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She met Winthrop Rutherfurd for a bicycle ride along with her mother and some other friends in Riverside Park in Manhattan, but when they drew back from the rest of the crowd, Winthrop quickly and clandestinely proposed to Consuelo—and she accepted. If it sounds like the lovers were in a hurry, it’s because they were.
Winthrop Rutherfurd died on March 19, 1944 and is buried next to his first wife, Alice Morton Rutherfurd and his second wife, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd in the family plot, Tranquility Cemetery, New Jersey. - by Mary Renaud Sources .
Winthrop Rutherfurd married Alice Polk(1917-2009) in 1940. She was the daughter of Frank Lyon Polk and Elizabeth Potter Polk. They spent most of their life in New York City, Fisher Island, NY and Allamuchy, NJ. They had five children, Winthrop Jr., Lewis, Alice, James, and Linda.
Winthrop Rutherfurd's name would pop up again in history books, not for dogs, but for his love life. He was secretly engaged to Consuelo Vanderbilt, but her mother forced them to end the relationship. She had a duke in mind for Consuelo. In 1902, Winthrop married Alice Morton, the daughter of the former Vice President and Governor of New York.
Winthrop and Alice Rutherfurd’s advantage was that their setting of great natural beauty had been in the Rutherfurd family for generations. The Rutherfurd presence in this area of New Jersey dates back to the mid-eighteenth century with the marriage of Walter Rutherfurd, recently arrived from Scotland to fight in the French and Indian War, to Catherine Alexander Parker in 1758.
Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; March 2, 1877 – December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the American Vanderbilt family.Her first marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages common during the Gilded Age.
25 de jul. de 2011 · Rutherfurd's ties to Aiken date from 1920 when she married Winthrop Rutherfurd, who was already in the habit of wintering in Aiken. He spent most of the year at his estate in New Jersey.
