Their daughter Ava Alice Muriel (known as Muriel), was 7 and lived with her mother. Eager to avoid her, Col. Astor slipped aboard his yacht, Noma, with his son and set sail for Bar Harbor.
In addition his parents' marriage was less than perfect. Vincent's only sister, Ava Alice Muriel Astor, was reportedly Ava Astor's child by a New York society man named Sidney Hatch—though ...