Family
He married divorcee Anna Wilmarth Thompson in 1911. She died in an automobile accident on August 31, 1935. He married Jane Dahlman (1913–1972), who was 25 at the time, on May 24, 1938, when he was 64. He had one son, Raymond, with Anna and a stepson, Wilmarth, from her first marriage. Ickes had two children with his second wife, Harold McEwen Ickes and Elizabeth Jane. He also adopted two children while married to Anna; Robert and Frances. His sister was Mary Ickes, who was married to John B. Watson, a famous American psychologist who lost his post at Johns Hopkins University due to a scandal involving his affair with a graduate student named Rosalie Rayner and subsequent divorce from Mary Ickes.
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