Ames Van Wart

[4] As children, Van Wart and his twin brother visited their great-uncle at Sunnyside his country home in Irvington, celebrated his 72nd birthday, and went with him to the opera in New York.

[2] His grandfather was a grand-nephew of Revolutionary War soldier Isaac Van Wart, who was one of three men who captured British Major John André.

[7] He made busts of his grandfather, Henry van Wart (1864), Horace Greeley, his grand-uncle Washington Irving, and Peter Cooper.

[7] In 1872, Van Wart and his wife traveled extensively around Europe with her father-in-law (an avid art collector),[8] spending time at Nice, in the south of France and London, where they lived (and became friends with Lord Frederick Leighton).

[12] Carrie's aunt, Mary Boardman Smith, was the wife of abolitionist William Weston Patton (fifth president of Howard University).