Mary Virginia Terhune
Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 – June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author who was prolific and bestselling in both fiction and non-fiction genres.
Born in Amelia County, Virginia, she began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland.
Her first novel "Alone " was published in 1854 and became an "emphatic success" following its second printing the next year.
For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's novels, classified then as "plantation fiction", as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines.
After marrying Presbyterian minister Edward Payson Terhune in 1856, Terhune moved with him to Newark, New Jersey and spent the remainder of her adult life in the North.
They had six children together; three died as infants.
In the 1870s, shortly after the birth of her last son Albert Payson, she published "Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery", a cookbook and domestic guide for housewives that became a huge bestseller, eventually selling more than one million copies over several editions.
Terhune began to concentrate on non-fiction, publishing additional cookbooks and domestic works, as well as biographies, travel guides, and histories.
She continued to write some novels.
She spoke as a public lecturer and was the first woman elected to the Virginia Historical Society.
In 1873, the Terhunes relocated to Europe for two years while Mary recovered from tuberculosis.
After their return, they continued living in the northeastern United States, moving as her husband's job as a pastor demanded.
After breaking her wrist in her seventies, Terhune learned to use a typewriter.
In her 90s, she went blind, but continued work by dictating to a secretary.
Her final work, the novel "The Carringtons of High Hill", was published in 1919.
Terhune continued creating articles and essays until she died on June 2, 1922.
Over her life, she published 25 novels, 25 non-fiction works on homemaking and cooking, three short story collections, several biographies, travel guides and histories, and numerous essays, articles, and serial works.
Two of her children, Christine Terhune Herrick and Albert Payson Terhune, became noted writers as well, with Herrick following in her mother's footsteps as an authority of domestic matters, and Albert Terhune becoming notable for his novels featuring collies.
Her middle child, Virginia Van de Water, also became a writer, though less well known.
Late in life, Mary Terhune co-wrote works with each of them.
Jacobus van de Water
Jacobus Benjamin van de Water was mayor and auditeur of the city of New Amsterdam ca. 1673.
Van de Water was born in 1643 to Benjamin Jacobus Van de Water, and Eijsbet de Maersman, from Rotterdam.
His parents from emigrated to America in 1651, settling in New Amsterdam; he himself followed in 1658.
Once settled, Jacobus Van de Water married Engeltje Jurriaens.
Ruth Van de Water
Ruth Van de Water is an assistant physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy ’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
She was also named a finalist in the postdoctoral category of the New York Academy of Sciences ’ Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2011.
Van de Water was one of six postdoctoral fellows and seven university faculty members chosen as finalists out of 150 applications for that year.
Of those, four were chosen as winners.
George Roe Van De Water
George Roe Van De Water( April 25, 1854 – March 15, 1925) was an Episcopal priest and a major proponent of the compatibility of Freemasonry with Christianity.
A prominent American of Dutch descent, he was a graduate of the General Theological Seminary and a member of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York and the Holland Society of New York.
Van De Water was born in Flushing, New York to John Titus Van Der Water and Ellen Fowler.
He is a descendant of Jacobus van de Water, one of the last Dutch mayors of New York City.
Van Der Water earned a B.S. from Cornell University in 1874, where he later became an alumnus trustee.
In 1879 he married Cornelia Townsend Youngs of Oyster Bay, a descendant of Elizabeth Fones.
Van De Water served as the rector of Christ Church in Oyster Bay, and accompanied Theodore Roosevelt to Cuba during the Spanish American War and became the chaplain of the 71st New York Volunteers.
He served as rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church( New York City) in Harlem from 1880 to 1920, as well as the chaplain of Columbia University from 1892 to 1905.
After retiring from St. Andrew's he became the rector of the Church( later Chapel) of the Beloved Disciple in Manhattan's Upper East Side, which later became St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church.
Jerrold Wexler
Jerrold Wexler( June 27, 1924 – November 10, 1992) was a noted American businessman and film producer.
He was the brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler and the stepfather of actress Daryl Hannah.
Virginia Terhune Van de Water
Virginia Terhune Van de Water (1865–1945) was a writer.
Three of her stories were adapted to film: "If My Country Should Call" (1916), "The Lesson" (1917), and "Two Sisters" (1929).
Vandewater was born in Newark, New Jersey.
She was the daughter of author Mary Virginia Terhune and had siblings who also became writers (Albert Terhune and Christine Terhune Herrick).
Her story "
In the Web of Life" ran in the "Los Angeles Herald".
Her book "From Kitchen to Garret" (1910) is a guide to housekeeping.
Her book
"Why I Left My Husband, and Other Human Documents of Married Life", a volume of stories originally published in 1912 in "Good Housekeeping" and "The Cosmopolitan", has been described by the literary critic Susan Fraiman as "a collection of painfully disillusioned tales, unvarnished renderings of marital alienation from multiple perspectives, including that of a daughter driven from home to escape the cross fire.
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The stories describe various couples, some of whom remain separated and some of whom remain in unhappy marriages, and provide moral and emotional rationalizations for divorce.
Towards the end of World War I, two pamphlets by Van de Water, entitled "Women and Bolshevism" and "What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American", were published by the National Security League.
Morris Harvey
Morris Harvey( 1877– 1944) was a British actor and writer.
A renowned character actor, he also wrote for the stage, including material for Broadway revues, in which he also appeared.
He was the stepfather of film director Anthony Harvey.
Charles F. Van de Water
Charles F. Van de Water( October 12, 1872 – November 20, 1920) was a Republican politician in California.
He was born in Hobart, New York.
He won a seat to the United States House of Representatives from California's 9th congressional district in the 1920 election by defeating the Prohibition party incumbent, Charles H. Randall.
Van de Water died in a car crash before assuming office, and Republican Walter F. Lineberger later won a special election to his seat.
Gerald Rudolff Ford
Gerald Rudolff Ford( December 9, 1890 – January 26, 1962) was an American businessman, creator of Ford Industries, and Republican politician who was the stepfather of U.S. President Gerald Ford and for whom Ford legally changed his name.
Héctor Barrantes
Héctor Barrantes Sansoni( 1939–1990) was an Argentine polo player.
He was the stepfather of Sarah, Duchess of York.

Question: Who is the father of Virginia Terhune Van De Water?
Answer: Edward Payson Terhune