Jane Engelhard
Jane Engelhard | |
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Born | Mary Jane Reiss August 12, 1917 Nantucket, Massachusetts , U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Philanthropist |
Spouses | |
Children | Annette de la Renta (b. 1939) |
Jane Engelhard (August 12, 1917 – February 29, 2004), born Mary Jane Reiss,
Family and early life
Born in
Reiss had two elder sisters by her parents' marriage:
- Barry Jeannette Reiss, 1914–1970, later known as Reiss-Brian and Reis-Brian
- Madeleine Huguette Reiss, 1916–1994, later Reiss-Brian, married 1 Major Rupert Charles Frederick Gerard, and 2 Lawrence Hoguet
- Anthony Gerard, 5th Baron Gerard of Bryn).
After her parents' divorce, her mother married French merchant and former theatre critic Guy Louis Albert Brian (1891–1955) in 1928. They had two daughters:
- Marie-Brigitte Brian (1928-), married Count Bernard de La Rochefoucauld Estissac[12]
- Anne Patricia de la Le Rochefoucauld Estissac
- Edmond de la Le Rochefoucauld Estissac
- Paul de la Le Rochefoucauld Estissac
- Sabine de la Le Rochefoucauld Estissac, married Pierre Louis de la Rochefoucauld, Duc d'Estissac[13]
- Sophie Rose de la Le Rochefoucauld Estissac, a nun
- Patricia "Bébé" Brian (1930-), married Jacques Bemberg
- Jean-Charles Bemberg
- Marie Bemberg
- Claude Bemberg
All five daughters were raised as Catholics, with the three Reiss girls spending their infancy and early childhood in Shanghai, China. After Marie (Murphy) Reiss separated from Reiss in the late 1920s, she and her children moved to Paris, where she remarried and where Jane graduated from Couvent des Oiseaux, a fashionable Roman Catholic school; its alumni included the future Vietnamese empress Nam Phương.[14]
First marriage
On 1 June 1939, at Villa Monte Cristo,
The couple had one child, born in
- Anne France Mannheimer (now known as Annette de la Renta) (b. 1939)[15]
Second marriage
Jane Mannheimer moved first to London, then to Buenos Aires, then to New York City after her first husband's death. In 1947 she was named vice president of the merchandising division of Holbrook Microfilming Service, a company which was headed by president
On 18 August 1947, in New York City, New York,
The Engelhards had five daughters:
- Susan Mary Engelhard[19] (married, in 1972, Roy Sayles O'Connor)[20]
- Sophie Jane Engelhard[21] (married Derek Craighead)[22]
- Sally Alexandra Engelhard (married, in 1978, Sumner Pingree III)[23]
- Charlene B. Engelhard (married, in 1985, John Troy)[24]
Charles Engelhard also adopted his wife's daughter from her first marriage.
Philanthropy
Engelhard was a patron of numerous causes and institutions, including the
In 1977, Engelhard was the first woman appointed as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Death
Engelhard died of pneumonia on February 29, 2004, at her home in Nantucket, Massachusetts.[14]
References
- ^ Passport records and ship manifests back to 1918, accessed on ancestry.com on 16 July 2019, cite Mary Jane for the first decade of her life.
- ^ "Ex-Shanghai Girl Helps Straighten Bank Affairs", The China Monthly Review, 1939
- ^ Vanity Fair Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Death year given in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995, which cites the probate of his will; accessed on ancestry.com on 16 July 2019
- ^ Date cited in Baden, Germany Emigration Index, 1866-1911, accessed on ancestry.com on 17 July 2019
- ^ Reiss later opened a successor firm, Hugo Reiss & Co. in Shanghai, for which he was the founder and managing director and which was a contractor to the Chinese government. He was also secretary of the Senawang Rubber Estates Co., Ltd. and a vice-president of Andersen, Meyer & Co. (which helped established General Electric in China. He also was on the board of directors of The China Press, an American newspaper in China, and the Shanghai Tannery Co.
