Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-08-18
RICH GIRLS.
Tho Heiresses of New York.

Tho Heiresses of New York.
N. Y. Cor. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.
Probably no city IN the United
States has SO many beautiful and
whatclub men call "eligible" helresses
as New York, and, as | have written
of the rich widows and bachelors,
and facts and particulars concerning
the maidens rich and fancy free may
be as readable as interesting. 1t is
not inappropriate to head the list
with Miss Marcia Roosevelt, although
she is an orphan, her father, ex-Judge
Roosevelt, having died two years ago
and her mother last winter in Paris.
The Roosevelts came of good Knick-
erbocker stock, and were for many
years conspicuous among the clitc.-
Mrs. Roosevelt was a Miss Van Ness,
and her father was minister to Spain.
She was a beautiful and talented lady
in her younger days, and great en-
tertainer at the old Roosevelt man.
sion on Broadway, near Thirteenth
street. At her death, she left her
property, valued at s2,ooO,ooo, to
Miss Marcia, her only daughter, and
it is said, to the e.exclusion of her sons.
The young lady inherits many of her
distinguished mothers talents, and Is
almost as general favorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter of the late
Col. Paran Stevens, of hotel fame, is
hciress 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 cot
tage is opposite the Ocean House.
Mrs. Stevens was a Miss Reed, of
Boston, and her sister who is COM
pleting 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 posses
sion of many hundred thousands
She is a very clever and accomplish
ed young lady, and acts as her fathers
secretary. They live plainly, but
handsomely and comfortably, in a
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 Of the richest
ladies in America, her fathers estate
being s5,OOO,OOO. She is now in Eu-
rope with her mother, and their mag
niticent country seat at Newport has
been rented to Mr.. Hayemeyer, the
Austrian consul general at New York.
Miss Andrews is not yet 10 years Of
age and very beautiful.
Miss Josephine Hoey is the daugh-
ter of John Hoey, head of Adams
Express Company, whose wife was
once the leading lady at Wallack's
theatre. 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 pair of cream
colored horses to basket carriage,
and is known to all the habitants of
the Branch. John Hoey began life
at the lowest round of the ladder, and
is now worth call the way up" from
s75o.ooo. Josephine is the only
daughter.
Miss Moller is a daughter of VIM.
Mollcr, the sugar refiner, whom every
body thought rich until he failed
about year ago. She is very stylish
and effective, and has been much ad
mired 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 heir
ess by young men in search of a rich
wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter of the late
Charles Lamont, who fell from the
window of his hause on Fifth avenue
one summers night while his 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 handsome and fascinating.
1t is reported that she is to be married
in the fall Her dot Will be fully
s25O,O0o.
Miss Astor and Miss Chandler,
niece and granddaughter of the late
w. b. Astor, 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 Bar
reda 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 S. L. NJ.
Barlow, the Erie lawyer; Miss Coop
er, granddaughter of Peter Cooper;
Miss Brown, daughter OF James
Brown, of Brown Brothers; Miss
Lee, daughter of William II. Lee,
and Miss Morgan, are all heiresses,
and there are others whose names at
this writing l do not recall.