Catherine Eddy Beveridge

Catherine Eddy Beveridge (June 29, 1881 – May 28, 1970) was a socialite and philanthropist who came from a prominent Chicago, Illinois, family.

Early life Catherine was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 29, 1881. She was the only daughter of Augustus Newlands Eddy and Abby Louisa (née Spencer) Eddy. Her older brother, Spencer F. Eddy, was a diplomat. Her father made his fortune as a businessman and her mother was a member of a family who ran a successful hardware business.

Personal life

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. 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. They had two children.

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