The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-25
rho He,res.es OF New York
New York correspondence OF the Builaio Comsn'
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aTNc,y York correspondence OF the Bufalo CONNER
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! Probably no city in the United States has
30 many beautiful, and what club men call
IS eligible" ,heiresses as New York, and as
have written OF the rich widows and baehe-
! lors, some facts and particulars concerning
The maidens, rich and fancy free, may DC as
readable and interesting. II Is not inappfo-
pirate TO head the list with Miss Marcia
Roosevelt, although she Is an orphan, her
father, ex-Judge Roosevelt, having died two
wears ago, and her mother last winter In
paris, The Rooseyelts came OF good knick-
erbocker stock, and were for many years
conspicuous among the ellie. Mrs. Roose>
welt was a Miss Van Ness, and her father
was Minister to Spain. She was beau
tiful and talented lady In her younger
DAYS, and a great entertainer at the old
Roosevelt mansion Of Broadway, near Thir-
5 teenth street. At her death she lett her
! property, valued at g, 000, 600, to Miss Mar
\ cha, her only daughter, and, it is said, to the
exclusion OF her sons. The young lady In
herits many OF her distinguished mothers
talents, and is almost as general fayorite.
Miss Stevens, daughter Of the late Colonel
s Paran Stevens, OF hotel fame, is heiress to O
; million odd, and reported engaged to on
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 al
Newport, where the Stevens cottage is OPP
Dosite 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, form
erly collector OF the port.
Miss Weed, daughter Of Thurlow Weed
will one day come in possession OF many
hundred thousands. She is very clever
and accomplished young lady, and acts o.
but handsomely and comfortably, in larg'
double house on Twelfth street just west o
Fifth avenue.
Miss Andrews, daughter OF the late Lo
1. ring Andrews, the millionaire, is destined
to be one OF the richest ladies in America
her fathers estate being S5,000,000. She
now in Europe with her mother, and thei
magnificent country-seat ut Newport Ia
beenrented to Mr.. Hayermeyer, the Austrian
Consul General ut New York. Miss An
drews is not yet nineteen years OF age, an
very beautiful.
Miss Josephine Hoey is the daughter o
John Hoey, head Of Adams Express Com
pany, whose wife was once leading lady a
Wallack's Theatre. The young lady is pos
sibly two and twenty years OF age, stylish
and the best "whip" ut Long Branch
where the Hoeys have their summer resi-
dence. She drives pair OF cream-colore'
horses to basket-carriage, and is known t
all the habitaleS of the Branch. John Hoe
began life at the lowest round OF the ladder
and is now worth "all. the way up" from
s750,O0O. Josephine is the only daughter
Miss Moller is daughter OF William
Moller, the sugar refiner, whom everybod.
thought rich until he failed about yea
$50 cl,o So, Hory of op6 pffartiya am
has been much admired 10 Paris and vi
emma. The gossips say her father settlet
half million on her years ago, and she ha
ALWAYS been regarded as an heiress b.
Young men in search OF rich wife.
Miss Lamont, daughter OF the late Charlie
Lamont, who fell from the window Of hi
house, on Fifth avenue, one summer
night while the family was at West Point
and was instantly killed, is with her mothc
at the West End, Long Branch. She is jus
of age, very handsome and fascinating. L
is reported that she is to be married in TIT
fall. Her dot will be fully $3.50, 1000.
Miss Astor and Miss Chandler, niece ant
granddaughter of the late W. B. Astor, ar
both heiresses to large fortunes.
So is Miss Kernochan, daughter OF MIR. }
2. Kernochan, who lately paid S112, 900 casl
for the celebrated Barrcda Mansion on Madi
son avenue.
Miss Smith, niece Of Mrs. A. II. Stewart
has large estate settled upon her since tn
merchant princes death, and is now il
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
Brothers; Miss Lee, daughter OF William
H. Lee, and Miss Morgan, daughter of eX
Governor Morgan, are all heiresses. ant
there are others whose names at this writing
I do not recall.