Marguerite attended Miss Claggett's School as a young girl and then traveled throughout Europe with a governess for one year.
Arthur was in business with his father before becoming the Boston Young Men's Christian Association president, a position he held for two years.
[5] Clarence gave up his practice in New York to join the army during World War I and became the chief surgeon for the 301st Infantry with service in France.
[9] He and Marguerite owned Big Tree Farm on Wheatley Road in Brookville, New York on Long Island.
[13] On their 230-acre estate, they bred Holstein and Ayrshire cattle, grew 769 species of trees, and had three large duck ponds.
[15] Marguerite grew the money she was left from her husband from $2 to $9 million, she said, by the efforts of her financial adviser and common sense.
Shortly after, she returned from a trip to Honolulu and found that Herbert Neal was staying with another woman in a New Orleans Hotel.
She then entertained at Big Tree Farm in New York, Palm Beach, and in Washington, D.C. and dated a number of society men.
[16] She was good friends and vacationed with David S. Cowles, Baron George Wrangall, and Jean Saint Cyr.
[5] In 1946,[1] Marguerite married Blevins Davis at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.[16] The ceremony was attended by Bess Truman.
[16] Marguerite Davis died at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri on March 18, 1948, following a heart attack.
She was entombed in the James Norman Hill mausoleum in Woodland Cemetery in Bronx, New York, where she also intended her husband would be buried.
[17] [18] The Big Tree Farm in Wheatley Hills, Long Island has operated as the Children's Education Center for the AHRC Nassau since 1968.