Effie (Tyler) Massie (1858-1938)

She was born in Illinois and moved with her family to "The Oaks" at Ithaca, New York, after her father (a Congregationalist Minister) had been appointed Professor of Christian Ethics & Philosophy etc., at Cornell University. In 1880, she married Buffalo's notable collector of autographed manuscripts, James Fraser Gluck. Their eldest child died in infancy and they had two notable children who survived to adulthood. Gluck dropped dead unexpectedly in 1897 and in 1904 Effie was married again at her parents' home to J. Hughes Massie, a recently graduated Cornell student who was 18-years her junior. In 1905, they moved to London, and up until WWI Effie variously accompanied her daughter, the violinist Margel Gluck, on her European tours through Prague, Berlin, Paris, Bucharest and St. Petersburg. During that time, Effie published poetry in magazines and in 1911 translated Wagner at Home by Judith Gautier. In London, her marriage hit the rocks when she discovered that Massie was having an affair with a younger married woman, 28-years younger than her. She eventually succeeded in divorcing him in 1918 and leaving London she moved to Los Angeles to be close to her children, where she died.