Samuel Lloyd Osbourne, Albert Beck Wenzell
Person of Some Importance
Hardcover
(Bobbs Merrill Co March 15, 1909)
, 1st edition
The prolific American author Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947) was the stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson. Lloyd, as he was known, became the US Vice-Consul General to Samoa and married Katharine Durham in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1896. They had two sons, Alan and Louis. Albert Beck Wenzell (1864-1917) was an American illustrator who focused almost exclusively on the historically accurate portrayal of America's high society. His fashionable subjects could be found in all of the popular magazines of the day-The Ladies' Home Journal, Century, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post and many others.