John A. Hadden Jr.

John A. Hadden Jr.
Born	John Aspinwall Hadden Jr (1858-03-31)March 31, 1858 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	February 6, 1931(1931-02-06) (aged 72) London, England
Spouse	Marie Torrance ​ ​ (m. 1892; died 1923)​
Parent(s)	John Aspinwall Hadden Frances Mactier
Relatives	David Hadden (grandfather) Charles Alexander Tomes (cousin)

John Aspinwall Hadden Jr. (March 31, 1858 – February 6, 1931)[1] was an American socialite and clubman during the Gilded Age.

Early life

Hadden was born on March 31, 1858, in New York City.[2] He was the eldest son of John Aspinwall Hadden (d. 1906)[3] and Frances "Fanny" (née Mactier) Hadden. The family lived on Fifth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets.[4] He was the brother of Alexander Mactier Hadden,[1] a close friend of Edward Coleman Delafield.[5] His father, who collected war medals, was a veteran of the Seventh Regiment and a member of the New-York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, and a life member of the American Numismatic Society.[6]

His maternal grandfather was Alexander Mactier who lived in New York and Philadelphia.[7] His paternal grandfather was David Hadden, a prominent New York Merchant who was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and Ann (née Aspinwall) Hadden, the daughter of William Smith Aspinwall.[7][2]

Society life

In 1892, just a month before he married, Hadden was included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[8][9] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[10]

Hadden was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York, the Riding Club and the Badminton Club.[1] The Haddens donated funds to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[11]

Personal life

On March 10, 1892, Hadden was married to Marie Torrance (1858–1923),[12] the daughter of Daniel Torrance and Sophia Johnson (née Vanderbilt) Torrance.[13] Marie's paternal grandfather was merchant and entrepreneur John Torrance and her maternal grandfather was Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Her brother Alfred Torrance was married to Louise Anthony, whom she later divorced to marry the Torrance cousin, Frederick William Vanderbilt. Her sister Adelaide Torrance was married Meredith Howland.[14] John and Marie did not have any children.[1][15]

His wife died in 1923. Hadden died of pneumonia on February 6, 1931, in London, England.[16] He was buried alongside his wife in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[1]

References

1. "JOHN A. HADDEN DEAD. | One of the Oldest Members of Union Club Dies in London" (PDF). The New York Times. February 10, 1931. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
2. Johnston, William (1894). A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of James Young, Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen and Rachel Cruickshank His Wife, 1697–1893, with Notes on Many of the Families with which They are Connected. University Press. p. 80. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
3. "Died. HADDEN" (PDF). The New York Times. December 23, 1906. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
4. Gray, Christopher (1994). Fifth Avenue, 1911, from Start to Finish in Historic Block-by-block Photographs. Courier Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 9780486281469. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
5. Bamberger, Werner (April 23, 1976). "Edward C. Delafield, 98, Dead; Donated Estate to Columbia U." The New York Times. p. 38. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
6. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting. American Numismatic Society. 1902. p. 16. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
7. Johnson, Alexander W. S.; Aberdeen.), James Young (merchant burgess of (1860). A short memoir of James Young, merchant burgess of Aberdeen, and Rachel Cruickshank, his spouse, and of their descendants [&c. Signed A.J.]. J. Craighead. pp. 29–30. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
8. McAllister, Ward (16 February 1892). "THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED | WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
9. Patterson, Jerry E. (2000). The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age. Random House Incorporated. p. 217. ISBN 9780847822089. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
10. Keister, Lisa A. (2005). Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780521536677. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
11. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. "Marie Torrance Hadden". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
12. "Died. HADDEN--Marie Torrance" (PDF). The New York Times. April 2, 1923. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
13. "HADDEN--TORRANCE" (PDF). The New York Times. March 11, 1892. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
14. MacDowell, Dorothy Kelly (1989). Commodore Vanderbilt and his family: a biographical account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. D.K. MacDowell. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
15. United States Board of Tax Appeals (1929). Reports, Volume 10. p. 741. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
16. "DIED" (PDF). The New York Times. February 9, 1931. p. 15. Retrieved 27 June 2018. HADDEN--John A., son of the late John A. and Frances Mactier Hadden, of pneumonia, on Feb. 6, in London, England.

External links

• John A. Hadden Jr. at Find a Grave