The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-02

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tears in her half blind eyes.
zE. The Heiresses of New York.
New York Correspondence.
Probably no city in the United States
has so many beautiful and what club
men call ''eligible' heiresses as New
York, and,. as have written of the
rich widows and bachelors, some facts
and figures concerning the maid
ems rich and fancy free may be as
readable as interesting. 1t is not in
appropriate to head the list with Miss
Marcia Roosevelt, although she is an
orphan, her father, ex-Judge Roose-
welt, having died two years ago, and
her mother last winter in Paris. The
Roosevelts came of good Knickerbock-
er stock, and were for many years con.
spicuous among the elite. Mrs. Roose-
welt was Miss Van Ness, and her
father was Minister to Spain. She
WAS a beautiful and talented lady in
her younger days, and a great enter
tainer at the old Roosevelt mansion of
Broadway, near Thirteenth street.
At her death she left her, property,
valued at $2,000,000, to Miss Marcia,
her only daughter. and, it is said, to
the exclusion of her sons. The young
lady inherits many of her distin-
guished mothers talents, and is al
most 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,
etc. She spends some Of her winters
in Europe and her summers at New
port, where the Stevens cottage is OPP
posite the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens
was Miss Reed, of Boston, and her
sister, who is completing her musical
education in Paris, is engaged to Mr..
Moses H. Grinnell, formerly Collector
of the Port.
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, will one day come in possession
of many hundred thousands. She is
a very clever and accomplished young
lady, and acts as her fathers secre-
tary. They live plainly, but hand.
somely and comfortably. in large
double House on Twelfth street, Just
west of Fifth avenue.
Miss Andrews, daughter of the late
Loring Andrews, the millionaire, is
destined to be one eff the richest ladies
in America, her fathers estate being
SIS, 100000. She is now in Europe
with her mother, and their magnificent
country seat at Newport has been rent
ed to Mr.. Havemeyer, the Austrian
Consul-General at New York. Miss
Andrews is not yet 10 years of age,
and very eautiful.
Miss Josephene Hoey is the daughter
of John Hoey, head Of Adams Express
Company, whose wife was once leading
lady at Wallacks Theatre. The young
lady is possibly two and twenty Years
Of age, stylish, a I'd the best "whip"
at Long Branch, where the Hoeys have
their summer residence. She drives
pair of cream-colored horses to a
basket-carriage, and is known to all
the habitues of the Branch. John
Hoey began life at the lowest round
of the ladder, and now he is worth
sail the way up from S750,00O. Jo-
sephene is the only daughter.
Miss Moller is daughter of William
Moller, the sugar refiner whom every
body thought rich until he failed
about a year ago. She is very stylish
and effective, and has been much adj
mired in Paris and Vienna. The Cos
sips say her father settled half mill
lion on her years ago, and she has
always been regarded as an heiress by
young men in search of a rich wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter Of the late
Charles Lamont, who fell from the
window of his house on Fifth avenue,
I one summers night while his family
were at West Point, and was instantly
killed, is with her mother at the
West End, Long Branch. She is Just
Of age, very handsome and fascinating.
It is reported that she is to be- mar
ried in the fall. Her dot will be fully
$250.000.
Miss Aston and Miss Chandler, niece
! and granddaughter Of the late W. B.
Astor, are both heiresses TO large for
tunes.
So is Miss Kernochan, daughter of
| Mr.. J. P. kernochan, who lately paid
| $4,000 cash for the celebrated Bar
| reda Mansion on Madison avenue.
Miss Smith, niece of Mrs. a. T.
Stewart, has a large estate settled UP.
on her since the merchant princes
| death, and is now in Paris with Mrs.
| Stewart.
Miss Barlow, daughter of S. L. NJ.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer; Miss Cooper,
granddaughter Of Peter Cooper; Miss
! Brown, daughter of James Brown of
Brown Brothers; Miss Lee, daughter
| of Willialn IL Lee: and Miss MORGAN