Personal Life
Mary Heaton Vorse was herself twice widowed, by her first husband, a 32 year old newspaperman who aspired to literature named Albert Vorse, whom she married in 1898 and who died in 1910; and her second, Joseph O'Brien, who died just three years after their marriage in 1912. With these men she had two sons: Heaton Vorse and Joel O'Brien.
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