Marriages
On June 23, 1930, Rockefeller married Mary Todhunter Clark. They had five children: Rodman, Ann, Steven, and twins Mary and Michael. Michael disappeared in New Guinea in 1961, presumed drowned while trying to swim to shore after his dugout canoe capsized.
Nelson and Mary were divorced in 1962. The two lived in a two-floor apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue. The 30-room apartment was renovated for the Rockefellers by Wallace Harrison and decorated by Jean-Michel Frank. She retained the apartment after the divorce.
On May 4, 1963, he married Margaretta "Happy" Murphy. He and his second wife had two children together, Nelson, Jr. and Mark. They moved to a penthouse that encompassed the top three floors at 810 Fifth Avenue. The apartment was expanded by purchasing a floor of 812 Fifth Avenue. The two spaces connected via a flight of six steps. Nelson and Happy Rockefeller used the entrance at 812 Fifth, while his first wife entered through 810 Fifth. They remained married until his death in 1979.
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Famous quotes containing the word marriages:
“If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived.”
—Bernard Devoto (1897–1955)