Abt 1889 - 1956 (~ 67 years)
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Name |
Aksel C. P. Wichfeld |
Birth |
Abt 1889 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
11 Sep 1956 |
Person ID |
I105741 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
Family |
Josephine "Fifi" Pancoast Widener, b. 1902, Philadelphia, USA d. 6 Mar 1961 (Age 59 years) |
Marriage |
11 Jan 1933 |
Reno, Nevada, USA |
- Fifi once again filed for divorce, this time in West Palm Beach, in May 1951, on grounds of extreme cruelty. She claimed Aksel had been critical of her ownership of race horses and that he insisted she sell her horses and spend some money on clothing. The Wichfelds were granted a divorce and the settlement was not made public.
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Family ID |
F38574 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
24 Jan 2013 |
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Notes |
- Wichfeld had come to the United States in 1910, working in banking and operating taxi cab companies. In 1916 he became attach? of the Danish Legation in Washington. Only hours before the wedding he had divorced his wife of 18 years, Maybelle Swift Wichfeld, heiress to the Swift meat-packing fortune and former wife of Clarence Moore, who perished on the Titanic. The same judge who granted the divorce also performed the wedding ceremony in Reno. During their marriage Aksel and Fifi traveled extensively, and wintered in Palm Beach.
Aksel devoted his time to his charity Thrift, Inc. and to marlin fishing, the sport in which he was a world champion .
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