Lucy Wharton Drexel

Lucy Wharton Drexel (1867-1944) was a Manhattan socialite. cite web |url=http://nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/ResDahlgren.html |title=Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Residence |accessdate=2007-02-14 |format= |work= ]

She was the second daughter of Lucy Wharton, and Joseph William Drexel, her sister was Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Mrs. J.W. Drexel Dead. Former Social Leader of Philadelphia and Mother of Mrs. Harry Lehr. |url= |quote= |publisher=New York Times |date=January 26, 1912, Friday |accessdate=2007-07-21 ] She married Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Sr. on November 27, 1890 and they sought a divorce after 22 years of marriage in 1912. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Eric Dahlgren Dead. Grandson of Rear Admiral and Gun Inventor Stricken in Italy. |url= |quote= |publisher=New York Times |date=April 19, 1929, Friday |accessdate=2007-07-21 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Seeks to Divorce Admiral's Son. Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren Was Married to Him 22 Years Ago by Archbishop Corrigan. |url= |quote=Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren of No. 812 Madison avenue filed suit yesterday for an absolute divorce from her husband, Eric B. Dahlgren, a son of Rear Admiral Dahlgren. The complaint was written in long hand, and it was explained that the reason it had not been typewritten was that Mrs. Dahlgren wished the suit to be filed at once. |publisher=New York Times |date=March 24, 1912, Sunday |accessdate=2007-07-21 ] Eric was the son of John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren. They had a daughter, Katherine Dahlgren; and a son Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Jr. (1900-1929) who was married to Baroness Elizabeth Rosen. [Eric Bernard Dahlgren, Jr. was born on 24 April, 1900 according to the World War I draft] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Miss K. Dahlgren held for speeding. Daughter of Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren again Summoned to Court in Lenox. |url= |quote=Lenox, Massachusetts, July 20, 1915. Miss Katherine Dahlgren, third daughter of Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren, and a granddaughter of Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, was arrested this afternoon in Stockbridge on a charge of speeding her automobile ninety miles an hour on the main street and for operating the racer in a reckless manner. |publisher=New York Times |date=July 20, 1915 |accessdate=2007-07-21 ]

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