Heiress, Philanthropist, Co-Founder of IALA, Daughter of Elliot Fitch Shepard and Marie Louise Vanderbilt. Known to her family as Angela, She was no true angel, however, and climbed a tree against her father's specific interdiction and fell out fracturing her thoracic spine. Her father, a hard man, refused to call the doctor to punish her disobedience. She attended the Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She was courted for some time by Dave Hennen Morris (1872–1944) who saw her face around the funnel of the steamer to France and knew at once that he must marry her. When he pursued her more closely, he saw that she had a deforming scoliosis which did not change his ardor one bit. When he presented himself to ask for her hand in marriage, her father told him he would never amount to anything good and asked him to leave and have no further contact with the family. When he was allowed to say good-bye to her in the hall, he asked her to elope with him. She climbed out the window that night for an extraordinary life. Her sister later packed up her clothes in a trunk and sent them on by Railway Express. Alice & Dave were married on June 19, 1895. They had 6 Children. Alice died in Bar Harbor, Maine on August 15, 1950.
Heiress, Philanthropist, Co-Founder of IALA, Daughter of Elliot Fitch Shepard and Marie Louise Vanderbilt. Known to her family as Angela, She was no true angel, however, and climbed a tree against her father's specific interdiction and fell out fracturing her thoracic spine. Her father, a hard man, refused to call the doctor to punish her disobedience. She attended the Radcliffe College of Harvard University. She was an honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. She was courted for some time by Dave Hennen Morris (1872–1944) who saw her face around the funnel of the steamer to France and knew at once that he must marry her. When he pursued her more closely, he saw that she had a deforming scoliosis which did not change his ardor one bit. When he presented himself to ask for her hand in marriage, her father told him he would never amount to anything good and asked him to leave and have no further contact with the family. When he was allowed to say good-bye to her in the hall, he asked her to elope with him. She climbed out the window that night for an extraordinary life. Her sister later packed up her clothes in a trunk and sent them on by Railway Express. Alice & Dave were married on June 19, 1895. They had 6 Children. Alice died in Bar Harbor, Maine on August 15, 1950.
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