Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elizabeth Lea du Pont CARPENTER
Living Individual, details withheldPublished: November 19, 2006
Elizabeth Lea du Pont Carpenter was married last evening to Clifford Vail Brokaw IV at Big Bend in Chadds Ford, Pa., the home of George Weymouth, the bride's cousin and godfather. The Rev. Ashley du Pont Gates Jansen, an interfaith minister and a half sister of the bride, officiated.
Mrs. Brokaw, 34, was until April 2005 the deputy publisher of The Paris Review. She is a founder of the New York Public Library Young Lions, an organization of supporters in their 20s and 30s. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and received an M.B.A. from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Carroll M. Carpenter and Edmund N. Carpenter II of Wilmington, Del. Her father is a partner in and a former president of Richards, Layton & Finger, a law firm there.
The bride is a descendant of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, the founder of the DuPont Company.
Mr. Brokaw, 38, is a managing director of Goldman Sachs in New York, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and financing for financial institutions. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he also received a law degree.
He is a son of Elizabeth Rogers Brokaw and Mr. Brokaw III of Southampton, N.Y. His father retired as the chairman of Invail Capital, an investment firm in New York.
The bridegroom is a descendant of William Bradford, a governor of Plymouth Colony, and of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, a New Hampshire signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The bridegroom's first marriage ended in divorce.
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