Heiress, daughter of William Jay Schieffelin & Maria Louisa Shepard. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt was directly descended from Commodore Vanderbilt on her mother's side and from first Chief Justice and one-time Governor of New York John Jay on her father's. in 1924 she married Abram Hewitt, whose ancestors included Peter Cooper and former Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, was "one of the social events of the season," according to newspaper accounts. After the birth of her second child, however, Louise suffered a nervous breakdown and had been receiving treatment at the Riggs Sanitarium in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As Christmas approached, she traveled home to The Beechwood with her nurse, Beatrice Gosling, to spend the holidays with the family. On Wednesday, December 8, 1926 the Hewitts attended the theater. The following day Louise told her husband she planned to do Christmas shopping. Tragically, when her nurse was out of the room, she threw herself from a sixth-story window to her death in the courtyard below. she was buried in the Vanderbilt private section by her parents.
Heiress, daughter of William Jay Schieffelin & Maria Louisa Shepard. Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin Hewitt was directly descended from Commodore Vanderbilt on her mother's side and from first Chief Justice and one-time Governor of New York John Jay on her father's. in 1924 she married Abram Hewitt, whose ancestors included Peter Cooper and former Mayor Abram S. Hewitt, was "one of the social events of the season," according to newspaper accounts. After the birth of her second child, however, Louise suffered a nervous breakdown and had been receiving treatment at the Riggs Sanitarium in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As Christmas approached, she traveled home to The Beechwood with her nurse, Beatrice Gosling, to spend the holidays with the family. On Wednesday, December 8, 1926 the Hewitts attended the theater. The following day Louise told her husband she planned to do Christmas shopping. Tragically, when her nurse was out of the room, she threw herself from a sixth-story window to her death in the courtyard below. she was buried in the Vanderbilt private section by her parents.
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