Caroline Berryman Spencer

Caroline Suydam Berryman was born on December 28, 1861, in New Haven, Connecticut, to a very wealthy and socially prominent family. She was a daughter of Charles Henry Berryman (1833–1893){{cite news |title=DIED |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/09/08/109706672.html |access-date=March 17, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 8, 1893}} and Harriett (née Whitney) Berryman (1838–1912) of the Whitney family.{{cite book |title=Supreme Court, County of New York |date=1882 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=An_l8qd4CxAC&pg=RA5-PA95 |access-date=March 17, 2020}}{{cite news |title=DIED |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/09/24/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=March 17, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 24, 1912}} Her siblings included Henry Whitney Berryman (husband of Edith "Esta" Green of Goole, England) and Georgiana Louise Berryman (wife of Swiss merchant Henry Casimir de Rham).{{cite news |title=MRS. H.C. DE RHAM SUCCUMBS IN HOME; Former Georgianna Berryman Ex-Chairman of Women's Group at City Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/05/19/archives/mrs-hc-de-rham-succumbs-in-home-former-georgianna-berryman.html |access-date=March 17, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 19, 1946}}{{cite web |title=Mrs. H. Casimir de Rham (1868-1946) |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/mrs-h-casimir-de-rham-1868-1946 |website=www.nyhistory.org |publisher=New-York Historical Society |access-date=March 17, 2020}} Their paternal grandparents were Edwin Upshur Berryman and Maria (née Coster) Berryman, who both died young.{{cite book |last1=Clay |first1=Henry |title=The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Whig, March 5, 1829-December 31, 1836 |date=2015 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-5672-9 |page=402 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJwfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA402 |access-date=17 March 2020}} The siblings' maternal grandparents were Hannah (née Lawrence) Whitney and Henry Whitney{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=William Northey |title=The History of St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey: The Oldest Congregation of the Church in the State of New Jersey, from Its Organization in 1698 to the Year of Our Lord 1923, and the Celebration of the 225th Anniversary of the Parish, Also a Genealogy of the Families Buried in the Churchyard |date=1924 |publisher=Patterson Press |page=199 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KbVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA199 |access-date=March 17, 2020}} (a son of Harriet (née Suydam) Whitney and Stephen Whitney, one of the wealthiest merchants in New York City). Other relatives were aunts Cornelia Lawrence Whitney (the wife of John Gerard Heckscher), Maria Whitney (wife of Robert Cambridge Livingston from the Livingston family), and Caroline Suydam Whitney (wife of Cornelius Fellowes).{{cite book |last1=Phoenix |first1=Stephen Whitney |title=The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878 |date=1878 |publisher=Priv. Print. [Bradford Press] |page=2542 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZdQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2542 |access-date=17 March 2020}}

File:Lorillard S. Spencer by Mary Helen Carlisle.jpg by Mary Helen Carlisle, 1888.]]

On October 3, 1882, she married Lorillard Spencer Jr. (1860–1912), a son of Lorillard Spencer and Sarah (née Griswold) Spencer of the Griswold family.{{cite news |title=LORILLARD SPENCER IS DEAD.; Prominent In Society and Clubs Here and in Newport. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/03/15/archives/lorillard-spencer-is-dead-prominent-in-society-and-clubs-here-and.html |access-date=March 17, 2020 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 15, 1912}} His paternal grandparents were Eleanora Eliza (née Lorillard) Spencer (daughter of Pierre Lorillard II) and William Augustus Spencer (son of U.S. Representative Ambrose Spencer and brother of John Canfield Spencer, the U.S. Secretary of War and Treasury).{{cite book |last1=Weeks |first1=Lyman Horace |title=Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City |date=1898 |publisher=Historical Company |page=516 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyRKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA516 |access-date=March 17, 2020}} Among his siblings was sister, Eleanor Spencer (wife of Don Virginius Cenci, 6th Prince of Vicovaro) and brother William Augustus Spencer, who died aboard the Titanic.{{cite encyclopedia |title=William Augustus Spencer : Titanic Victim |url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-augustus-spencer.html |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Titanica |access-date=March 17, 2020}} Together, they were the parents of two daughters who died in infancy, and a son, who also predeceased her:

• Lorillard Suydam Spencer (1883–1939), who served as president of Atlantic Aircraft and married Mary Ridgeley Sands in 1905.{{cite news|title=Popular Society Beauty who will be Bride of Spencer Lorillard|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1905-09-19/ed-1/seq-5/|access-date=February 3, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Times|date=September 19, 1905|page=5}}{{cite book |last1=Sands |first1=Benjamin Aymar |title=The Direct Forefathers and All the Descendants of Richardson Sands: Together with the Genealogies of My Direct Maternal Ancestors |date=1916 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx1PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13 |access-date=March 17, 2020 }} After their divorce in 1922, he married Katherine Emmons Force.{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 6, 1922|title=Miss Force Weds Lorillard Spencer. Daughter of Mrs. Wm. H. Force Married in Home of Her Sister, Mrs. Wm. K. Dick |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E00E6D91E3FE432A25754C0A9649D946395D6CF&legacy=true }}
• Lynette Suydam Spencer (1885–1887), who died young.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
• Nina Gladys Spencer (1888–1888), who died in infancy.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

They had a home in Newport known as Chastellux, "one of the most beautiful places in that city." After the death of her husband, who owned The Illustrated American, Spencer became a missionary in the Philippines.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Lorillard Spencer To Run Mission In Jolo |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/339857752.html?dids=339857752:339857752&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+05,+1913&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MRS.+LORILLARD+SPENCER+TO+RUN+MISSION+IN+JOLO.&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104072336/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/339857752.html?dids=339857752:339857752&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+05,+1913&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MRS.+LORILLARD+SPENCER+TO+RUN+MISSION+IN+JOLO.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 5, 1913 |access-date=October 19, 2010}}{{cite news |title=Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Wealthy Widow, Goes To Philippine Islands to be Missionary |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X6BdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8VwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3869,7903873&dq=lorillard+spencer+jolo&hl=en |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 5, 1913 |access-date=November 26, 2012 }} She died at age 86 on April 6, 1948, at her home, Blue Bird Cottage, in Newport, Rhode Island.{{cite news |title=Mrs. L. Spencer Dies In Home At Newport |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/07/archives/mrs-l-spencer-dies-in-home-at-newport.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 7, 1948 |access-date=October 19, 2010 }} She was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

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