On January 24, 1862, in New York City, Edith Newbold Jones was born. Her parents, George Fredric Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, came from a well established "old-money New York business aristocracy" background. Thus setting up Edith, and her two much older brothers - Fredric Rhinelander Jones and Henry Edward Jones - for success. Her whole life she was basically raised as an only child, noted that her brothers attended a boarding school. However, life was not all that horrible for her. Edith was raised in a brownstone mansion in New York City, her family often traveled abroad to Europe and the country, and many more extravagances were experienced. Growing up in a society where "manners, taste, snobbishness, and a long list of