Cousin of Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service in the
1920s.
Maternal grandfather was rubber magnate B.F. Goodrich.
Photographer and broadcaster.
Paternal grandfather was John Cabell Breckinridge, USA vice president
under president James Buchanan.
Children: daughter Patricia; son Mark.
Her grandfathers were Benjamin F. Goodrich, the inventor and
Industrialist, and John Cabell Breckinridge, a vice president, a
presidential candidate in 1860 and Secretary of War for the
Confederacy.
Donated a 550-acre farm on the Patuxent River in Calvert County to the
State of Maryland in 1983. It became the Jefferson Patterson Park and
Museum, a trove of environmental and American historical discoveries.