Louis Comfort Tiffany - Personal Life

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Louis married Mary Woodbridge Goddard (c1850-1884) on May 15, 1872 in Norwich, Connecticut and had the following children:

  • Mary Woodbridge Tiffany (1873–1963) who married Graham Lusk;
  • Charles Louis Tiffany I (1874-1874);
  • Charles Louis Tiffany II (1878–1947); and
  • Hilda Goddard Tiffany (1879–1908), the youngest.

After the death of his wife, he married Louise Wakeman Knox (1851–1904) on November 9, 1886. They had the following children:

  • Louise Comfort Tiffany (1887–1974), who married Rodman Drake DeKay Gilder;
  • Julia DeForest Tiffany (1887–1973), who married Gurdon S. Parker then married Francis Minot Weld;
  • Annie Olivia Tiffany (1888–1892); and
  • Dorothy Trimble Tiffany (1891–1979), who, as Dorothy Burlingham, later became a noted psychoanalyst and lifelong friend and partner of Anna Freud.

Tiffany died on January 17, 1933, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.>

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