Otto Wilhelm Christian Schack

On August 25, 1841, Schack was married to Elizabeth Inez McCarty (1826–1910),^[4] a daughter of Peter McCarty, a descendant of one of the Earls of Clancarty,^[5] and Eliza Ann (née Sanders) McCarty. Her sister, Augusta, was married to Jacob Little and was the mother of Lt. William McCarty Little.^[6] Together, they lived at 173 Madison Avenue and were the parents of:^[7]

• Rudolph Wilhelm Schack (1845–1889), who married Minna Swift Livingston, daughter of Charles James Livingston, in 1879.^[8][9]
• Albert Peter Schack (1847–1926), a graduate of Columbia College School of Mines and professor who died unmarried.^[10]
• Constance Elise Schack (1852–1937),^[7] who married Col. Archibald Gracie IV, son of Confederate Brig.-Gen. Archibald Gracie III, in 1890.^[11] After his death she married Signor Raphael d'Arbiue,^[12] a musician and painter who had represented himself as a Count. He fled later, and, Mrs. Gracie said, had taken $5,000 worth of her jewels. It was brought out then that he was not a Count, but a dishwasher."^[13]
• Augusta Temple Schack (1853–1920),^[14] who married George William Merritt, son of George Merritt, in 1881.^[15] After his death she married piano manufacturer William Dalliba Dutton in 1911.^[16][17]

Schack died at his residence in New York City on September 1, 1875. After a funeral at New Jerusalem Church on 35th Street in Manhattan, he was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.^[1] His widow died on March 5, 1910, at 120 East 25th Street, which was then her residence in New York.^[5]

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Sources

• Otto Wilhelm Christian Schack at Find a Grave