The New York herald., 1922-06-27
Miss SchieHelin
and a. S. Hewitt
Engaged to Wed
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam j.. Schieffelin to
Be a Bride.

Mr.. and Mrs. William Jay Schleffelin
of East Sixty-sixth street Informed
their friends yesterday of the engage
ment of their daughter. Miss Louise
Vanderbilt Sch.effelin. to Mr.. Abram
S. Hewitt. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Ringwood Hewitt OF 70! East Twenty
first street. and grandson OF the late
Mayor Abram S. Hewitt. Mr.. and Mrs.
Schieffelin and their unmarried chill
dren. with the exception of Miss Mary
jay Schieffelin. have gone to Tran
guilty Farm, their country home in
Ashville, Me. Miss Mary Schieffelin.
who has her own apartment at ~ East
Seventy-eighth street. will join the fam
lily this week. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt
and their family have moved to We
wappo Farm. their country place at
Midvale. N. j.
The engagement Is one of the most
important of the year. Both families.
while in the social foreground. have
placed stress upon civic. professional
and industrial achievement. In each
generation of each family individuals
have been noted internationally in the
advancement of science, in the improve
ment of political conditions and in the
promotion of practical philanthropic
projects as we'll as in the development
of large business affairs.
Through her father Miss Schieffelin
represents the fifth generation in de-
scent from John Jay, the first Chief
Justice of the United States, and through
of the firm of Schieffelin & Co., in exis-
tence for more than a century. Through
her mother Miss Schieffelin also is a
member of the fifth generation In de-
scent from Commodore Cornelius VAN
derbilt. Mrs. Elliott f. Shepard Is her
grandmother.
Miss Schieffelin was one of four debu-
tante cousins who figured prominently
in the affairs Of the young set last win
ter and the season before. The others
were Miss Murei Vanderbilt daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt
Miss Louise Norris. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris and also
granddaughter of Mrs Elliott F. Shep-
ard. and Miss Emily Sloane Hammond,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry
Hammond. Like her older sister. Miss
Mary Jay Schieffelin. Miss Louise v.
Schieffelin has done constructive philan-
thropic work as member of the Junior
League.
The children of Mr.. and Mrs. Schief-
relin in the order OF their age are Mr.
William Jay Schieffelin. Jr.. who married
Miss Annette Markoe; Mrs. Frederick
II. Osborn. who was Margaret L. Schief-
felin; Miss Mary Jay Schieffelin. Mr..
John Jay Schieffelin, Miss Louise ".
Schieffelin, who is twenty-one years old
this year; Mr.. Bayard Schieffelin, a
student at Harvard Mr.. Elliott Schief-
feln. Miss Barbara Schienelin and
Henry Schieffelin, the youngest. who
was born in 1909.
Mr.. Hewitt is the youngest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Ringwood Hewitt's fam
lily, and was named for his grandfather
the late Mayor Hewitt. Following the
completion of his studies here he took
a post graduate course at New College.
Oxford His older sister, Miss Candace
Hewitt. during and after the war was
actively engaged in relief work among
the Armenians in Syria and also In
France. where she was associated with
Miss Anne Morgan. Miss Lucy Hewitt.
a proficient musician, is the other sister
and Mr.. Ashley G. Hewitt, who was
graduated from Princeton in 1917, is a
brother. He. is a great grandson Of
Peter Cooper. philanthropist and
founder of Cooper Union. and nephew
of the late Peter Cooper Hewitt. the
Misses Sarah Cooper and Eleanor G..
Hewitt. Mr.. Erskine Hewitt and of Mrs.
James o. Green.