Mary Hoyt Wiborg [SEP] father
Mary Hoyt Wiborg
Mary Hoyt Wiborg (January 28, 1888 – March 27, 1964) was a New York City socialite. She wrote the 1922 play "Taboo" that starred Paul Robeson.
Biography.
Mary Hoyt Wiborg was born on January 28, 1888, to Frank Bestow Wiborg in Cincinnati. Her mother was a daughter of financier Hoyt Sherman, and a niece of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman.
She had two sisters, Olga Wiborg and Sara Sherman Wiborg. Olga married Sidney Webster
daughter of Hoyt Sherman in 1882. Together they had three daughters: Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Sara Sherman Wiborg, and Olga Wiborg (1890-1937). Olga Wiborg married Sidney Webster Fish, the son of Stuyvesant Fish on September 18, 1915 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Easthampton, New York. On December 30, 1915 Sara married Gerald Murphy. He was later the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
He died of pneumonia at his home at 756 Park Avenue in New York City on May 12,