Esther Slater

cannot locate in correspondence or online

I.S. 1/8/2018

Esther Slater Welles was married to Sumern Welles from 1915 - 1923.

Benjamin Welles (1916–2002), a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, later his father's biographer,

Arnold Welles (1918–2002)

In 1923, Slater obtained a divorce from Welles in Paris "on grounds of abandonment and refusal to live with his wife".

Welles occasionally gained public notice for his art dealings. In 1925, for example, he sold a collection of Japanese screens that had been on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for several years.

Mathilde Townsend,

second wife of Sumner Welles

On June 27, 1925, Welles married Mathilde Scott Townsend (1885–1949), "a noted international beauty" whose portrait had been painted by John Singer Sargent, in upstate New York.[52][12][55] Until World War II, the Welles' lived on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., in the landmark Townsend Mansion, which later became the home of the Cosmos Club.[56] Mathilde died of peritonitis in 1949 while vacationing in Switzerland with Welles.

Welles spent the bulk of his time a few miles outside of Washington in the Maryland countryside at a 49-room "country cottage" known as Oxon Hill Manor designed for him by Jules Henri de Sibour and built on a 245-acre property in 1929.[57][58] He entertained foreign dignitaries and diplomats there and hosted informal meetings of senior officials. FDR used the site as an occasional escape from the city as well.

On January 8, 1952, Welles married Harriette Appleton Post, a childhood friend, in New York City at the bride's home on Fifth Avenue.

Although the two men were occasionally mistaken for cousins, Welles was no relation to director Orson Welles.

He died on September 24, 1961 at age 68 in Bernardsville, New Jersey.[62] He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Welles EM 6/18/2019