- Cousin of Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service in the 1920s.
- Maternal grandfather was rubber magnate B.F. Goodrich.
- Photographer and broadcaster.
- Paternal grandfather was John Cabell Breckinridge, USA vice president under president James Buchanan.
- Children: daughter Patricia; son Mark.
- Her grandfathers were Benjamin F. Goodrich, the inventor and Industrialist, and John Cabell Breckinridge, a vice president, a presidential candidate in 1860 and Secretary of War for the Confederacy.
- Donated a 550-acre farm on the Patuxent River in Calvert County to the State of Maryland in 1983. It became the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, a trove of environmental and American historical discoveries.
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