Carroll Livingston Wainwright I

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Carroll Livingston Wainwright (December 2, 1899 – July 6, 1967) was an artist.

Contents 1 Birth 2 Marriage and divorce 3 Death 4 Selected coverage in the New York Times

[edit] Birth

He was born on December 2, 1899 in Philadelphia to Stuyvesant Wainwright and Caroline Smith Snowden.

[edit] Marriage and divorce

He married Edith Gould (1900-1937). She was the daughter of millionaire George Jay Gould I (1864-1923) and Edith M. Kingdon (1864-1921). Time magazine reported their divorce on February 8, 1932:

Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould I; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright I, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray MacNeal, 53, Scottish shipowner.

[edit] Death

He died in 1967 on Long Island.

[edit] Selected coverage in the New York Times

• New York Times; May 27, 1920; page 1; "Miss Edith Gould a runaway bride after motor trip"
• New York Times; May 21, 1931; page 24; "C. Wainwright wins competency hearing"
• New York Times; January 26, 1932; page 25; "Edith Gould gets divorce, is rewed"
• New York Times; December 01, 1934; page 15; "C.L. Wainwright, Jr. here as stowaway"
• New York Times; July 7, 1967; "Carroll Wainwright, artist and member of Long Island family, dies"