- ^ According to a passenger manifest of the S.S. Berengaria, dated 10 October 1924, Hugo Reiss (his own spelling of his surname) declared himself to be 44 years old, born in Michelfeld, Germany, of Hebrew "Race or People", a naturalized Brazilian citizen, and a resident of Shanghai. He described himself as the Brazilian consul in Shanghai and gave his American address as c/o his brothers, Julius H. and Ben Reiss, whose offices were at 894–900 Broadway, New York City. Julius and Ben were the owners of G. Reis & Bro, (Manufacture and sale of initials, labels, and trimming). He also cited the address of a cousin, Sidney Reiss, Wilbraham Road, Manchester, England. See www.ellisisland.org.
- ^ Her birth name, per passports and signatures, was Marie Ignatius Murphy but she gave her name as Marie Valerie Murphy on her marriage license.
- ^ Marie's brother James Ignatius Murphy, a marine engineer for Standard Oil turned painter, went by the alias Borge Therkelsen and J. J. Murphy and was sentenced to serve 0-14 years in the California State Prison at Folsom in 1938 on charges of white slavery, per passport applications, criminal records, and photographs accessed on ancestry.com on 16 July 2019. He also had been imprisoned previously on charges of grand larceny and was sent to San Quentin Prison. After his release, he became a machinist.
- ^ Gross, Michael Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art p. 379
- ^ A portrait photograph of Marie Murphy Reiss by Arnold Genthe is in the AMICO Public Collection of the Library of Congress, dated 30 October 1919. Its identification number is LC-G432-3060.
- ^ Michael Gross, Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals (Random House, 2010), page 284
- ^ "French nobles give Bastille Day right royal 'non'". The Irish Times.
- ^ a b Martin, Douglas (March 3, 2004). "Jane Engelhard, 86, Fixture In Society and Philanthropy". The New York Times. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
- ^ Subsequently known as Annette Engelhard, through her adoption by her mother's second husband, she is now the widow of the fashion designer Oscar de la Renta.
- ^ "Heads New Division", The New York Times, 21 April 1947
- ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly, 26 September 1947, page 28
- ^ Engelhard was the son of a self-made German immigrant, Charles W. Engelhard Sr., who came to the United States at the end of the 19th century from Hanau. His mother also was a German immigrant.
- ^ "Susan M. Engelhard Has Debut in Jersey". The New York Times.
- ^ "Roy O'Connor Marries Miss Susan Engelhard". The New York Times. 31 December 1972.
- ^ "Sophie Engelhard is Presented to Society at a Dinner Dance". The New York Times.
- ^ "Sophie Craighead - Jackson Hole Magazine". 15 December 2012.
- ^ "Sumner Pingree 3d and Sally Engelhard, Trinity Alumna, Wed". The New York Times. 5 February 1978.
- ^ Social Register, Social Register Association., 1986, page 12
- ^ She served less than a year, however, claiming that "my role as a commissioner conflicts with my family responsibilities and is far more time-consuming than I had anticipated" (The New York Times, 14 December 1977).
Sources
- "Fritz Mannheimer, Financier, Is Dead," The New York Times, 11 August 1939, page 19.
- "Action Follows Shortly After Mannheimer's Death–House Granted Government Loans," The New York Times, 12 August 1939, page 1.
- "Mendelssohn Lost Heavily on Bonds; Huge Fortune of Mannheimer Is Believed to Have Been Lost in His Operations ," The New York Times, 14 August 1939, page 7.
- "Trustees Named for Mendelssohn," The New York Times, 15 August 1939, page 32.
- "Holland Unmoved by Bank's Crisis," The New York Times, 21 August 1939, page 23.
- "Daladier Testifies in War Guilt Court," The New York Times, 23 September 1940, page 5.
- "Met Painting Traced to Nazis," The New York Times, 24 November 1987, page C19.
- "Records at the Met Disprove Charge of Acquiring 5 Paintings Improperly," The New York Times, 25 November 1987, C11.
- "Post-War Story," Time, 21 August 1939.
- Brief biography of Mannheimer