page_title: Chiswell Langhorne
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Chiswell Langhorne / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Born 1847 in Danville, VA, and died 1903
context_page_description: Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
context_section_description: In 1864, while the Civil War was still in progress, Langhorne married sixteen-year-old Nancy Witcher "Nanaire" Keene (1848–1903). Together, they had a total of eleven children; eight of whom survived childhood (three children, John, Mary, and Chiswell Jr., were born and died in infancy between 1870 and 1872), including:
  Elizabeth "Lizzie" Dabney Langhorne (1867–1914), who married Thomas Moncure Perkins.
  Elisha Keene Langhorne (1869–1916), who married Sadie Reynolds. After his death, she married Perkins Ellis.
  Irene Langhorne (1873–1956), who married to American illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the "Gibson Girl", an iconic image of the early 20th century, and later owner of Life magazine.
  Harry Langhorne (1874–1907), who married to Genevieve Peyton.
  Nancy Langhorne (1879–1964), who married Robert Gould Shaw II. They divorced and she remarried to Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, eldest son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul.
  Phyllis Langhorne (1880—1937), who married Robert Brand, 1st Baron Brand.
  William "Buck" Henry Langhorne (1886–1938), who married Edith Forsyth.
  Nora Langhorne (1889—1955), who married British architect Paul Phipps (1880–1953) and, later, Maurice Flynn.
  In 1885, by which time they had at least six surviving children, he moved his family to Richmond.  By 1892, he had installed his family at Mirador, a colonnaded house in Albemarle County, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
  Langhorne died on February 14, 1919 in Richmond, Virginia following an illness of several weeks.  He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond.  In 2006, the Langhorne House in Danville was listed under the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Virginia.
caption: Langhorne's wife, Nancy Witcher Keene.
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