The Portland daily press., 1889-06-05
FLORENCE MAVERICKS HISTORY.
The Daughter of a Brilliant, Accom-
plished, Adventurous Woman
Who Spent MANY Of Her Youthful
Years In Portland.
The Romance and checkered Career
of a Woman of the World.

death of her husband by poison, and several
Of the leading New York papers have had
more or less to say about the family of Mrs.
Maybrick land particularly about her
mother, who was Portland women which
her acquaintances and friends here do not
believe. This is the history of Mrs. May
brick, her husband, and the case now on
trial:
Joseph II. Ingraham was one of the oldest
and most wealthy of all Portland's citizens
In Smith a. Deane's diary it is stated that
he was man of marked benevoence. He
came to this city from York in 1868, when
but sixteen years Of age, and learned the
goldsmith trade from John Butler. He
married Abigail Milk, daughter of Deacon
Milk, for his first wife, in 1775, and by her
had a son, James Milk, and died in 1S49.
He married Lydia Stone of Brunswick, for
his second wife, who did not long survive,
and for third wife he married Ann Tate
the sister of Admiral Tate, who was created
rear-admiral in the Russian Navy by
Catherine. He built the first house erected
in Portland after Mowatt bombarded the
town, situated on Fore street fronting
where Long wharf now stands, and also
built Commercial wharf. He opened Mar
ket street from Middle to Fore streets. His
| sister was Judge Preble's mother.
| James Milk Ingraham, the son of Joseph,
was a man of large property, and he lived in
the mansion on the corner of Tate and Dan
| forth streets, now occupied and owned by
Hon. w. w. Thomas. He, too, was benevo-
lent like his father. He owned, among
other landed property, Sc acres of land, in
Guiding Park and State streets, and gave
State street to the city. He married Betsey
Thurston, daughter of Rev. BENJAMIN
Thurston-who was graduate of Harvard
College, and a trustee of that institution
and Sarah Phillips, daughter of Governor
John Phillips of Massachusetts The wed
ding took place November %, 1904, and he
died in 1858.
James Milk Ingraham had large family.
His second child was Elizabeth Thurston In
graham. She was not woman of great
personal attraction, but, from. her family po-
sition, was one of the leaders of society when
the first quarter of this century had drawn
to close. Among the many suitors for her
hand was Mr.. ID. B. Holbrook. a gentleman,
who was known in the society of the day.
as the man who made Cairo, H., from the
fact that by his energy and business skill In
placing the bonds of the young city, and
making its geographical advantages known,
Cairo became populous place. Mr. Hol-
brook was successful in his suit and after
the wedding Mr.. and Mrs. Holbrook moved
to New York. They had daughter Caro-
line, who was sent to one of the fashionable
French boarding schools of the times, and
who Joined to pleasing face and person, the
possession of all the social accomplishments
that were not, at that period, so frequently
met with in the danes de societe, as they
are now, and therefore called for much more
general remark. She spoke French fluently
and was much admired by foreigners of dis
tinction who happened to visit our shores.
Carrie Holbrook, while still quite young,
went to Mobile in 1853 to visit her uncle, the
Rev. ]. FL. Ingraham, who was the rector of
ST. Johns church in that city. and writer
of considerable repute. For many years he
furnished the story papers of the day with
what would now be styled "dime novels"
but later he became known as the author of
works OF different character. among them
Prince OF the House of David" While in
Mobile, the features that constituted the So
cial attractions of Miss Holbrook in New
York, were even more potent among the
Southern cavaliers. Among her admirers
was William G. Chandler. son of one Of the
most prominent merchants of that city.
Quiet, prepossessing, brilliant conversa-
tionalist, never for moment disturbed out
of her reposeful manner, Chandler, who was
one of Mobiles leading young business men,
educated and refined, because infatuated
with her. He followed her to New York
and sought her hand from her father. Mr..
Hoibrook objected. Not, he said, to Mr..
Chandler in particular, but to his daughters
marrying any one before she had seen some-
thing more, after her school girl days, of So
ciety and the world. Carrie, however, would
not obey her fathers behest One morning,
she collected some of her clothing and Jew
elry, eloped from her fathers house, and at
high noon, as the bells of Old Trinity
chimed the midday hour, in that historic
edifice she was united to Mr.. Chandler,
whose father gave away the bride.
Returning to Mobile after the wedding,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler kept house in the
characteristic Southern fashion. Mrs. Chan
dler continued belle of as much conse
quence as before marriage. Young men es-
pecially admired her, and at parties she was
the centre of brilliant throng. Mr. Hol-
brook, her father, died, and left a property
which would have been handsome one if, it
is said, 10 the settling of affairs, much of it
had not been wasted. Still Mrs. Chandler
received pretty sum from the estate; some
st 1t in excellent landed property in New
York. During the interregnum between her
visit to Mobile, before her marriage, and her
marriage to Chandler, Mrs. C.-then Miss
Holbrook-visited Portland, her mothers
old home, renewed many of the old family
acouaintances. and was much admired.
About the beginning of the civil war Mrs.
Chandler made the acquaintance of Captain
Du Barry, of the Confederate Ordnance
Department. He was very handsome man
and an officer with a record for daring. He
paid marked attention to Mrs. Chandler, so
much so that it caused scandal. Then Mr..
Chandler Suddenly fell i'll and died. Of
course these circumstances caused a great
deal of gossip. and. as result, it is said,
Mrs. Chandler moved to Macon, Ca, where
she lived with her two little children, Hol-
brook Chandler and Florence Chandler.
Here Capt Du Barry visited her, and here
not over a year after Chandler's death, she
married him. Chandler had left
her and the children property
which might amount to about $780,
900. Shortly after the wedding Du Bar
~, who was invaded, was sent by the Con-
federate government on a mission to France.
and with his wife-leaving the children with
friends in the South-took passage in a
blockade runner. 1t was said that Du Barry.
two days after the vessel sailed, suddenly
died; more suddenly if anything than Chand-
Ter had before him. Friends of the widow
however declared that it was a fearfully
black and stormy night, under cover of
which Captain and Mrs. Du Barry--the
Captain sick almost unto death-took pass
age in the blockade runner. So limited were
the accommodations that Mrs. Du Barry sat
on the deck supporting her husband. In the
STORM and blackness of night Capt. Du Barry
uieu, MS head resting in his wife's lap, and
sue ala not realize he was dead until the
morning light broke. The widows enemies
SAID the captain offered to put back to port
put Mrs. Du Barry would not let him. Her
trends gay 1t is ridiculous to suppose the
captain would have put back and exposed
cargo and crew to double peril The
steamer kept on and landed the widow al