The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-09-23
AN AMERICAN BoNAPARTE DEAD.

AN AMERICAN BONAPARTE DEAD.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15.-AIrs. Jerome
Napoleon Bonaparte died to- day at her
residence, IS Park avenue. She had
been unconscious from last Sunday up
to her death. At her bedside this
morning were present her two sons,
Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and
Charles j. Bonaparte. She was 60
years of age. The immediate cause of
her death was paralysis.
The husband of the deceased woman,
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, was the
only child of Jerome Bonaparte by his
marriage to Elizabeth Patterson. He
was born at Cafnberwell, England,
July z, 1905. Hegraduated at Harvard
College in 1926 and studied law, but
never practised. He frequently visit
ed Europe, and he and his father were
on the best of terms. While travelling
| in Europe he attracted considerable
attention on account of his striking re-
semblance to his uncle, Napoleon the
Great. He visited Napoleon the Third
several times, by whom he was cor
daily received. In 1929 lie married
tho lady who died today, then Miss
father, Mr.. Benjamin Williams, was 4
shipping merchant and wealthy
citizen, who had come to Baltimore
from Roxbury, Mass. The marriage
ceremony was performed by the Arch
bishop Whitfield, aud on account Of
one of the parties being a Protestant it
took place at the dwelling instead of
the Cathedral. Nine. Patterson Bona
partc was violently opposed to the
match, rs it was her ambition that her
only son should assert his position as a
member of the imperial family OF
: France, and should seek to advance
such pretcnsions in choosing q wife
"You prefer to join the common herd y
she bitterly remarked, ssborn to draw
nutrition, propagate, and rot" After
He died June II, 1870.
fl The first son Of this marriage was
named aftcr his father. Jerome Napo
lasesn BonaParte. Col. Bonaparte, who
Is well-known in Newport society
graduated at WestPoint in 1852, served
: as Lieutenant on frontier duty unit
l 1854, when he resigned. He entered
the French army, served in the Crimcan
war, was made knight of the ssLegion
, of Honor of France" and received the
Crinean medal from the Queen OF
! England for distinguished military
services. He was in the Algerian cam
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pafgn against Austria in 1850, was in
garrison at various posts from 1859 to
1867, and in the guard of the Empress
of France from 1867 to 1874. On the
fall of the empire he with difficulty
escaped with his life from the Com
mune of Paris. In 1871 he returned to
this country, and married in the same
year, at Newport, Mrs. Caroline Leroy
Edgar, formerly Miss Appleton, grand
daughter of Daniel Webster. Col.
Bonaparte resided in the United States
until 1873, when he went to Europe,
and has been living in Paris most OF
the time since. He returned in 1879 to
be present during the last illness of his
grandmother, Nine. Patterson-Bona-
parte. He has two children, a daueh-
ter and a son. He had come to Balti-
more recently, and was with his mother
this morning during her last moments.
The second son is Charles Joseph Bona
partc, born in 1851, prominent mem
Der of the Baltimore bar. He was
married Sept. 1, 1876, to Miss Ellen
Charming Day of Boston, and is now
residing in Baltimore County at his
country seat, about four miles from the
city, on an estate presented to him by
his grandmother, Nine. Patterson
Bonapartc.