American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. She was born Marie Norton on April 12, 1903, in New York to Sheridan Shook Norton, an attorney, and Beulah Sanfield Einstein, who wed in 1901. Her maternal grandparents were Rosanna Cullen and Benjamin Franklin Einstein, attorney to the New York Times and a shareholder in several advertising companies. She attended Miss Spence's School, graduating in 1922. On March 5, 1923, she married Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992) in Paris, the first of his eventual four wives. they had two children. In 1930, Marie remarried, to W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), a businessman and son of railroad baron Edward H. Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell. Harriman died of a heart attack on September 26, 1970, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C..
American art collector and First Lady of New York from 1955 to 1958. She was born Marie Norton on April 12, 1903, in New York to Sheridan Shook Norton, an attorney, and Beulah Sanfield Einstein, who wed in 1901. Her maternal grandparents were Rosanna Cullen and Benjamin Franklin Einstein, attorney to the New York Times and a shareholder in several advertising companies. She attended Miss Spence's School, graduating in 1922. On March 5, 1923, she married Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992) in Paris, the first of his eventual four wives. they had two children. In 1930, Marie remarried, to W. Averell Harriman (1891–1986), a businessman and son of railroad baron Edward H. Harriman and Mary Williamson Averell. Harriman died of a heart attack on September 26, 1970, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C..
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