The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-30
THE LATE GENERAL ORD.
Full Statement Concerning His Alleged
Royal Ancestry,

Royal Ancestry,
Cumberland (Mdl Letter to Pittsburg Dispatch.
Ere the beginning OF the present century,
a priest arrived from England at the Roman
Catholic college then located at Washington,
D.. c., bringing with him a lad about eight
years old, who, together with a handsome
casket and a miniature OF the lads mother,
was left in charge of the college authorities.
The lad was brought up within the precincts
of the college, educated for the priesthood
and ordained a priest when arriving at the
age OF maturity. At the college he was
named James Ord, and while under age re-
ceived regularly large yearly allowances,
which plainly proved that the parents, who
ever they were, were of the wealthy class.
Though ordained a priest, the young man
never administered in the church. In the
war of 1872 he joined the army, where he re-
ceived the title of general and came TO
Cumberland. There he met the daugh-
ter of Colonel Daniel ~Cresap-from whom
Dams Mountain derived its name-and
subsequently married that estimable lady.
Colonel Cresap and Captain Lynn served in
the same army and the Colonel died before
the war was over. General Ord returned to
Washington after some years residence on
his Wife's estate on the upper Potomac, and
was employed in the government service
until within the past twenty years, when he
moved to San Francisco, Cal, and amassed a
very large fortune. He died in 1873 at the
age of eighty years, leaving seven sons and a
daughter as the only representatives of his
family in this country. for all trace of his
parentage was lost in his youth by the burn
ing of the college in which the casket and
miniature before mentioned had been kept.
His Oldest son, Edward Ohio Cresap, died on
Sunday night of yellow fever on his way
from Vera Cruz to New York. He had won
a splendid military record, The second son
was named Pacificus; the third, P~lncious,
now travelling in Europe in search of his
af,noSfra1 1inna uns tho nanonc of fhn ntharJ
are Lycurgus, John, Earcelius and James.
The only daughter living was named
Georgianna and was married to a foreign
minister many years ago, whose name Gr
informant could not furnish.
1t is believed here by the Cresap family
that General Ord was a grandson of George
" and Mrs. Fitzherbert, to whom he WIS
married by a Protestant priest while Prince
Regent. The consent of Parliament had not
been given and the marriage was illegal in
English law. A son was born by this union
and consigned to the care Of 8 tutor named
Ord, who emigrated with him to this coun.
try. The youth took the name of his tutor.
and married a Maryland lady, by whom he
had two sons, Atlanticus and Pacificus. The
first was sent to West Point, and the second
became a lawyer in New Orleans, and emil
grated to California twenty-five years ago,
where he held the position of Judge. Earl
Russell in his Life of Fox denies that
there was any issue, and says Fortunately
for the nation, the marriage of the Prince OF
Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert was not cursed
with sue There is a sequel
to this singular story which Earl Russell
does not tell. In 1912 an action for libel was
tried in the Court of Kings Bench in which
it was clearly proved that the Prince of
Wales had, for twenty years, paid an annui-
ty to a former editor of the Morning Post
the plaintiff in the action-for suppressing
some letters which the editor had threat.
ened to publish, relating to the Princes mar
riage with Mrs. Fitzherbert. The defendant
in the action was sued for libel, consistingin
the charge that the former editor of the
Morning Post. afterwards a magistrate in the
county of Suffolk, had been guilty of obtain
ing and receiving hush money from th.
Prince of Wales. The defendant pleaded
and proved that the charge was true and the
jury gave him a verdict. The payment OF the
al persons to the treasurer of the Duchy OF
Cornwall. one of the Princes officers.