Madeleine DU PONT

1887 -

• Name	Madeleine DU PONT
  Born	16 Oct 1887
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I15579	Primary
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2008

  
  

  Father	Alfred Irenee DU PONT,   b. 12 May 1864,   d. 29 Apr 1935  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Bessie GARDNER,   b. 11 Sep 1864
  Married	04 Jan 1887
  Family ID	F6266	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	John BANCROFT, Jr.,   b. 03 Jan 1887
  Married	18 Dec 1907  [1]
  Children	1. John BANCROFT, III,   b. 02 Oct 1908
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F6270	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Max HIEBLER
  Children	+ 1. Bayard Wilson HIEBLER,   b. 19 Apr 1911,   d. 05 Feb 1945  (Age 33 years) + 2. Benno Lorenz HIEBLER,   b. 08 Jan 1914   3. Alfred Friedrich HIEBLER,   b. 26 Jun 1915
  Last Modified	31 May 2008
  Family ID	F6271	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 3	Freidrich Hermann RUOFF,   b. 16 Jul 1898
  Married	26 Mar 1931
  Last Modified	31 May 2008
  Family ID	F6272	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S273] NEWS: Boston Journal, 20 Dec 1907. Dupont's Daughter Elopes with Student Wilmington, Del., Dec. 19. -- Miss Madeleine Dupont, oldest daughter of Alfred I. DuPont, the millionaire vice president of the Dupont Powder Company, and niece of United States Senator, H. A. Dupont, eloped to Washington yesterday with John Bancroft, a Princeton sophomore. News of the clandestine marriage became known upon the return of the couple to Wilmington. Simultaneously the bride announced that she would never have eloped but for the cruel treatment accorded to her by her own mother, who is Alfred I. Dupont's divorced wife. The girls told her friends pathetically that life with her mother had become unbearable, that she was forced to run away and wed the boy to whom she has been engaged for four years. Young Bancroft is 24 years old, He is the son of John Bancroft, the millionaire textile manufacturer of Wilmington.