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In 1911 she married Harry Burgess, a singer in the Merry Widow. The following year the couple decided to go their separate ways. Bryan married next New York stockbroker, Charles Maitland Fair, at the home of her mother in Red Bank, New Jersey, in October 1913. Fair was the son of Robert Fair, retired managing director of Marshall Field’s, and a cousin of Virginia Fair, wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II. Their son was the noted author (“From the Jaws of Victory”; 1971) Charles M. Fair, Jr.
Bryan retired from the stage when she became engaged to Fair. She enjoyed the outdoors, especially walking, horse riding, and fishing. She confessed to being a tomboy, having worn trousers and long boots on fishing trips with her father in her youth. Bryan and Fair divorced on June 2, 1930 at The Hague, Netherlands leaving her to marry in London on the 16th of June, John W. Garrett, 2nd, a New York investment banker.
In 1945 Bryan published the book, “Count that Day” that’s copyright was recorded under the name Gertrude Bryan Knapp.
Gertrude Bryan (Gertrude B. Knapp) died on May 24, 1976 in Ossining, New York.
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