2 Quotes & Sayings By Thomas Cardin
Thomas Cardin was born in Denmark in 1854. He emigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen and settled in New York City, where he eventually established a successful printing business. In 1879, he married Eleanor Adams, a woman half his age. They had one son, Thomas William Cardin II (born 1880), who was raised in France while his parents lived in America and France
After her death in 1898, Mr. Cardin moved to Paris to care for his son, who later became a champion athlete and a well-known musician. In 1903, Mr.
Cardin married a widow named Fanny Sawyer until the couple’s divorce two years later. In 1906—after more than twenty years of living apart from his son—Thomas William Cardin II married the woman who would become his wife for thirty-five years: Josephine Ames Fulton (1882–1929). The couple had five children: Elizabeth, John Jr., Mary Louise, Thomas William III, and Mary Louise Fulton.