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Katherine Swenson

Female

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  • Name Katherine Swenson 
    Gender Female 
    Notes 
    • New York Times, March 17, 1996
      Weddings: Richard Kahan, Katgherine Lobell

      Katherine Swenson Lobell, a civic volunteer, was married yesterday to Richard Alan Kahan, the urban developer and a former president of the New York State Urban Development Corporation. Justice Ernst H. Rosenberger of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan officiated at the couple?s home in New York.

      Mrs. Kahan is a board member and a former president of the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, the social service agency. She is also a member of the board of the New York Women?s Foundation, which aids low-income women in New York City. The bride graduated from Smith College and received a master?s degree in English literature from Columbia University. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Swenson Jr. of Coral Gables, Fla. Her father owns Edward F. Swenson & Company, investment counselors in Coconut Grove, Fla.

      Mr. Kahan, a former real estate developer who was also the chairman of the Battery Park City Authority, is now the chairman of the Riverside South Planning Corporation, the nonprofit organization that oversees the design and planning of Donald Trump?s Riverside South building complex on the Upper West Side. He is also the president of the Urban Assembly, a nonprofit urban redevelopment organization.

      The bridegroom received a joint bachelor?s degree from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., and the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Columbia University. He is the son of Mrs. Myron Gordon of Irvine, Calif., and the late Milton Kahan, who was a publisher of trade magazines in New York.

      The bride?s previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the bridegroom?s.
    Person ID I32273  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 20 Aug 2015 

    Father Edward F. Swenson, Jr. 
    Mother Marie Louise Bassett 
    Family ID F11777  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart