The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-02
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, us [ 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. It 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-
CT stock, and were for many years con.
spicuous among the elite. Mrs. Roose-
welt was a Miss Van Ness, and her
father WAS Minister to Spain. She
was q 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 $2,000,0O0, 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 op-
posite the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens
was a Miss Reed, Of Boston, and her
sister, who is completing her musical
education in Paris, is engaged to Mr..
Moses II. Grinnell, formerly Collector
of the Port.
Miss Weed, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, will one day come in possession
of many hundred thousands. She is
4 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 cautiful.
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 s'whip''
at Long Branch, where the Hoeys have
their summer residence. She drives
a pair of cream-colored horses to a
basket-carriage, and is known to all
the llabitues of the Branch. John
lIoey began life at the lowest round
of the ladder, and now he is worth
"all the way up from $s750,O00. Jo-
sephene is the only daughter.
Miss Moller is a daughter of William
Moller, the sugar refner whom every
body thought rich until he failed
about a year ago. She is very stylish
and effective, and has been much ad-
mired in Paris and Vienna. The gos-
sips say her father settled half a mil
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,
one summers night while his family
were at West Point. and WAS instantly
killed, is with her mother aJ the
West End. Long Branch. She is Just
Of age, very handsome and fascinating.
It is reported that she is to be mar
riod in the fall. Her dot will be fully
$3.50. 600.
Miss 4istor and Miss Chandler, niece
and granddaughter Of the late W. 3.
Astor, are both heiresses TO large for
tunes.
So is Miss Kernoc}lan, 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. \. I.
Stewart, has large estate settled up.
on her since the merchant princes
death, and is now III Paris with Mrs.
Stewart.
Miss Barlow, daughter Of S. L. NJ.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer Miss Cooper,
granddaughte of Peter Cooper; Miss
Brown. daughter Of james Brown Of
Brown Brothers Miss Lee, daughter
Of William II. Lee; and Miss Morgan,
daughter Of ex-Gov. Morgan, are all
actresses, ana there are others whose
names at this writing do not recall.
Caledonia Journal: Because we hap
pen to take our shotgun and start for a Sat-
urday afternoons cunning, it is no reason
that halfa dozen impudent persons should
impure if we were on tour collecting sub