Edith Hale MacKinnon

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/14/archives/lawyer-is-fiance-of-edi...

• 14 Feb 1971 - Engagement of Edith Hales Harkness to Kenneth Perry McKinnon (Washington lawyer)
• ... announced by Mrs. Rebekah Harkness of Sneden's Landing, N. Y., mother of the future bride
• Mr. McKinnon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Angus K. McKinnon of Fort Myers, Fla., formerly of Potomac, ??.
• Miss Harkness, the daughter of the late William Hale Harkness, New York lawyer and philanthropist, was named for her paternal grandmother, the late Mrs. William Lamon Harkness, the former Edith Hale. She attended the Brearley School in New York and the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.

In Blue Blood (1988), author Craig Unger claims that the public image of Rebekah Harkness merely scratched the surface. Calling her story "a Rashomon-like affair," in which each of the central people in her life had a different take on her, Unger also maintains that much of what was written about Harkness was false. At the time of her death, he points out, her dance empire had been destroyed, she had been humiliated by the press, and most of her fortune had been lost through her capricious behavior. Saddest of all, he believes, were her problems as a mother. All three of the Harkness children led tortured lives. Edith Harkness , her only child with Bill Harkness, was in and out of mental institutions and eventually committed suicide; her other daughter, Terry Pierce , had a severely brain-damaged baby who died in childhood. Harkness' only son, obsessed with upholding the family honor, shot and killed a man in a brawl.