First marriage Schumm first married – on July 29 , 1931 , in Los Angeles – Agnes Mellen Kent ( 1888 – 1975 ) , who from a previous marriage , had two daughters – ( i ) Jessie Marcellina ( Elizabeth ) Olivieri ( 1918 – 1947 ) and ( ii ) Josephine Tarquini ( 1910 – 2010 ) , that latter having been adopted after being rescued from the 1915 earthquake in central Italy . Agnes Kent was the daughter of New York architect William Winthrop Kent ( 1860 – 1955 ) – who , as architect , was affiliated at various times with ( i ) Harvey L. Page , ( ii ) his brother , Edward Austin Kent ( who perished on the Titanic ) , ( iii ) Heins & LaFarge , and ( iv ) Jardine , Kent & Jardine . He was one of the architects of the original plan for Cathedral of Saint John the Divine , including the Romanesque revival apse . Agnes was also the granddaughter of Henry Mellen Kent ( 1823 – 1894 ) , one of the founders of the Flint & Kent department store in Buffalo . Hans and Agnes divorced . Agnes had been previously married to Umberto Olivieri ( 1884 – 1973 ) , a banker for 14 years at Bank of America in San Francisco , a lawyer in Rome , and a language professor for 30 years at Santa Clara University , who , in 1958 , at the age of 74 — after returning to Italy and joining the Order of Saint Benedict at the Subiaco Monastery in Rome — became ordained as a Roman Catholic Priest by the Bishop of Tivoli at Subiaco . Hans Schumm was Agnes ' second of three husbands
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1915 Avezzano earthquake
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