questions:
# How and where did he meet his first bride Eleanor?
# What was/were his family's line/lines of work?
=Solution=
*No records following the scenario of Henry dying in 1899 have been found.
* no divorce of Henry and Eleanor...few newspaper clippings at all... As Eleanor Cecelia vB was a High Society girl, we might expect something from the NY press. We do see that Eleanor used the name <Orr> at The New York Times (New York, New York)23 Jul 1904, SatPage 7 = https://www.newspapers.com/image/20351709/?terms=%22Nellie%2Bvan%2B...
* It is clear (if dates are correct) that Eleanor and Henry married in haste. Their dau. was born 8 months after nuptials.
* I propose that this Henry Orr is the same person as Henry Orr. In other words, Henry remarried in haste also.
* The Orrs and van Beurens were often on the 'same page' of the NYC social scene.
** Scenario: Henry and Eleanor became romantically involved and had their child Eleanor Von Erden Drury (Orr) in 1896..
** Henry started to get assimilated into the business of his Eleanor's father, Henry Spingler van Beuren. He traveling west with the family, VISITING the Walnut Grove Water Storage Co. HSvB was the president of the company
** Henry then left Eleanor and married Mary Orr . That couple lived "happily ever after", etc.
***Henry Orr married Mary Keenen in a New York hotel on January 24, 1900. Mary was then 24 years old...
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