The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-09-03

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blcS the records show that Robert Pat.
t~erSon, the wife, and his father, vii
liam Patterson, the Baltimore mcr
chant-princc, acted very manly, frank
and honorable parts.
Mrs. Patterson had been joined abroad
by her sisters, Elizabeth and Louisa
Cation. They were in Paris when Vel
lington and the allies entered, and were
conspicuous figures in the festivities
which followed. They were fayoritcs
of the great Duke himself, and it is said
that he found his Waterloo in the faiI
presence of Mrs. Robert Patterson, and
that only the tritling impeachment of 4
husband on her part, and a wife on his,
prevented her becoming the head of
ApSlcy House.
Her sister Louisa became the wife of
the Dukes aide-de-camp, Sir FELTON,
BathurSt-lIcrvey, baronet. Upon his
death, soon aftcr-hc committed suicide
she married the Marquis of Car
marthcn, eldest son of the Duke of
Leeds, who inherited his fathers title,
and lived an easy rural, fo~X-hunting,
country life, and left his widow, the
Catherine Louisa, who, rs We have
seen, died last year, an ample fortune,
and the doWer-houSc of liOrnhv Castle.
The second sister, Elizabeth Cation,
also married well-that Is, she married
a nobleman, and he was rich-the
eighth Lord Stafford, of the birmingham
family.
In the meanwhile Robert Patterson
had died, and Mrs. Patterson, a lovely
widow, had returned to England. Pos
sibly her heart turned again to the old
Paris day, and the time of the Army of
Occupation. As in Paris she rcigned,
during that period, in social circles, so
i'll London her triumphs were repeated,
and she could soon boast of having been
the social queen of three countries,
England, France and America, and of
three cities, London, Paris and Balti-
more. Nor was this all. After her
second marriage she conquered the tur-
hulcnt II roland, and the still more tur-
bulent Dublin, for she became the wife
of the Marquis of Wellesley, Niceroyo of
Ireland, previously Governor-Gencral
of India, and the brother of the Duke of
Wellington, Il diamond edition of Il
British nobleman, Is "IIazlitt calls him,
So gifted, small and graceful was he.
Thus we see the ''thrce American
pcerc>Sc>" firmly fixed among the stars
which revoive nearest the English
throne. When we consider that only
five American ladies have ever welded
the poSerSS0rS of British cOrOnet>-the
other two being Miss Magrudcr, of
Washington, who married Baron Abin-
ger, and Miss Bingham, of Philadel-
phia, whose husband, Alexander Bar
ING, was raised to the pcera~e in 1880
a. Baron AShburt0n-and that of these
five three belonged to one family, the
distinguished one in American history of
Charles Carroll-thc fact has al addi-
tional interest, which iuStiticS Il few
"reminiscences of an elder day and gen
Many citizens of Baltimore rcmem-
Der, Is visions of their youth, the beau
tiful Misses Cation. These gentlemen
of the old school, who still remain with
lis, and retain all the fine old courtesy
and S0ftncSS of hammer which are too
often Il dumb sarcasm on those of our
pert modern age, delight to talk of the
when the CAROLS, the Ridgleys,
the divers, and the Gilmors, displayed
the hospitality of merchant-princes,
and when their wives and daughters act
ed all their lives the stately parts we
now for the amusement of an
evening.
They tell lis that Elizabeth Cation,
who became Lady Stafford, was tall
and remarkably graceful, with eyes of
dark gray, expressing quickly both
and intelligence. She was more
cultivated in literature than her
sisters, and her society was more large
y sought by men of letters, and the
statesmen and thinkers of the time,
than by the ordinary beaux of society,
for her mental qualities were brilliant
and attractive. At the time of her wo-
manhood it was an important part of
education to cultivate Il talent for con-
verSation. If a man of celebrity ut Il
.dinner-party or elsewhere began to
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