Married: Jun 19, 1890, HOBART CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
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Mrs. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor
Special to the New York Times
SANTA BARBARA, Cal. April 5.––
Mrs. Rose Chatfield-Taylor, wife of Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, died tonight. Last Sunday Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor underwent an operation for appendicitis, and while her condition was serious, it was considered favorable until pneumonia developed.
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor was the daughter of the late Senator Charles H. Farwell of Illinois, and married Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, the author, June 9, 1890. For many years she had been a leader in Chicago Society.
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Classic Chicago Magazine by Megan McKinney:
Charles and Mary Farwell's youngest daughter, Rose, was, like her sisters, a recognized beauty, an attribute not well represented in the above image by the English painter John Elliott. She was also painted twice in the early 1890s by Swiss artist Adolfo Müller-Ury; however, both canvases, which were exhibited in Knoedler Gallery in New York, are missing today.
Rose was also widely known and valued for characteristics other than her appearance, some of which were athletic. She was an accomplished horsewoman and owner of a thoroughbred racer; she played an excellent game of lawn tennis and she made golf a fashionable sport for women.
In 1890, when Rose was 20, she married the intriguing Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, author, journalist, diplomat, horseman, golfing pioneer, prominent club founder and supremely self-confident social arbiter.
After Charles Farwell died in 1903, Rose, Hobart and their children lived at his Lake Forest estate, Fairlawn, and spent a portion of the year at their house in Santa Barbara, the California outpost popular with wealthy Chicagoans. Their eldest child, Adelaide, had been born while the couple was visiting London in 1891—presumably on an extended honeymoon.
Adelaide was followed by Wayne two years later, Otis in 1900, and Robert in 1908. An athlete like his parents, Wayne was a member of the Yale football team of 1915. He would also be notable while an undersecretary, twice, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet. And Robert, as second husband of Depression era super-debutante Brenda Frazier.
When the influenza epidemic of 1918 hit Santa Barbara along with much of the rest of the world, killing some 70 million people, 48-year-old Rose was stricken. She died suddenly, shattering the Farwell-Chatfield-Taylor idyll.
Following her death, Hobart decided to make Santa Barbara his full-time home and donated his library of French and Italian literature to Lake Forest College. In 1920, he married Estelle Barbour Stillman, a widow.
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Married: Jun 19, 1890, HOBART CHATFIELD-TAYLOR, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
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Mrs. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor
Special to the New York Times
SANTA BARBARA, Cal. April 5.––
Mrs. Rose Chatfield-Taylor, wife of Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, died tonight. Last Sunday Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor underwent an operation for appendicitis, and while her condition was serious, it was considered favorable until pneumonia developed.
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor was the daughter of the late Senator Charles H. Farwell of Illinois, and married Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, the author, June 9, 1890. For many years she had been a leader in Chicago Society.
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Classic Chicago Magazine by Megan McKinney:
Charles and Mary Farwell's youngest daughter, Rose, was, like her sisters, a recognized beauty, an attribute not well represented in the above image by the English painter John Elliott. She was also painted twice in the early 1890s by Swiss artist Adolfo Müller-Ury; however, both canvases, which were exhibited in Knoedler Gallery in New York, are missing today.
Rose was also widely known and valued for characteristics other than her appearance, some of which were athletic. She was an accomplished horsewoman and owner of a thoroughbred racer; she played an excellent game of lawn tennis and she made golf a fashionable sport for women.
In 1890, when Rose was 20, she married the intriguing Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, author, journalist, diplomat, horseman, golfing pioneer, prominent club founder and supremely self-confident social arbiter.
After Charles Farwell died in 1903, Rose, Hobart and their children lived at his Lake Forest estate, Fairlawn, and spent a portion of the year at their house in Santa Barbara, the California outpost popular with wealthy Chicagoans. Their eldest child, Adelaide, had been born while the couple was visiting London in 1891—presumably on an extended honeymoon.
Adelaide was followed by Wayne two years later, Otis in 1900, and Robert in 1908. An athlete like his parents, Wayne was a member of the Yale football team of 1915. He would also be notable while an undersecretary, twice, in Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet. And Robert, as second husband of Depression era super-debutante Brenda Frazier.
When the influenza epidemic of 1918 hit Santa Barbara along with much of the rest of the world, killing some 70 million people, 48-year-old Rose was stricken. She died suddenly, shattering the Farwell-Chatfield-Taylor idyll.
Following her death, Hobart decided to make Santa Barbara his full-time home and donated his library of French and Italian literature to Lake Forest College. In 1920, he married Estelle Barbour Stillman, a widow.
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Buried Apr 7, 1918
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