Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-05
MRS. B0NAPARTE PATTERSON.
THE LAST SURVIVING SlSTER-lN-
LAW
OF the Great Napoleon and Vile Of Jerome
BOnaparte-Her Death Yesterday in
Batimore-The Most EyentFul
Life Of One Of the Most
Interesting Charac-
tiers in History
Closed.
Death Of Madame Bonaparte.

BALTIMORE, April 4.-Madame Bona
partc died this afternoon IA little past
one.
In the Baltimore Pa,isral Gd:rtte OF
Tuesday, December -, 1905, was pub
lished the following marriage notice:
MARRIED. on Saturday evening last,
by the Reverend Bishop Carroll, Mr..
Jerome Bonap1rtc, Youngest brother OF
the First Consul of the French Repub-
he. 10 Miss Elizabeth Patterson. Oldest
daughter oi William Patterson, esquire,
of this city.
The bride oi that memorial marriage
Mrs. BOnaplrte Patterson, IL the lady
mentioned in the above dispatch aS ~
inc at the point Ol death today IN her
residence. corner Oi Cathedral and Reade
streets. Baltimore. She Is the woman
Of whom Lady Morgan wrote, she be-
longs 10 history; she lived with kings
and princes, philosophers and artists;
there i about her 4 perpetual curiosity
AMI romance.
William Patterson, her father, was
the son of a farmer IN Donegal, Ireland,
who m the age of fourteen was sen: to
Philadelphia and placed in the count
inc house Of Samuel Jackson, ship
pins.merchant. SaiIell says that he
STOOD shoulder 10 shoulder with Rob
ert Morris and Stephen Girtrt, with
open purse bearing the financial weight
al the Revolution, and the subsequent
dark DAYS nj the republic, enjoyed IN
a high degree the friendship Of Washing
tom. LAFAYETTE and Carrall' and wei
coined Rechambcuu nj Newport ana
d'Estaing i'm TIE Chesapeake. In ms
will William Paterson said that IN lao
he embarked his property IN vessels
trading in France with returning car
goes III powder and arms, that his sup
ply arrived at a critical moment To aid
Washington before Boston, that he
made $4,000 i'm the West Indies and
coin, thence 20 Baltimore increased that
IN a million. 81 have made the fortunes
OF some. saved others from ruin and
fond bread and employment for thou
sands OF my fellOw-mortalS, this singu,
Iar document reads, "and no one could
ever saw 10 me 'neighbor and iriend,
won cot the advantage of me-you acted
nngrnerously 10 me-" A friend OF his
ulnMnteT OtSIIlUNe MN 80 " $500
tcyrity in business relations, but close
anu arbitrary in his family and by no
means improbable in morality. After
long importuning his wife obtained from
him a promise to import for her a char,
lot: ne kept il, but as the promise did
NOT include horses the vehicle remained
in the coach-house till his death. To
Mrs. Patterson, a terder, religious and
well cultured woman, their daughter
owed her familiarity with English ana
French classics; RoeheiOucaulds Max,
inns" she had by heart, and at ten could d
recite whole pages of Might Thoughts
which remained in her memory, Tor
three-ouarters Of a century, though IN
the interim she had never opened q vol
ume Of Young. Toa prodigious memo
~ she added a quick mind and spark,
| ling wit: her manners were fascinating
and her beauty remarkable. =,
Betsey Patterson was less tnan ekp-
teen when in 1903 abe met Napoleon
youngest brother, Jerome Sonsp&''e'