sentences:  He was the son of Robert Livingston Ireland Sr. (1867–1928), a prominent Cleveland businessman, and Kate Benedict (née Hanna) Ireland (1871–1936), who married in 1894.His sister, Elisabeth Ireland (known as "Miss Pansy"), was married to Parker Barrington Poe and inherited Pebble Hill Plantation, their maternal grandfather's estate in Thomasville, Georgia.His parents divorced in 1918; his father remarried to Esther Wood in 1920, and his mother remarried to Perry Williams Harvey.