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Avery Robinson

In 1907 he married Chess's daughter Mary, who would later found the Mary Chess Company, a perfume manufacturer.

Mary Chess

While in London Chess sent her daughter Carley to study with Nadia Boulanger, despite the composer's pessimistic assessment of the girl's aptitude for music.

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In 1920 Chess and Robinson left for London where Robinson was employed as treasurer to the Royal Philharmonic Society.

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In 1907 she married Avery Robinson, also from Louisville and son of another Louisville mill owner, who had worked for her father after graduating from MIT.

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