Phelan Beale

Phelan Beale (* May 23, 1881 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, † June 12, 1956 in Pass Christian, Mississippi ) was a wealthy lawyer and hunter from New York City. Beale was with Edith Ewing Bouvier, the aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, married. He is the American public probably best known as head of the family in the Grey Gardens Family Saga in mind that in the documentation Grey Gardens (1975 ), a musical and produced in 2009 by HBO movie Grey Gardens is portrayed. The name refers to the family estate Grey Gardens in East Hampton, New York.

Biography

Beale was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1902 he graduated from the University of the South and in 1905 he graduated from the Law School of Columbia University. He was the grandson of John D. Phelan, a spokesman for the Supreme Court of Jacqueline Onassis 's grandfather Alabama.Zusammen with "Major" John Vernou Bouvier, Jr., he developed the jurisprudence of " Bouvier Beale and ".

In 1917 he married Edith Bouvier 's daughter Ewing Bouvier (later she got the nickname " Big Edie "). The emcee their wedding on January 17, 1917 in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City were among other Jackie's father John Vernou Bouvier III and W. Seargant Bouvier. Edith Bouvier Beale were your children ( "Little Edie " ), Phelan Beale, Jr., of Tulsa, and Bouvier Beale from Glen Cove, Long Iceland.

In 1924 he acquired the 28- room Grey Gardens estate in great beach location, right on the ocean in the vicinity of the lagoon Georgica Pond. The couple separated around 1926 and became legally divorced in 1931, but both continued to live in East Hampton. As part of their marital accrued gains Edith was the family estate of " Grey Gardens " in East Hampton.

Beale belonged to the "Grey Goose Gun Club of Cedar Point ", a former hunting reserve, is situated in the today of Cedar Point County Park, East Hampton. In 1937, he expanded the site by buying the verlassenenen Cedar Island Light Iceland. Through the New England Hurricane of 1938 was formed by alluvial sand a strip of land that connected the reserve with the island. The property " Grey Gardens " is today the residence of the Park Warden and located north of a general store in the park.

Beale married in 1947 one last time Dorothy D. Durham of Poplarville, Mississippi. He died in 1956 in Pass Christian, Mississippi.