Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Wilhelm Drexel
and Lucy (Wharton) Drexel
Sister of
Katharine Lucy (Drexel) Penrose, Lucy Wharton (Drexel) Dahlgren and Josephine Wharton Drexel
Wife of
John Vinton Dahlgren
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of
Henry Symes Lehr
— married
3 Jun 1901 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Wife of
John Graham Hope Horsley de la Poer Beresford 5th Bt
— married
25 May 1936 in Mairie of 7th Arrondissement,Paris, France
Mother of
Jospeh Drexel Dahlgren and John Vinton Dahlgren Jr
Died
at age 76
in London, England
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jul 2014
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Biography
had to flee Paris in 1940 wrote the book "King Lehr and the Gilded Age" about her own long marriage to a gay man then wrote "Turn of the World" about the New York-Newport social world.
apparently was very thrifty
Sources
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_William_Drexel
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wharton_Drexel
- http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19371102&id=5AsaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PA0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6946,133943
- http://www.newspapers.com/image/16210714/?terms=lady+decies
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