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Dorothy Doubleday daughter of Neltje Blanchan De Graff Doubleday and Frank Doubleday; sister of Nelson Doubleday and ultimately married to

Founding of Embroiderers' Guild of America

Three women, Dorothy (Mrs. F. Huntington) Babcock [Miss Doubleday], Margaret (Mrs. Daryl) Parshall and Miss Sally Behr (later Petite) form a needlework class in Mrs. Babcock’s New York City apartment. This is to be the nucleus of the American Branch, Embroiderers’ Guild of London.

https://egausa.org/about-us/

External Links

• Dorothy Doubleday on geni.com
• NY Times obituary, November 13, 1964: MRS. BABCOCK, WIFE OF DOUBLEDAY AIDE
  • Times Machine version of above
  • pdf of above obit
• [https://www.notablenewyorkers.com/mount-sinai-morningside MOUNT SINAI MORNINGSIDE, ORIGINALLY ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL, BUILDING NAMES

Dorothy Doubleday Babcock Building – Dorothy Doubleday Babcock (1891 – 1964) was the daughter of book publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday (1862 - 1934). Her husband, F. Huntington Babcock, was a Doubleday director and vice-president of St. Luke’s Hospital.

• Cooper Hewitt: OBJECTS INVOLVING MRS. F. HUNTINGTON BABCOCK
• Husband's NYTImes obit: F. H. BABCOCK DEAD HOSPITALS TRUSTEE of Sept. 2, 1973
• F Dorothy Doubleday on geneanet.org
• Google search: "Dorothy Doubleday" married

1957 Founders:

• (Mrs. F. Huntington) Babcock [Miss Doubleday]

(Mrs. F. Huntington) Babcock [Miss Doubleday]

See above

• Margaret (Mrs. Daryl) Parshall

Margaret (Mrs. Daryl) Parshall

Oakleigh Thorne ... survived by his wife Helen[2] and two daughters; Mrs. Philip S. Chancellor and Mrs. Daryl Parshall bingo!.

• Miss Sally Behr (later Petite)

Miss Sally Behr (later Petite)

• google query for: "Miss Sally Behr"

Behr married Helen Monypeny Newsom on March 1, 1913 at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York City.

(Karl Howell Behr (May 30, 1885 – October 15, 1949) was an American tennis player and banker. He was also a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic)

The couple had four children together: Karl H. Behr Jr. (1914–2002), Peter Howell Behr (1915–1997), James Howell Behr (1920–1976), and Sally Howell Behr bingo! (later Mrs. Samuel Leonard Pettit) (1928–1995).

• NYT wedding announcement with photograph: Samuel Leonard Pettit Weds Sally Howell Behr (Oct. 16, 1960)
  • on times machine:

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/10/16/99959492.html?pageNumber=93

• • pdf of above:

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/10/16/99959492.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

• Legacy.com obit: SAMUEL PETTIT

...form a needlework class in Mrs. Babcock’s New York City apartment. This is to be the nucleus of the American Branch, Embroiderers’ Guild of London.