Raised in luxury on their family's sprawling estates in Lake Forest,[4][5][6] the quartet enjoyed carefree lives consisting of polo, tennis, country-club flirtations and private-school feuds.
[6] Due to the immense wealth of their respective families, the Chicago press chronicled their mundane social activities, and newspaper columnists feted the young women as the city's most desirable debutantes.
King married twice, to William Mitchell and John T. Pirie Jr. Edith Cummings (March 26, 1899 – November 20, 1984) was one of the premier golfers of her generation.
[10] Cummings met F. Scott Fitzgerald through King, and was the inspiration for the character of Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby.
[13] They divorced in 1924, and in 1925, she married John Borden, with whom she traveled to the Arctic; this provided the material for her 1928 book The Cruise of the Northern Light.
They divorced in 1933 and three weeks later, she married Argentine ambassador Felipe de Espil [es], who had courted her in the early 1920s.