notably absent from the household was philip's father, dr. philip barbour who was now living on fifth street, louisville, with a new wife, one elizabeth (akin) barbour who he had married on 9 january 1909. clearly, philip barbour's parents had been divorced between 1900 and 1909 but no record of such an event has been found in the louisville newspapers during that period even though it would no doubt have been quite a scandalous development given the small-town character of louisville (the population was about 200,000 in 1900) and the prominent social position of both the seward family and dr. barbour.