Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-29
tine Mott. Jr.. the daughter-in-law OF the
famous New York surgeon.

tine Mott. Jr.. the daughter-in-law of the
famous New York surgeon.
SOME ITALIAN MARRIAGES.
now go to Italy for nv next examples.
One of the most recent Instances was the
wedding OF Mr.. Harold w. Pearsall and
the daughter of the Marquis Otigo, King
Humbert's Master of the Horse. Mr.. Pear
SAILS step-father is Count Resse, who re-
sides in a charming villa in the environs of
Florence. His mother, Countess Resse, is
the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Phelps,
of New York, lady of large wealth, and
still larger views on all questions pertain
ing to social progress.
Long years ago the SON of the famous
Colonel Thorn, OF New York, married Mile.
Clotilde Barilf. popular italian prima
donna and halfsister to Madame Adelina
Patti. Mile Betty Rigl, the beautiful vi
ennese danseuse and sister to Miss Emily
Rig1, the actress, became the wife of one of
the sons of Mr.. Thomas Whitney, of Phila-
delphia.
The wives of Messrs. Royal Phelps,
Francis Leland and Henry Heyward, OF
New York, and of Major Rathbone, of Cal
ifornia, United States Consul General in
this city, were Spanish South Americans
Mr.. Frank Chadwick, the Boston painter,
married a Swedish lady artist Messrs
Edgar Rowland and Sanford, Of New York,
and the son Of Bancroft, the historian,
espoused French ladies.
Very few of the female members of Euro
pean aristocracy have taken unto them
selves American husbands, in spite of the
example set them by their brothers and
their sons. But there are some instances of
this kind.
Mr.. Arthur Middleton, of South Caro-
lima, married the Italian Countess Benti-
voglio; Mr.. Abadie, Of Philadelphia, con-
nection Of the Baebe family of that city,
and one Of the descendants of Benjamin
Franklin, while United States Consul at
Venice, wooed and won the Countess Col
orado, the widow OF the former Governor of
Venice. She was formerly the Baroness
Ronsornet. The Marchesa Torrearsa, of
Florence, descendant of the Mediei family,
married Mr.. Walters, an American gentle
man.
ALMOST A DUKE.
The eccentric Duchess Of Montrose, in the
earliest days of her widowhood some As
years ago, came near bestowing her hand on
the Hon. james Buchanan, then Minister
to London. Had this match ever taken
place it would have held high position on
the list of alliances formed by American
gentlemen with European ladies. But for
some unexplained reason the project was
given mp.
The Princess Beatrice, when her sister,
the Princess Louise, was betrothed to the
Marquis of Lorne, is said to have declared
that now there was nothing left for her to
do but to marry Yankeei Possibly she
might have done better as the bride of some
prominent American than as the spouse of
Henry Of Battenberg and sister-in-law to
Mile. Loisinger.
We have few more names to record be-
fore closing this necessarily incomplete
record. Thus, the wife of Mr.. John Van
Der Kamp, of Philadelphia, the mother of
the rising young sculptor of that name, was
an English lady. Mrs. Vail, the mother of
Eugene Vail, the American artist, is by
birth French woman. Mr.. Alfred Robin
son. of New York, married Mile. de Noriega,
who was member of an old Spanish family
that had settled at Santa Barbara.
But, as rule, the history of these inter-
alliances whereinthe husband is an
American and the bride European is hard
to trace, for the simple reason that the wife,
after marriage, assumes her husbands ma
tionality, and is lost to view in the vast
ocean of American citizenship. On the
other hand, when an American girl is mar
ried to titled European, she becomes
prominent social figure; her name is record
ed in the British Peerage or in the Altman
ach de Gotha, and if she is socially ambi-
tious, as is usually the case with the Ameri-
can girls who contract such marriages, she
develops into a society leader. or a least
into star of the society she has been called
upon to adorn. HENRY LA LUBERNE.