Son of Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth & Maria Ketchum Averill; he married Ellen Hardin, his step-sister, daughter of his father's 2nd wife; the marriage eventually broke down with Ellen living for some years with relatives in Kentucky, separate from Mansfield; Mansfield was arrested on 7 February 1862 in the company of suspected Confederate spy Augusta Morris in Washington, D.C.; he was placed in the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, from February thru' April 1862, when he was paroled to the custody of his father & told to remain at Saratoga Springs; for brief periods after the Civil War, he & Ellen lived together; after the Civil War, he had a career as a novelist and writer, living most of the time in New York City; threats and physical violence ended his marriage with Ellen; he wrote a series of threatening letters to his wife and various relatives; these letters were most probably the cause of his son Frank # 20151773 travelling from Saratoga Springs to New York City to confront Mansfield; Frank shot & killed his father at the Sturtevant House {hotel} in Manhattan on the morning of June 3, 1873; Frank was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned in 1877 by N. Y. Governor Lucius Robinson; see "The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America" by Geoffrey O'Brien {2010}
Son of Chancellor Reuben Hyde Walworth & Maria Ketchum Averill; he married Ellen Hardin, his step-sister, daughter of his father's 2nd wife; the marriage eventually broke down with Ellen living for some years with relatives in Kentucky, separate from Mansfield; Mansfield was arrested on 7 February 1862 in the company of suspected Confederate spy Augusta Morris in Washington, D.C.; he was placed in the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, from February thru' April 1862, when he was paroled to the custody of his father & told to remain at Saratoga Springs; for brief periods after the Civil War, he & Ellen lived together; after the Civil War, he had a career as a novelist and writer, living most of the time in New York City; threats and physical violence ended his marriage with Ellen; he wrote a series of threatening letters to his wife and various relatives; these letters were most probably the cause of his son Frank # 20151773 travelling from Saratoga Springs to New York City to confront Mansfield; Frank shot & killed his father at the Sturtevant House {hotel} in Manhattan on the morning of June 3, 1873; Frank was found guilty of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned in 1877 by N. Y. Governor Lucius Robinson; see "The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America" by Geoffrey O'Brien {2010}
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