George Barnes Van Cleve

George Barnes (8), b. December 19, 1875, d. about 1951 . He was a pretty well grown young man when the editor was still a boy, and I well re¬ member that he had a fine, nickel-plated bicycle, the kind then called an "ordinary", with a big front wheel and small trailing rear one. I remember that I admired it very much although I didn't get a chance to try it. George joined a fraternity at the University of Minnesota and he seemed to ' me to cut a pretty wide swath. He was married three times and divorced from the first two wives. The second was Rose Davies, sister of the actress, Marian Davies, by whom he had one daughter, Patricia, now the wife of the actor, Arthur Lake. I believe the Lakes have two children.

Van Cleve was known to the public as the father of Patricia Van Cleve who was in reality the daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst. Van Cleve and his family moved to New York in the 1890s where his father worked as a wheat buyer and he began working in the advertising business, forming his own advertising company in 1910 which was named the 'Van Cleve Company.' Van Cleve's body was removed from the Douras mausoleum and buried in front of the steps in March of 1951 along with Louis Adlon and Maitland Rice Lederer.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jul 27 2022, 22:31:41 UTC