Mary Hoyt Wiborg was a New York City socialite. She wrote the play Taboo

Taboo (1922 play)

Taboo is a play first performed in 1922, written by Mary Hoyt Wiborg.It is set on a plantation in Louisiana before the American Civil War and in Africa. It opened on April 4, 1922 in the Sam Harris Theater, Harlem. It starred Margaret Wycherly, the only white member of the cast, Paul Robeson, other...

in 1922 that starred Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...

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Biography

She was born on January 28, 1888 to Frank Bestow Wiborg

Frank Bestow Wiborg

Frank Bestow Wiborg of Cincinnati with Levi Addison Ault created Ault & Wiborg Co., the ink manufacturer.-Biography:...

 in Cincinnati. She had two sisters, Olga Wiborg and Sara Sherman Wiborg. Olga married Sidney Webster Fish, the son of Stuyvesant Fish

Stuyvesant Fish

Stuyvesant Fish was president of the Illinois Central Railroad.Fish was born in New York City, the son of Hamilton Fish and his wife Julia Ursin Niemcewicz, née Kean. A graduate of Columbia College, he was later an executive of the Illinois Central Railroad, and as its president from 1887 to 1906...

 on September 18, 1915 in St. Luke's Episcopal Church

St. Luke's Episcopal Church

St. Luke's Episcopal Church or Old St. Luke's Episcopal Church may refer to:in the United States* St. Luke's Episcopal Church , formerly located in Browns, Alabama, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Alabama* St...

 in Easthampton, New York

East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. It is the easternmost town in the state of New York...

. The family moved to New York City and Frank became the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

She died in 1964.

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