Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-27
Marguerite Moocrs Marshall.


One-Mrs. Edith Gaynor Vingut
daughter of the late Mayor Gaynor,
obtained a divorce from Harry X.
Vingut on Monday.
Two-Mrs. Edith Gaynor Vingut
journeyed from Reno to San Francisco
and obtained marriage license on
Tuesday
Three-Mrs. Edith Gaynor Vingut
became the wide or Lieut.. James Park
on Wednesday.
Which probably makes it a week,
SO far as the latest Gaynor romance
is concerned. But the rapid fire di-
Vorce and remarriage of the charm
ing and impulsive young woman who
is so popular n the Long Island polo
nd-country- club set to which both
Ter past and present husbands be-
long, recalls the remarkable matri-
monial record Of the children of per-
haps the most original and forceful
personality that ever occupied City
Hall. Arrows may be good enough
ammunition for Cupid's ordinary vic
Tins, but apparently he used a ma
Crime gun en- the Gaynor family
Three elope nents, an annulment, a
divorce, q renlarr'age within forty
eight hours, & mar age of the SOL
der son to the war nurse who saved
h's life-these arc a few of the chap
ter-headings in the real-life love af-
fairs of the Gaynor boys and girls,
which surely contain the makings of
more than one best-seller.
Psychologically speaking should we
be atsonished at the adventurous
Joustings with fate undertaken by
the descendants of William j. Gay
nor, himself q sophisticated, inteli-
gent, keenly alert and alive individual
during all the years of his career in
New York?
The first Gaynor of the second gen.
Grafton to leave the beaten road of
| convention for the primrose path of
romance was the oldest son, Rufus.
In December, 1908, while he was a
| student at Amherst. he eloped with a
| young woman, daughter of New
London barber, whom he knew as
Miss May Queen. a Boston music
| student. Two years later the mar
riage was annulled, as it developed
that Miss May was already a wife
whoa young Gaynor thought he mar
ried her. She was born plain Mary
| Oddo, and six months after her elope-
mont with the late mayors son her
husband, one Salvatore Cuff, sued
her Tor divorce. She must have been
| an extremely attractive young person,
as In 1911 she was welded for a third
| time, the bridegroom being Nelson
| Garlmons Harvard sophomore, said
| to have given up for her sake an in
! heritance of 100000.
For ten years after his first i'm
pulsive affair of the heart Rufus
| Gaynor remained a bachelor. But a
| little over year ago he figured in a
| second and much more charming rom
| ance. when he welded Miss Mar
garet Haskell, graduate nurse, who
| brought him back to health and
| strength after he was sent home from
! service as an ambulance driver in
| France suffering severely from she'll
| shock Mrs. Margaret Haskell Gaynor
| comes from an old New England fam
| lily, and her mother has done welfare
| work for years at Chelsea Settlement
| House
| The exceedingly recent Mrs. James
| Park was the heroine of the second
| Gaynor elopement. While her father
| was mayor of New York. in June,
| 1910, she went to Wilmington. Del,
| with Harry X. Vingut, Harvard
| graduate. broker, clubman. gentleman
| jockey and polo player. She gave her
| age at the time as nineteen, and Vim
gut acknowledged that he was thirty