Mary Kinsolving

Born: May 23, 1915

Died: May 19, 2001

Children: Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Jr., Gus, Anne, Tom

Mary Blagden Kinsolving was a daughter of Augustus Blagden and the wife of Episcopal Bishop Arthur Lee Kinsolving.

New York Times, May 22, 2001

KINSOLVING-Mary Blagden. On May 19, 2001 in Baltimore, MD. Beloved wife of the late Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, D.D. Devoted mother of Augustus B. Kinsolving of NY City & Anne Kinsolving Talbott of Washington, DC., the late Arthur Lee Kinsolving Jr. & the late Thomas Bruce Kinsolving. Also survived by 5 grandchildren. Services at Old St. Pauls Church, Baltimore, MD. on Thursday, May 24 at 10 AM. A reception will follow at the Old Rectory. Interment at St. Thomas Cemetery on Friday at 2 PM. A memorial service will be held at St. James Church, 865 Madison Ave., NY, NY on Monday June 4th at 11 AM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. James Church, The Sanger Fund of Fishers Island, New York & the Upper Saranac Lake Foundation of Saranac Lake, New York. For information Henry Jenkins & Sons, Baltimore, MD.

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, January 3, 1959

Kinsolvings, Including Actor Son, Come Up For Skiing Holiday

Mrs. Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Sr., has known the Adirondacks all her life, but mostly the summertime Adirondacks at the camp of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Blagden, on Upper Saranac Lake .

This winter she, her four children, and their friends (there were ten in the party altogether New Year's Eve), came up for skiing. They are staying at Lake Clear Inn. Mrs. Kinsolving's husband could not get away from his duties as pastor of St. James Episcopal Church in New York City.

One of her children, Arthur Lee Kinsolving, Jr., flew from Hollywood where he has appeared in several TV films. Lee, as the family call him, is 20 years old.

After his freshman year at Trinity College he played with a theatrical stock company at Mt. Kisco "and decided acting was his dish," his mother said. A Broadway scout saw him and liked what he saw and helped him get a part in the play, Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.

The play ran for three weeks. Last summer Lee had better luck in Hollywood, appearing in small parts in such TV shows as Have Gun Will Travel, Playhouse 90, and Pursuit.

Gus, 19, is a sophomore at Yale; Anne is 16 and Tom is 10. The Kinsolvings "discovered" the winter Adirondacks last winter when they also stayed at Lake Clear Inn.

Mrs. Kinsolving said they particularly enjoy skiing Pisgah.

Of her parents, she said they live now in Wessyngton, Tenn., on Mrs. Blagden's family place. Her maiden name was Ann Washington (Wessyngton is the old spelling), and she is the seventh generation to have lived at the family estate.

Mrs. Blagden's paternal grandparents, incidentally, Thomas Blagden and Helen Rich, met at Indian Carry on Upper Saranac in 1870. After their marriage they lived for a while near Saranac Inn in a cottage where Grover Cleveland spent his honeymoon and later built their own camp, Deerwood, which became the Deerwood Music School. The Blagdens' present camp is also on Upper Saranac.

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