Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-08-04
something to Make the Young
Mems Mouths Water.

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Probably no city in the United States has
so many beautiful and what men call cell
| gible heiresses as New York, and, as |
have written OF the rich widows and bach
| elors, some facts and particulars concern
ing the maidens rich and fancy free may
be as readable and interesting. 1t is not
inappropriate to head the list with Miss
Marcia Roosevelt, although she is an or
phan, her father, ex-Judge Roosevelt, hav-
ing died two years ago, and her mother
last winter in Paris. The Roosevelts came
of good knickerbocker stock, and were for
many years conspicuous among the elite.
Mrs. Roosevelt was Miss VanNess, and
her father was minister to Spain. She was
a beautiful and talented lady in her young
er days, and great entertainer at the old
Roosevelt mansion of Broadway near Thir-
tenth street. At her death she left her
property, valued at $2,000,O00, to Miss
Marcia, her only daughter, and. it is said,
to the exclusion of her sons The young
lady inberits many Of her distinguished
mothers talents, and is almost as general
a favorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter Of the late Col.
Paran Stevens, of hotel fame, is heiress to
a million odd, and reported engaged to an
English nobleman. She is young, pretty
and stylish, fond of society, horse racing,
yachting. polo, &c. She spends some of
her winters in Europe and her summers
at Newport, where the Stevens cottage is
opposite the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens
was Miss Reed, of Boston, and her Sis
ter, who is completing her musical educa-
ton in Paris, is engaged to Mr.. Moses Ell.
Grinnell, formerly collector of the port
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow Weed,
will one day come into possession of many
hundred thousands. She is very clever
and accomplished young lady, and acts as
her fathers secretary. They live plainly,
but handsomely and comfortably, in
large double house on Twelfth street, just
west of Fifth Avenue.
Miss Andrews, daughter of the late Lor-
ing Andrews, the millionaire, is destined
to be one of the richest women in America,
her fathers estate being $5,000,000. She
is now in Europe with her mother, and
their magnificent country seat at Newport
has been rented to Mr.. Hevemeyer, the
Austrian Consul General at New York.
Miss Andrews is not yet nineteen years of
age and very beautiful.
Miss Josephine Hoey is the daughter of
Jno. Hoey, head of Adams Express Com
pany, whose wife was once leading lady at
Wallack's theatre. The young lady is pos
sibly two and twenty years of age, stylish,
and the best "whip" at Long Branch,
where the Hoeys have their summer re-
sidence. She drives a pair of cream-col-
ored horses to basket carriage and IS
known to all the inhabitants of the Branch.
John Hoey began life at the lowest round
of the ladder, and is now worth ''all the
way up'' from $750.000. Josephine is the
only daughter.
Miss Moller is a daughter of VIM. Mol
Ter, the sugar refner, whom everybody
thought rich until he failed about year
ago. She is very stylish and effective, and
has been much admired in Paris and
Vienna. The gossips say her father settled
half a million on her years ago, and she has
always been regarded as an heiress by
young men in search of rich wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter Of the late
Charles Lamont, who fell from the win
dow of his house on Fifth avenue on sum-
mer's night while the family was at Vest
Point, and was instantly killed, is with
her mother at the West End, Long
Branch. She is just Of age, very handsome
and fascinating. 1t is reported that she
is to be married in the fall. Her dot will
be fully $25O,OO0.
Miss Astor and Miss Chandler, niece I
and grand daughter of the late W. B. As
tor, are both heiresses to large fortunes.
So is Miss Kernochan, daughter of Mr..
j. P. Kernochan, who lately paid $4,000 |
cash for the celebrated Barreda Mansion, J
on Madison avenue.
Miss Smith, niece of Mrs. A. T. Stewart,
has large estate settled upon her since
the merchant princes death, and is now
in Paris with Mrs. Stewart.
Miss Barlow, daughter of S. L. M. Bar
low, the Erie lawyer; Miss Cooper, grand
daughter of Peter Cooper; Miss Brown,
daughter of James Brown, of Brown J
Brothers; Miss Lee, daughter of William
H. Lee, and Miss Morgan, daughter of
Governor Morgan, are all heiresses, and
there are others whose names at this writ
ing do not recall. -Bubnlo Advertiser.