Elizabeth Parke Firestone

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Wedding Portrait of Elizabeth Parke Firestone and Harvey Firestone, Jr., June 25, 1921

Photographic print

Elizabeth Parke, daughter of a prosperous Decatur, Illinois, businessman, and Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., son of the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, met at a dance at Princeton around 1920. Their 1921 wedding was the most lavish Decatur had ever seen. Elizabeth -- who would become well-known for a refined sense of fashion -- likely made her own wedding dress.