Fifteenth Generation

5190. Otis Chatfield-Taylor was born on 6 May 1899 in Lake Forest, Lake Co., Illinois, USA. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Lake Forest, Lake Co., Illinois, USA. He appeared in the census in 1910 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. Otis appeared in the census in 1940 in Croton Dam Rd., Cortlandt Town, Westchester Co., New York, USA. He died Traffic accident on 16 January 1948 at the age of 48 in Croton Dam Rd., Cortlandt Town, Westchester Co., New York, USA. He was buried on 19 January 1948 in Ossining, Westchester Co., New York, USA. O. CHATFIELD TAYLOR DIES AFTER CRASH
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 18 1948; pg. 41

O. CHATFIELD TAYLOR DIES AFTER CRASH
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Otis Chatfield-Taylor, 47, playwright and writer, who was prominent in Chicago and New York society circles, died Friday night from injuries suffered in an automobile accident near his estate at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., it was learned here yesterday.

Mr. Chatfield-Taylor was born in Lake Forest, the son of Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor and his first wife, the former Rose Farwell, who was a daughter of the late Charles H. Farwell, USA senator from Illinois.

He was editor of the Croton-on-Hudson News and formerly had held editorial posts on Newsweek, Town and Country and the Outlook magazines, and the Chicago Times.

Stage Interests Varied
His theatrical interests were varied and included walk-on parts in several plays. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor managed two Broadway shows, ran a summer stock company, and dramatized a novel of Oliver LaFarge's Pulitzer prize winner, "Laughing Boy."

On Jan. 15, 1934, Mr Chatfield-Taylor was divorced from his first wife, the former Jane Benson, in Reno, and on May 6, 1936, he was married to Marochka Anisfeld, daughter of Boris Anisfeld, Russian painter associated with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bought Old Estate
In 1945, Mr. Chatfield-Taylor purchased the 300 year old Van Cortland manor at Croton-on-Hudson.

The auto crash which took his life occurred as he was about to turn into the driveway of the 12 acre estate.

His club memberships included the Saddle and Cycle club here.

Surviving are his widow, a son, Charles Farwell Chatfield-Taylor, a sister Mrs. William D. Sohier of Boston, and two brothers, Wayne of Washington, D.C., and Robert of Phoenix, Ariz. Services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in St. Augustine's Episcopal church, Ossining,

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Playwright and theatrical producer. At one time he was rumored to be engaged to actress Miriam Battista.
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USA World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name: Otis Chatfield-Taylor
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Lake County no 1, Illinois
Gender: Male
Nationality: USA
Birth Date: 06 May 1899
Birthplace: , , USA
Affiliate Publication Number: M1509 , Affiliate Publication Title: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards , GS Film Number: 1614030 , Digital Folder Number: 005248710 , Image Number: 05255
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USA Passport Applications
Name: Otis Chatfield-Taylor
Event Date: 1921
Event Place: Illinois
Birth Date: 06 May 1899
Birthplace: Illinois
Certificate Number: 84659
Affiliate Publication Number: M1490 , GS Film Number: 001686062 , Digital Folder Number: 007568922 , Image Number: 00537
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USA Census, 1940
Name: Otis Chatfield Taylor
Event Place: Cortlandt Town, Westchester, New York [Correct spelling]
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birthplace: Illinois
Birth Year (Estimated): 1899
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Otis Chatfield Taylor Head M 41 Illinois
Marella Chatfield Taylor Wife F 30 Russia
Julia Scott Maid F 28 South Carolina
District: 60-20 , Family Number: 332 , Sheet Number and Letter: 15A , Line Number: 25 , Affiliate Publication Number: T627 , Affiliate Film Number: 2802 , Digital Folder Number: 005459486 , Image Number: 00609
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Travels
Otis Chatfield Taylor
New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island)
residence: New York City
immigration: 1 October 1922

Otis Chatfield Taylor
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
birth: 1899 Lake Forest Ill
immigration: 1928 New York, New York

Otis Chatfield-Taylor
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
birth: 1899 Lake Forest Ill
immigration: 1929 New York, New York

Otis Chatfield-Taylor
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
birth: 1900 Lake Forest Ill
immigration: 1932 New York, New York

Otis Chatfield-Taylor
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
birth: 1899 Lake Forest Ill
immigration: 1935 New York, New York

Otis Chatfield-Taylor
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
birth: 1899 Lake Forest Ill
immigration: 1943 New York City, New York

Otis Chatfield-Taylor and Jane Benson were divorced on 15 January 1934 in Reno, Washoe Co., Nevada, USA. They were divorced. Jane Benson (private).

