Omaha daily bee., 1883-08-01

ordained a priest when arriving at the
age of maturity. AT the college he was
named James Ord, and while under age
received regularly large yearly allowances,
which plainly proved that his parents,
whoever they were, we're of the wealthy
class. Though ordained a priest, the
young man never administered in the
Church. In the war of 1912 he joined
the army, where he received the title of
general and came to Cumberland. There
he met the daughter of Colonel Daniel
Crosap-from whom Dams Mountain de-
rived its name-and subsequently mar
ried that estimable lady. Colonel
Cresap and Captain Lynn served in the
same army and the Colonel died before
the wal was V General Ord returned
to Washington after some years residence
on his wifc'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, Cali
fornia, and amassed a very large fortune.
He died in 1873 at the age of so years,
leaving seven sons and a daughter as his
only representatives of his family in this
country, for all trace of his parentage was
lost in his youth by the burning 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 Paciticus; the
third, Placidus, now travelling in Europe
in search of his ancestral lineage; the
names Of the Others are Lycurgus, John,
Marcellus and James. The only daughter
living was named Georgiana, and was
married to a foreign Minister many years
ago, whose name our informant could not
furnish.
1t is believed here by the Cresap fam.
lily that General Ord vas n grandson OF
George w and Mrs. Fitzherbert, tc
whom he was married by a Protestant
priest while Prince Regent. The con.
sent 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 a tutor named
Ord, who immigrated with him to this
country. The youth took the name OF
his tutor, and married a lady in Mary.
land by whom he had two sons, Atlanti.
Gus and Paciticus. The first was sent to
West Point and the second becamea law
yer in New Orleans, and i%mmigratcd to
California twenty-five years ago, where
he held the position of judge. Earl Rus.
sell, in his ''Life of Fox" denies that
there was any issue, and says: "Fortu.
nately for the nation, the marriage of the
Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert
was not cursed with issue" There
is a sequel to this sin.
gular story, and which Ear
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 annuity to a former editor
of the Morning Post-the plaintiff in the
action-for suppressing some letter which
the editor had threatened to publish re.
latlng to the Princes marriage with Mrs
Fitzherbert. The defendant in the &C,
ton was sued for a libel consisting in the
charge that the former editor of the
Morning Post, afterwards a magistrat,
in the county of Suffolk, had been guilty
of obtaining and receiving hush money
from the Prince of Wales. The defend
ant pleaded and proved hat the charge
vas true, and the jury gave him a yer
dict. The payment of the annuity wal
distinctly traced through several person.
to the treasurer of the Duchy of Corn,
wall, N of the Princes officers.