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Marion Graves Anthon Fish. Marion Graves Anthon Fish ( nickname, "Mamie"; June 8, 1853 – May 25, 1915), often referred to by contemporaries as Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, [1] was an American socialite and self-styled "fun-maker" of the Gilded Age. She and her husband, Stuyvesant Fish, maintained stately homes in New York City and Newport, Rhode Island.
- American
- Livingston Fish, Marian Anthon Fish, Stuyvesant Fish Jr., Sidney Webster Fish
- "Mamie", Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
- John Anthon (grandfather)
Aug 19, 2021 · Born in 1853, Marion Graves Anthon was the daughter of Sarah Attwood and William Henry Anthon. In 1876, she made an advantageous match when she married her childhood sweetheart, Stuyvesant Fish, a businessman and son of former Secretary of State Hamilton Fish.
Jul 17, 2012 · When Marion Graves Anthon Fish a.k.a. "Mamie" decided she wanted a cottage in Newport, she wasn't thinking of a French chateau or a French Renaissance palace, but a colonial estate, American through and through.
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May 9, 2020 · The most irreverent broad of the Gilded Age, Marion ("Mamie") Fish did not shine with beauty. Nore with education. Heavyset, stern, barely literate, and often quite rude, whatever she lacked in graces she more than made up for in quick wit and acidic tongue.
- Buying entire villages and rerouting trains. In the late 1800s, John D. Rockefeller began buying up land in Westchester, New York. By 1913, he had built Kykuit, an impressive estate boasting over 3,400 acres of land.
- Building a gold bathroom. In 1878, the Garrett family (known for their success in the railroad industry) moved into the Evergreen estate in Baltimore.
- Shipping in bugs from Brazil. For socialite Mary Astor Paul’s debutante ball in 1906, over 10,000 Brazilian butterflies were hidden behind netting attached to the ceiling.
- Tricking out their pads. Although no longer flushed with money, the Vanderbilts were once the poster family of the Gilded Age. Built in 1889, the staggeringly large Biltmore Estate is still the largest private estate in the country, with 178,926 square feet of floor space.
Jan 19, 2022 · Famed for her quick wit and fun-loving temperament, Marion ‘Mamie’ Graves Anthon Fish (wife of railroad tycoon Stuyvesant Fish), was the hostess-with-the-mostess of the era, throwing some of its most spectacular and talked about parties. At one, the guest of honour was a pet monkey, dubbed ‘Prince Del Drago of Corsica', while at another ...
Marion "Mamie" Graves Anthon Fish is an American socialite and "fun-maker" in New York society. She is generally referred to as Mrs. Fish or Mamie Fish. Mrs. Fish is based on a real-life historical figure. She and her husband maintain homes in New York City, as well as Newport, Rhode Island. Her husband doesn't feature in the series. Her daughter Marian is seen in season 1. The series depicts ...
