Edith (Rockefeller) McCormick (1872-1932)

She was the daughter of the world's first billionaire and married the Chairman of International Harvester, one of America's largest manufacturers of farm machinery. As a result, she was a both a prominent socialite and philanthropist in Chicago, known for her extravagant lifestyle, sprawling estate, and extensive art collection. She and husband lived at "Villa Turicum" (see images), a 44-room Italian villa with magnificent landscaped gardens designed by Charles A. Platt on a 300-acre estate in Lake Forest, Illinois. Her husband became deeply involved with the new science of psychoanalysis and they moved to Zurich in Switzerland for several years so that he could study with Carl Jung, with whom she frequently underwent psychoanalysis. Her husband would go on to establish one of America's first psychoanalytic training institutes, while she was instrumental in founding Chicago's civic opera. Despite her wealth and influence, her husband divorced her and remarried the truly eccentric Ganna Walska, which ended in divorce. As for Edith, in her later years she was characterized as eccentric and reclusive, and she died at the Drake Hotel in Chicago survived by three of her five children.