The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-08-23
The Heiresses OF New York.

The Heiresses OF New York.
Probably no city in the United States
has SO many beautiful and what club
men call "cligible" heiresses as New
York, and. as we have written of the
rich widows and bachelors, some facts
and particulars concerning the msidens
rich and fancy free may be as readable
and interesting. 1t is not inappropriate
to head the list with Miss Marcia Roose-
welt, although she is an orphan, her
father, ex Judge Roosevelt, having died
two years ago, and her mother last win,
ter in Paris. The Roosevelts came OF
good Knickerbocker stock, and were fol
many years conspicuous among the
elite. Mrs. Roosevelt was Miss Van
Ness, and hor father was minister to
Spain. She was beautiful and talented
entertainer at the old Roosevelt mansion
on Broadway, near Thirteenth street.
At her death she left her property,
valued at $4,000, 900, to Miss Marcia,
her only daughter, and, it is said, to the
exclusion of her sons. The young lady
inherits many of her distinguished
mothers talents, and is almost as Rener-
al favorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter of the late
Colonel Paran Stevens, of hotel fame,
is h iress to 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 Newport,
where the Stevens cottage is opposite
the Ocean House. Mrs. Stevens was q
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 into posses
sion 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 ladies in Ameri-
ca, bor fathers estate being IS, 900, 900.
She is now in Europe with her mother,
and their magnificent country seat at
Newport has been rented to Mr.. Have
meyer, the Austrian consul general at
New York. Miss Andrews is not yet
nineteen years of age and very beauti-
full.
Miss Josephine Hoey is the daughter
of John Hoey, head of Adams express
company, whose wife was once leading
lady ut Wallack's Theater. The young
lady is possibly two and twenty years Of
age, stylish, and the best "whip at
Long Branch, where the Hoeys have
their summer residence. She drives q
pair of cream colored horses to basket
carriage, and is known to all the
habitues of tho Branch. John Hoey
began life at the lowest round of the
ladder, and is now worth all the way
up" from S750,000. Josephine is the
only daughter.
Miss Moller is daughter of William
Moller, the sugar retiner whom every
body thought rich until he failed about
ear ago. She is very stylish and ef-
fective, and has been much admired in
Paris and Vienna. The gossips say her
father settled half q 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 one
summers night while the family was at
West Point, and was instantly killed, is
with her mother at the West End, Long
Branch. She is just of age, very hand
some and fascinating. It is reported
that she is to be married in the fall.
Her dot will be fully S250,O00.
Miss Astor 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
$112 600 cash for the celebrated Barreda
mansion 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 8. L. M.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer; Miss Cooper,
granddaughter of Peter Cooper; Miss
Brown, daughter of James Brown, of
Brown Brothers; Miss Lee, daughter OF
VIM. II. Lee, and Miss Morgan, daugh-
ter of ex- Governor Morgan, are all heir
esses, and there are others whose names
at this writing we do not recall.-E1-
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