Cora Randolph Trimble (May 29, 1871 – December 31, 1946) was an American socialite during the
Gilded Age.[1]
Early life
Cora was born on May 29, 1871, and grew up at Brookwood, the family home in
Mount St. Vincent on the
Hudson River.[2] She was the daughter of Edmund Dutilh Fitz Randolph, a banker and insurance executive, and Helen Earle (
née Lothrop) Randolph.[3] Among her siblings was Mary Welsh Randolph,[4] who married Francis Egerton Webb, brother-in-law of
Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb and the son of
AmbassadorJames Watson Webb.[5]
She was descended from the Fitz Randolph family that settled in
Cape Cod in the early part of the 17th century.[5] Her paternal grandparents were Dr. Charles Fitz and Margaret (née Gooch) Randolph and her uncle was
Wallace F. Randolph, a
United States Armymajor general who became the first U.S. Army Chief of Artillery.[6]
Society life
In 1892, Cora, who was then unmarried, was included in
Ward McAllister's "
Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[7][8] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into
Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[9]
Richard Trimble Jr. (d. 1941),[13] who was captain of the 1926 crew team at
Harvard College.[14] He married Winifred Loew.[13]
Margaret Randolph Trimble (1901–1968), who married Count Giovanni Revedin (1904–1990), the Italian diplomatic representative to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, in 1939.[15][5]
Mary Trimble, who married Perry R. Pease,[16] a member of the Jockey Club who sat on the executive committee of the Turf and Field Club.[17]
Cora died at her home, 1020 Madison Avenue in New York City, on December 31, 1946. She was buried at the Westbury Friends Cemetery in
Westbury, New York.[1]