Herbert M. Harriman

Herbert Melville Harriman (September 28, 1873 – January 3, 1933) was an American businessman, sportsman and heir of the wealthy Harriman family.

Early life Harriman was born on September 28, 1873, in New York City. His father, Oliver Harriman, was a dry goods merchant. His mother was Laura Low.

Harriman graduated from Princeton University. They lived in New York. They divorced, and she remarried in 1907. His second wife was Mary Madeline “May” Brady. She was the daughter of Judge John Riker Brady (1822-1891) and his wife Katharine Lydig. Her first husband was Charles Albert Stevens (1865-1901), son of Edwin Augustus Stevens. They married on November 15, 1888, and he died in 1901 leaving her a large fortune. She married her second husband, Maj.Charles Spencer Hall of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, in 1902 at London. She left him to visit her father in America in 1904, and obtained a divorce from Hall in Newport, Rhode Island on December 8, 1907, on the grounds of non-support. She married Herbert Harriman on August 19, 1908 in Newport. Thereupon, Major Hall brought suit for divorce in England, and obtained his divorce there, on the grounds of bigamy, about a year and a half after his wife had remarried. The British judge found that the American divorce decree was invalid. Herbert Melville Harriman and May Brady divorced in 1921. His third and final wife was Sarah Jane Hunter.

Harriman was an avid golf and tennis player. and the Metropolitan Amateur in 1899.

Death Harriman died on January 3, 1933, in Aghadowey, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.