Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-15
NJ, Hickey Harden.

n. Hickey Harden, Baron of st.
Patrick, says correspondent OF the
N. Y. Tribune, came into the world in
California, and there passed his early
youth. The fame of some aristocratic
marriages accomplished in Europe by
California young ladies had powerful
effect on the imagination of his parents
and of the future nobleman. They set
them thinking about an illustrious irish
pedigree, and about legendary estates
confiscated in the Rebellion of 1898.
With California gold young Hickey
Harden or Harden Hickey, for his name
is given both ways, was handsomely
started in life over here. He was
placed in French school, and then
sent to st. Cyr. His object in going
there was eventually to qualify for a
command in national Irish army, and
to win back the NEUROLOGICAL estates in
which he has brought himself to be-
lieve. I know Ireland very we'll, and
the part of it from which the Baron of
st. Patrick tells his French friends that
his family was expelled. My memory
is stored with legions about the old
families of the county Wexford, who
were compromised in the different in
surrections against the English author
ity. But cannot remember ever hav-
ing heard in my life of anybody in that
part OF Ireland of the name of Hickey
who possessed freehold estate toward
the end Of last century or earlier.
There were Hickeys who we're carriers
and dealers in whisky in small shebeen
houses, and the aristocrst of the family
was an auctioneer. Harden is a good
name on the borders of Scotland. But
before the Encountered Estates act was
passed, as much could not be said OF it
in Ireland. It was essentially work
ing.class name, like Mclaughlin, Nc.
Hugh, or Meehan. So far back, it ap-
pears, as the time of James H., Ger.
tain Patrick Hickey came to France,
and through the prescribed English
King at st. Germans, obtained COM
mission in the Irish regiment, which
was incorporated with the army of
Louis XIV. Like Marshal McMahon' q
grandfather, DR.. Patrick, this Hickey
was q tall, handsome, dashing fellow,
and walked into the affections of rich
and titled lady, free to dispose of her
hand and Of her fortune. She married
him, and they left descendants. now
represented by some ladies of good
family and Legitimist and ultra atho.
lie principles. The Baron of st. Pat
rick naturally found in the emigration
of Hickey to France in the seven
teenth century confirmation of the 10.
gendary pedigree which nobody looked
into nor questioned. A good. looking
young fellow, with $780, 900 francs q
year, who understands how to put the
best leg foremost and can deal in tall
talk without making himself ridiculous
might claim here, without provoking
contradiction, to be descended from
Romulus and Remus, or. for that mat
ter, from the she-wolf that nursed them.
Baron Hickey Harden is now about six.
and-twenty. He is fair-haired, tall,
wears ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS clothes, does
not strike one as being fop, has good
seat on horseback, and is an excellent
judge of horse-desh. He married q
Signora Sampierra three years ago.
She claims on her side to be of still
more ancient descent than her husband
having had for her ancestor in the di-
rect line no less parsonage than the
Apostle Peterl According to the Sam.
pierra mythology. the Prince of the
Apostles was q widower when he came
to Rome. A patrician lady fell in love
with him, and the saint was not by any
means Indifferent to her charms. To
convert her and to obtain her protection
at the Court of Nero for his fellow.
Christians he married her; and the day
on which he was cruoifed, with his
head downward, She gave birth to q
son. Hence the name of Sampierra
which the families bear who are de-
scended in the male line from this
Roman Tristan.