a daughter of the late James J. Hill, one of the great railroad pioneers, married Pierre Lorillard February 3, 1931. Lorillard was the son of the first Pierre Lorillard, who founded Tuxedo Park in 1886. Originally started as a super-exclusive hunting and fishing club, Tuxedo Park today is the most exclusive residential section in the country. Even in Newport, America's society capital, a common citizen can walk or ride through the streets bordered the mansions of the rich. But in Tuxedo Park, either you are a resident, or the guest of a resident, or a servant of a resident, or you darn well can't pass through the carefully guarded gate at the entrance of the Park. Yesterday's wedding literally had the colonists at Tuxedo by the ear. None of them were invited to the ceremony, nor could they get any information about it. The bridegroom might as well resign himself to endless prying and scrutiny, as his new neighbors give him the once-over. Tuxedo Park doesn't know him and Tuxedo Park is just bursting with curiosity.

Obituary - Mrs. Ruth Hill Heidsieck, a Southampton summer resident for many years, died in New York Friday, October 2, following a long illness. Her New York residence was at 700 Park Avenue, and she spent the summers at her ocean front estate on Gin Lane. Surviving besides her husband, E. John Heidsieck, are one son, Anson McCook Beard, and a daughter, Mary Beard Havemeyer, and two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Hill Boeckman and Mrs. Gertrude Hill Gavan. A Solemn High Requiem Mass was celebrated at 10 o'clock Monday morning, in St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York.

(Ruth Hill / Anson Mccook Beard in the Minnesota, U.S., Marriages Index, 1849-1950, FHL Film Number: 1313333; The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska), 03 Apr 1902, Thursday, Page 2; Ruth H Beard / Pierre Lorillard in the New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018, License Number: 1345; Southampton press. volume, October 08, 1959, Page 6; Catholic Cemeteries of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre Inc. Burial Database)