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resumed publication as a monthly in 1978, he joined its staff as an editor, and continued to contribute to its pages after retiring from that position in 1985. After his death, the magazine published a retrospective in the February 1989 issue with excerpts from some of the two hundred columns he had
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Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation
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Although they never divorced, Wainwright was separated from his wife for the last 10 years of his life. He had a long time relationship with Martha Fay, with whom he had one daughter:
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magazine and worked in a variety of positions over the years, including staff writer, reporter, correspondent, bureau chief. He was assigned to cover the
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On September 13, 1945, Wainwright was married to Martha Harriet Taylor (1922–1997), the daughter of Walter Taylor of
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and had a child, Viva Wainwright Cohen, with friend Lorca Cohen (herself the daughter of singer
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Sloan) (1903–1985) and Loudon Snowden Wainwright (1898–1942). His father, a graduate of the
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in his home in Manhattan at age 63. Wainwright was buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in
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Through his daughter Sloan, he was the grandfather of two, Sam and Gabe McTavey.
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Wainwright was born in Manhattan, New York. He was the son of Eleanor Painter (
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His paternal grandparents were Stuyvesant Wainwright, a direct descendant of
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Through his son Loudon, he was the grandfather of singer-songwriters
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vol. 127 (1989), Trosky, Susan M., ed, Gale Research Inc., p. 470.
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while riding in Glenn's car in 1961. In 1964 he began writing "
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At the time of their wedding, Martha was a 272:in 1942, and attended and graduated from the 8: 562: 560: 558: 556: 554: 552: 550: 548: 546: 544: 542: 540: 538: 536: 534: 428:(born 1976), who married Brad Albetta; and 333:In 1986, Wainwright was also the author of 355:United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve 116: 18: 787:, p. 20, St. Andrews School Publications. 1031:Wainwright, Martha (December 29, 2009). 913: 911: 456: 337:, an informal history of the magazine. 314:listened to the inauguration speech of 1003:Bernstein, Jacob (November 15, 2012). 977:"Carrying On the Wainwright Tradition" 851: 849: 628:"Clement C. Jaggard/Annie Jane Wright" 357:. Together, they were the parents of: 1122:St. Andrew's School (Delaware) alumni 975:Gerstenzang, Peter (August 9, 2008). 944:Garner, Dwight (September 12, 2017). 364:(born 1946), who married folk singer 7: 176:. He was the father of folk singer 288:. After college, he served in the 221:Director-General of New Netherland 14: 1077:American people of Dutch descent 576:. December 13, 1988. p. 19 528:on Sloan Wainwright's web site. 330:written for it over the years. 300:Wainwright joined the staff of 392:Anna Fay Wainwright (b. 1982). 1: 248:Carroll Livingston Wainwright 170:Loudon Snowden Wainwright Jr. 32:Loudon Snowden Wainwright Jr. 274:University of North Carolina 95:University of North Carolina 1138: 1112:Writers from New York City 280:, where he was elected to 831:John Glenn A Memoir, 1999 704:Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). 416:(born 1973), who married 261:, Loudon's first cousin. 232:U.S. Ambassador to Serbia 568:"Writer Wainwright Dies" 382:Eleanor Sloan Wainwright 375:Martha Taylor Wainwright 259:Stuyvesant Wainwright II 254:, and was the father of 246:. 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Index

St. Andrew's School
University of North Carolina
Loudon
Sloan
A. Loudon Snowden
Rufus Wainwright
Martha Wainwright
Lucy Wainwright Roche
writer
Loudon Wainwright III
Sloan Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Martha Wainwright
Lucy Wainwright Roche
née
Pawling School
Princeton University
Director-General of New Netherland
Peter Stuyvesant
Archibald Loudon Snowden
U.S. Ambassador to Serbia
Romania
Greece
Spain
Carroll Livingston Wainwright
George Jay Gould
U.S. Representative
Stuyvesant Wainwright II
St. Andrew's School
Middletown, Delaware

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