George Tuttle Brokaw

George Tuttle Brokaw (14 November 1879 – April 1936) was an American lawyer and sportsman.

He was born in New Jersey to Elvira Tuttle Gould and Isaac Vail Brokaw, who, with his brother William Vail Brokaw, owned the New York City-based Brokaw Brothers clothing stores from 1856 until his death. At Isaac's death in 1913, he left a net estate of $12,318,569.02, of which George's share was $1,947,302.Fact|date=February 2007 He also inherited the right to live for life in the Brokaw mansion at 1 East 79th Street in Manhattan.

Marriages and family

Brokaw's first wife was writer Clare Booth Luce, whom he married on 10 August, 1923. Their daughter Ann Clare Brokaw was born August 25, 1924. According to his first wife, Brokaw was an abusive alcoholic, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1929. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DE1339F933A25753C1A961948260 "Clare Boothe Luce Dies at 84: Playwright, Politician, Envoy"] , "The New York Times, October 10, 1987. Accessed November 28, 2007.]

Brokaw's second marriage was to Frances Ford Seymour from 1931 until his death in Connecticut in 1936. Brokaw and Seymour had a daughter Frances. Seymour later had two children with her second husband, Henry Fonda—Jane and Peter.

One of his brothers, Irving Brokaw, was a national ice skating champion and competed in the 1908 Olympics.

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