[3][4][5][6] Her husband was the son of Wellington Smith, one of the world's largest paper manufacturer at the time, and was proprietor of a horsing estate that was later sold to William Douglas Sloane.
[9] She had Gladys Vanderbilt of the Breakers and Countess Beroldingen at her debutante party in New York, and was personally invited to Mrs. Astor gala at the Beechwood Estate.
[10][11] She was also announced by her son, John Jacob Astor IV, who later perished on the Titanic, and was a member of The Four Hundred during the Gilded Age, along with her cousin Charlotte Tooker Warren.
[22] In 1895, following the marriage of his youngest daughter Emily,[23] Tooker gifts the house, including all its furnishings, chandeliers, and draperies, to his children, who promptly divided the contents and sold the home.
[27] Tooker died on December 11, 1905, at Monte Carlo in Monaco,[40] after having lived abroad for twenty years.
[44][45] Warren Jr. was referred to as "an overly rich bachelor operating in San Francisco"[43] who traveled around the world.