The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-27
TITLED AMERICAN GIRLS.
NEW YORK FURNISHES THE MOST
NOTABLE AND LARGEST LIST.
What Has Grown From the American
Craze for Sacrificing Wealth and
Even Love in Purchasing Alliances
With Nobility


Craze for Sacrificing Wealth and
Even Love in Purchasing Alliances
With Nobility.
from the Ne,o York Graphic.
Miss Alice O'Donnell was married the
other day in Washington to a French Wis
count with long name ard no money.
There is nothing unusual about that, to be
sure. The popularity of the case lies in the
fact that Miss O'Donnell's hard-headed
American father had made such an effort
to prevent this very contamination. He
has been dead some five or six years, and
when lie was alive he commanded large
fortune made in Baltimore in whisky, rags
and junk His wife was a Maryland Car
roll. Her brother, ex-Gov. John Lee Car
roll, and herself have penchant for foreign
titles He has married off both his own
daughters to Continental noblemen some
thing over year ago, the elder 10 Baron
Lagrange, the younger to Count de Klrgs-
lay.
Oliver O'Donnell saw what the last Of her
| relatives was and what the fate of his
daughter was likely to be if he were out Of
the way, and he made a will fOrbidGing
| that she should ever be sent abroad to
school, or travel in Europe, till SIZE reached
a certain mature age All was useless.
| The French Viscount nowadays wanders
farther in search of the American girls
| dollars than the father reckoned on. Hav-
ing his own girls off his hands, the ener-
getic Lee captured him for his niece right
| in the lair of the American eagle.
| The list of American girls married to
| foreign titles is longer than anyone would
care to read, but here are a few:
The two daughters of the late James
Phelen of this city became respectively
| Countess de Gabriac and Countess de Mar
| bonne-Sara
The two Misses Hutton, also New York
ers, married the one Count de Moltke, the
other the Marquis de Parties.
NEW YORK FURNISHES MOST.
New Workers furnish most and the most
notable of the titled American danes. Lady
Churchill is, of course, at the top of the
| pile, and she was Lawrence Jerome's daugh-
| ter.
The Marquiso LAMA, who stays with us
and adorns our plain republican society,
was Miss Hammond, daughter of ex-Sur-
geon General Hammond.
| That lovely and somewhat conspicuously
| original niece of William III. Vanderbilt,
| Miss Nivin, Is now the wife of Baron de
| Soherbriel. who replaced her divorced first
husband, Mr. Milford.
The "cutest" thing in the divorce line is
| done by a lady nee Mattel of New Orleans.
She became Baroness de Friedberg and the
Baron being an even uncommonly worth
less specimen, she got divorce and added
| her own name to her title.
The Countess d'Anglemont was Miss
Thomas, a niece of Pierre Lorlllard, and
the Marquise Suarez d'Aulan, Miss Christ
| mas.
Miss Zimmerman, once the admired of all
a61t intN hall in
! got no farther III the race for title than a
| "Nonn She is Mrs. Won Humbert, bat she
| accomplished the other chief end of woman
and lives in Paris
Another prominent divorce in this field
is Lady Anglesey, who was Miss King, of
| Augusta, Ga.
The two daughters of Francis P. Corbin.
of Virginia. swell the list. The elder mar
ried Marquis de Montmart, the younger
Count de Dompierre.
SISTERS HUNTING IN PAIRS.
Sisters seem to have frequently hunted in
pairs in this chase.
One of the former Misses Thorndike, of
| Boston, is now Countess de Bannclos, and
the other is Countess de Sartiges.
Then there are the whilOm Curtiss girls,
of Murray HiIl-relatives, by the way, of
ex-Gov. Hoffman. The senior became the
| Warehouses de Taleyrand- Perigord and
that the husband is not already married to
another American.
Her experience did not brighten off her
| younger sister. very pretty girl. who mar
ried two or three years ago Prince Rus
foil. Miss Curtiss was his third wife
Marchioness dc Chasselouf Laubat and
| Baroness do Hirsch are sisters, nee Piles. of
New Orleans. There has, boon report
that the Marchioness de Mares, nee Medora
Won Hoffman, was about to seek divorce,
| but it seems to be without foundation. She
and her husband are now hunting in India,
and her ambition is to be the best feminine
shot in the country and the first woman to
kill a rhinoceroS.
Yet another pair of sisters, by the wav.
are the Misses Thorn, who used to entertain
so beautifully at West Sixteenth street,
and who are now respectively Baroness dc
Pierre and Countess de Fensos.
Miss Urquart, a half-sister of the Hon.
Robert McLane, is Baroness de Baigne
One of the most charming houses in Paris
is that of the Viscountess de Courval, for
merly Miss Ray, of New York. She is
now a real sure enough widow, not the veg
etabe kind
Baroness de Obarette, wife of the COM
mander of the Pontifical Zouaves. was Miss
| Polk, daughter of Col. Polk, of Nashville,
Tenn, and granddaughter of Bishop Polk.
who was killed in battle during the war,
nov Oh ieSlutHb ok, us mas Deen OTUen
stated. Her husband is a nephew of the
late Count de Chambord, and, of course, a
bitter royalist.
But of this there is no end.
LESS MARKED BY DIVORCES.
Another list, almost as long and less
marked by divorce notes, could be made of
American women who have married men,
particularly Frenchmen, without title, but
prominent through their brains.
| Mme. Waddington, wife of the French
! Ambassador to England, was Miss King, of
| New York. Her father was once President
Of Columbia College.
Both of her sis ers married diplomats also,
though this time one is an American diplo-
mat One is the wife of the Hon. Eugene
Schuyler, aud the other Mr.. Westenburg,
who once represented the Netherlands in
Washington, ami woo is now accredited to
the Court OF King Humbert. The Wad-
dingtOns are really as much English as
French, rs their name indicates. This gen
Grafton was born in Paris of English par-
ents NJ. Ri OF is a conspicuous French
| politician married to the daughter of a
once prominent Chicago banker named
! Burch.
Nine. Clomenceau is an American. She
was Mary Plunmer, of Greenwich, Conn.
and first met her husband in Connect
cut boarding school, where he was teaching
| French.
| And how came il that M Cle,uenceau