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By Lee & C.G. WoLfe l Photo By J.B. MCCoLLuM
Millicent Vernon Hammond (1910-1992) was the
middle sibling of three children born to Ogden Haggerty Hammond, an affluent businessman and NJ State legislator, and Mary
(Picton Stevens) Hammond, a wealthy New Jersey heiress, whose
grandfather, Edwin Augustus Stevens, financed the establishment
of the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. The young
Hammonds split their time between a home on East 70th Street
in Manhattan, and the family9s 48-room mansion in Bernardsville,
NJ. But Millicent9s brief five years with her mother came to a
tragic end in 1915, when Mary perished along with 1,196 other
souls aboard the RMS Lusitania, when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk off the coast of Ireland. Ogden Hammond
survived but spent three weeks in a hospital recovering from his
injuries. Two years later, he married a widow named Marguerite
