page_title: Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Hobart Chatfield-Taylor / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: The face and shoulders of a young white woman. She is wearing a high-necked lacy garment, and had her hair in an updo with a short fringe.
context_page_description: Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor was an American writer, novelist, and biographer. He was considered a top authority on Molière.
context_section_description: In 1890, he was married to Rose Farwell, daughter of former United States Senator Charles B. Farwell. Her sister, Anna, was the wife of composer Reginald de Koven. His wife's portrait was painted by the Swiss-born American society painter Adolfo Müller-Ury, three quarter-length in 1893 (exhibited at Knoedler's New York Gallery in February 1894), and half-length drawing on a pair of white gloves in 1894 (exhibited at Knoedler's New York Gallery in January 1895); both are unlocated. Together, they were the parents of three sons and one daughter:
  Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor (1891–1982), who married Hendricks Hallett Whitman in 1912. They divorced in 1932, and she married William Davies Sohier Jr. in 1940.
  Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (1893–1967), who served as Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  Otis Chatfield-Taylor (1899–1948), a writer, playwright, editor, theatrical producer who married Janet Benson in 1931. They divorced in 1934, and he married Marochka Borisovna Anisfeld, a daughter of Boris Anisfeld, in 1936.
  Robert Farwell Chatfield-Taylor (1908–1980), who married Valborg Edison Palmer in 1928.
  After the death of his first wife in 1918, he remarried to Estelle (née Barbour) Stillman, the widow of George S. Stillman and daughter of George Harrison Barbour, in 1920.
  Chatfield-Taylor died at his home in California on January 17, 1945.
caption: Image of his first wife, Rose Farwell, in 1901
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