…from 1882 to 1891. She had divorced her husband Langtry in 1887 and gotten US citizenshp that same year.
Frederick Gebhard was 22 and Lillie was 29 when they met. He was supposedly a lover of feminine beauty and horses. His wealth was inherited from a grandfather on his mother’s side, Thomas Davis, who was one of the wealthiest New York real estate owners of the time. His other grandfather on his father’s side had come to New York in 1800 and was also wealthy from his mercantile business, banking, and railroad ventures.
In 1885 Langtry and Gebhard brought a stable of thoroughbred American horses to race in England. In 1888, traveling in her private care attached to an Erie Railroad train bound for Chicago, the railcar transporting 17 of their hours derailed in Pennsylvania. People, 14 horses, and her champion runner, Eole were killed.
Langtry and Gebhard never married. He married Lulu Morris of Baltimore in 1895, they divorced in 1901, and then he married Marie Wilson in 1905. He died in 1910.
(Photo: Lillie in 1890’s perhaps; undated photo)