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Lee de Forest did not spend all his time in the laboratory. He found time to marry four times.

Lee de Forest had four wives. The first of these, in 1906, was Lucille Sheardown, a marriage that was not consummated and ended in divorce that same year. The second, in 1907, was Nora Blatch, who bore him a child, but Nora was a liberated woman with an engineering background. After a few years she realized that she did not want to live in the shadow of de Forest, and by 1911 they were divorced. By 1912, de Forest had remarried, this time to singer Mary Mayo. By 1930, de Forest had married his fourth and final wife, the silent film actress Marie Mosquini.
The third time may or may not be the charm. This is Mary Mayo, Lee's 3rd wife, and they remained together and happy for nearly 15 years and together had two children, one of whom died at birth.		Happiness to de Forest was his New York home which he called Riverlure. On the banks of the Hudson, he was forced to sell it to pay his court debts.

Final marital bliss happened in Hollywood
Lee was most happy with his 4th wife, actress Marie Mosquini. They lived happily ever after.