Mary was born into an affluent and cultured family in Pennsylvania. Her father was a wealthy businessman of French ancestry and her mother came from a banking family. Mary’s parents were firm believers in education and when she was seven years old the family took their children on a four-year stay in Europe. Mary saw London, Paris and Berlin before she was ten and learned to speak French and German.

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