Schroll, Maud Van Cortlandt Hill Dorcy, 1903-1997.

Maud Van Cortlandt Hill, known frequently as Maudie, was born June 1, 1903 in St. Paul. She was the second child of Louis W. Hill, president and chairman of Great Northern Railway and son of railroad baron James J. Hill, and Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill. Maud and her three brothers, Louis Jr., Jerome, and Cortlandt, lived an extremely privileged life in their home on Summit Avenue in St. Paul; she attended school at Summit Academy and the family traveled extensively to their secondary homes at North Oaks Farm, in northern Ramsey County, and Pebble Beach, California, and took frequent trips world-wide. In 1933 Maud married San Francisco writer Laurence Dorcy in Del Monte, California. They honeymooned in Hawaii and settled outside San Francisco, where Maud would live the rest of her life. The births of two children, a son and daughter, quickly followed. The couple divorced in 1941. In 1943 Maud married Austrian skiing champion Hannes Schroll with whom she had two more children. Maud died on October 15, 1997 in Woodside, California.

• 1903: Born in St. Paul on June 1 to Louis W. Hill and Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor Hill.
• 1903: Family moved in December into a newly constructed home at 260 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, next door to the home of James J. Hill.
• 1905: Birth of brother Jerome, March 2.
• 1906: Birth of brother Cortlandt Taylor, March 31.
• 1922: Met Laurence Dorcy in Pebble Beach, California.
• 1933: Married Laurence Holmes Dorcy on March 16 in St. John's Episcopal chapel in Del Monte, California.
• 1935: Birth of son Laurence Dorcy, Jr., January 29 in San Francisco.
• 1936: Birth of daughter Sheilah Dorcy, June 4 in San Francisco.
• 1941: Divorced from husband Laurence Dorcy.
• 1943: Married Hannes Schroll in San Francisco, California, in July.
• 1944: Birth of daughter Susannah Maria Schroll, October 8.
• 1947: Birth of son Johann Christopher Schroll, February 1.
• 1985: Husband Hannes Schroll died April 5, in Woodside, California.
• 1997: Died on October 25 in Woodside, California, at age 94.

From the guide to the Maud Hill Schroll papers, 1903-1935, 1967., (Minnesota Historical Society)