Catherine Eddy Beveridge

In 1907 much to the chagrin of her role models and mentors, her mother Abby Eddy and her aunt Delia Caton Field, Catherine married Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927), the Republican senator from Indiana, who served from 1899 to 1911.^[3] The couple raised two children in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, and also spent substantial time in Washington, D.C. The couple had a passionate marriage, and according to their grandson, about the only thing that they ever fought about was his smoking, which she did not like. Their children were:

• Albert Jeremiah Beveridge Jr. (1908–1965), who married Elizabeth Scaife (1910–1998) in 1933.^[4] They divorced and he married Virginia (née Ryan) Baring, a granddaughter of Thomas Fortune Ryan and former wife of Edward Thomas Baring (son of Tom Baring), in 1955.^[5]
• Abby Beveridge, who predeceased her mother.^[6]

After her husband's 1927 death, Beveridge became a prolific philanthropist of the arts, donating to institutions throughout the country, including the National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Institute of Indianapolis. She helped establish the Albert J. Beveridge Award for American historians in 1939.^[7]

Beveridge died on May 28, 1970, at her home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.^[6] She was memorialized in the 2005 book The Chronicle of Catherine Eddy Beveridge: An American Girl Travels into the Twentieth Century,^[8] by her grandson Albert J. Beveridge III and Chicago writer Susan Radomsky.^[9]

• Catherine Eddy Beveridge Papers at Newberry Library