Otis Chatfield-Taylor and Morella Borisovna "Marochka \ Maggie" Anisfeld were married on 6 May 1936 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA. Otis Chatfield-Taylor, socially prominent New Yorker and writer, obtained a license yesterday to marry Marochka Anisfeld, 26 years old, daughter of Boris Anisfeld.
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The ceremony was conducted in her father's art studio in Chicago.
Morella Borisovna "Marochka \ Maggie" Anisfeld, daughter of Boris Israelevich Anisfeld and Freida Glaeserman, was born on 24 July 1906 in St Petersburg, Russia. She immigrated in 1918 to USA. She appeared in the census in 1940 in Cortlandt Town, Westchester Co., New York, USA. Marochka \ Maggie died Stroke following a fall. on 2 November 1999 at the age of 93 in Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend.. Connecticut Death Index
Name Marochka C Taylor
Event Date 02 Nov 1999
Event Place Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Residence Place Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Address 14 DIVING ST
Gender Female
Age 93
Marital Status Widowed
Race White
Occupation ART DEALER
Industry SELF EMPLOYED
Education Level 12
Birth Year (Estimated) 1906
Father's Surname (Original) ANISFELD
Spouse's Name OTIS
Certificate Number 25541
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District of Columbia has her birth date as 29 Jul 1909.
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Find A Grave Memorial# 137761323
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CHATFIELD TAYLOR-Marochka age 93 died of a stroke following a fall, in Mystic, CT, November 2, 1999, at Pendleton Rehabilitation Center. She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia July 24, 1906. Her father was the well-known Russian artist, Boris Anisfeld, who designed sets and costumes for the Russian theater and opera before the 1917 Russia revolution and later for the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Ms. Chatfield-Taylor emigrated to the USA with her father and mother at the height of the Russian revolution. She arrived in New York in 1918, when her father's paintings, transported from Russia, were exhibited in a major show at the Brooklyn Museum. Later, her father was employed by the Metropolitan Opera Company from 1918-1927. She was educated at the Ethical Culture Society School in Manhattan. The family moved to Chicago in 1929, where her father became professor of advanced painting at the Chicago Art Institute. While attending the Art Institute as a student, Ms. Anisfeld produced exhibitions of her own work of drawings and paintings. She also created murals for cafes and bars in Chicago and designed high-fashion clothing. In 1936, she married journalist Otis Chatfield-Taylor, from a prominent Chicago family. The ceremony was conducted in her father's art studio in Chicago. They lived in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor owned and edited the local newspaper. Following his death in 1948, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Manhattan and created a company called Maggie Taylor gowns, which produced her own original clothing designs. In 1954, Ms. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for many years as a real estate agent and antique dealer. In 1970 she moved to Stonington, CT. Following her father's death in 1973, she devoted her energies to promoting her father's reputation in the world of Russian and American art. She is survived by one son, Charles Chatfield-Taylor of San Francisco, CA and Stonington, CT and by two granddaughters, Jessica Chatfield-Taylor of San Francisco, and Mercedes Flett of Lotus, CA. No memorial service is planned.
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Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor, 93, died Tuesday in Mystic, Conn., after suffering a stroke.

The daughter of well-known Russian artist Boris Anisfeld, Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor came to New York City in 1918 at the height of the Russian Revolution. The family moved to Chicago nine years later when Boris Anisfeld took a teaching post at the Art Institute.

His daughter studied there and became an artist herself, as well as a fixture in local society pages. She designed clothes, did portraits and painted murals in cafes, her son said. Newspapers chronicled her first painting exhibition and her ambition: "(I) can't see how anybody can live without really doing something," she told one.

The papers were all the more enthralled with her surprise 1936 engagement to Otis Chatfield-Taylor, a newspaperman, playwright and member of a prominent Chicago family. Social pundits had apparently expected her to become engaged to someone else and breathlessly chronicled the "whirlwind courtship," the "rush of parties" celebrating their short engagement, and their wedding in her father's art studio.

The couple settled in a 300-year-old home in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., where he edited the local newspaper. But after her husband died 12 years into their marriage, Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor moved to Manhattan and resumed designing clothes. She called her label Maggie Taylor, using a nickname given by friends who had trouble pronouncing `Marochka,' her son said.

She then went to Washington, where she became a real estate agent and antiques dealer.

But after many years in the capital, she returned to the country--this time, to Stonington, Conn.,--and devoted herself to preserving her father's legacy in the art world, her son said. When a Canadian curator arranged a retrospective of Anisfeld's work in 1989, she shared hundreds of paintings as well as several hours of memories.

Through it all, her son said, "probably the happiest time of her life . . . was in Chicago."

Survivors include two grandchildren. No services are planned.
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Emmigrated with parents Boris and Freda Anisfeld, departing Yokohama 28 Dec 1917 aboard "The Empress of Russia", arriving Seattle, King Co., Washington, USA.

Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists
Name Marella Anisfeld
Event Type Immigration
Event Date 1917
Event Place Seattle, King, Washington, USA
Gender Female
Age 9
Birthplace Russia
Ship Name Empress Of Russia
Birth Year (Estimated) 1908

Otis Chatfield-Taylor and Morella Borisovna "Marochka \ Maggie" Anisfeld had the following children: