page_title: Charles May Oelrichs
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles May Oelrichs / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Mrs. Charles de Loosey Oelrichs is one of the prominent members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Oelrichs is one of the most beautiful young matrons in New York and Newport society. She has recently become interested in suffrage and took an active part in the Dansante given by the Congressional Union at Marble House, Newport, [Rhode Island], Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont's beautiful summer home.
context_page_description: Charles May Oelrichs was an American broker and clubman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
context_section_description: Oelrichs was married to Blanche de Loosey (1857–1932), the daughter of Chevalier Charles F. de Loosey, the Austrian Consul to New York.  Blanche was also the sister of Emilie de Loosey, who was married to Theodore Havemeyer, a co-founder of the Newport Country Club. Together, the family lived in a town house on Madison Square and their summer cottage in Newport.  Charles and Blanche were the parents of four children:
  Natalie "Lily" Oelrichs (1880–1931), who married polo player Peter D. Martin of San Francisco. After his death, she married Heinrich Borwin Duke of Mecklenburg (1885–1942), the son of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz, in 1915. They divorced in 1921.
  Charles de Loosey Oelrichs (1882–1973), who married Marjorie Ramely Turnbull (1883–1952), sister of suffragist Alison Turnbull Hopkins.
  Henry Edmond Oelrichs (1883–1944), who married Esther Moreland (1890–1941).
  Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890–1950), the poet and playwright who married, and divorced, three times, to Leonard Moorhead Thomas, John Barrymore and Harrison Tweed. She also had a ten-year affair with Margaret Wise Brown.
  Oelrichs died in Newport on January 15, 1932. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.  His widow died later that year.
caption: Daughter-in-law Marjorie Ramely Oelrichs and granddaughter Marjorie.
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