The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1890-11-28
MRS. BONANZA MACKAY.
Some Revised Details as TO Her Very In
ter-sting History.

Some Revised Details a TO Her Very In
ter-sting History
Louise Hungerford, with a younger
| sister who is now the Countess of Telf-
ener, the wife Of a Italian Count, left
New York when about twelve years old,
| says the Working Woman. John Hun
| gerford was journeyman barber in New
| York, but enlisted in the Mexican war;
| later he was employed at his trade by
| one George w Ciprico, whose shop in
| San Francisco was known as "Montgom-
| cry baths" and the chair that Jack ii Hun-
| gerford used is pointed out to the GUS
toners of the Ciprico barber shop TO this
day. Mr.. Ciprico advanced $500 in gold to
his employe, who Immediately sent for
| his daughters. When Louise Hungerfo-d
and her sister arrived in San Francisco
they went to the house of Mr.. Ciprico,
who took them into his family, they be-
ing nearly the same age of his own
| daughters. Here they were treated as
members of the family, being taught
Italian and French and music by the
daughters. They lived with their bene-
factors six or seven years.
In 1865 Hungerford opened barber
shop on his own account at Mokelumne
Hill, Cal, and Louise, who was then
about nineteen years old, acted as her
fathers shousekeeper-they having one
room in the rear of the shop. He was
proprietor of but short duration, for he
soon busted" up in business. During
this period DR.. Bryant, who kept a
small drug store at Nevada City, about
one hundred miles from Mokelumnc
Hill, paid attention TO Louise,
and she was married to him after
~
ing man Of dissolute habits. died two
or three years afterward of delirium
tremens, leaving Mrs. Bryant no means
of support for herself and daughter Eva.
new the Princess Colonna. Her fathers
failure in business and her husbands
death compelled her to seek service in
the family of j. w. Walker, brother of
the late eex-GovernorWall1er, of Virginia.
and there she met for the first time J.
w. Maekay, superintendent of the Bull
lion mine at Virginia City, New. Louise
Bryant, for brief time previous to her
going into the service of Mr.. Walker.
had tried hand at keeping boarding
house for the miners.
Mr.. Mackay was comfortably fixed and
could provide her home, such as the
miners used in those days, simply a
cabin Of two rooms. So he courted and
won the Widow Bryant. Her father
in the meantime had gone back TO his
former boss" and procured employment
and helped to pay the youngest daugh-
ter's board. Mrs Mackay was cook and
general housekeeper and Iaundry-wou-.
an, and helped entertain her husbands
co-workers in the mines.
Mr.. Mackay soon after attained great
wealth, and Mrs. Mackay and her sister
had the advantage of common school
education and could speak fluently Ital-
ian and French, through the association
OF the Ciprico family, who were re-
markably well educated-three of the
daughters of Mr.. Ciprico are school
teachers in San Francisco to-day. When
Mrs Mackay, her daughter Eva, and her
ster went abroad, it was 10 get away
from her former associates. When she
returned for the first time to San Fran
cisco she called upon the Ciprico girls.
but from that day to the present she has
ignored her former teachers and bene-
factors.
The people of San Francisco who
know the facts as above stated are fndip-
nant at Mrs. John w. Mackay's ingrati-
tude TO family that had done so much
for her in her early days of poverty and
somewhat adventuresome life.
John Hungerford-now known as Col.
Hungerford of the United States army
was formerly known as ''Jack Hunger
ford, the barber" He was good artist.
and there is no disgrace attached to his
business. Louise earned her daily bread
as boarding-house keeper But the
worst of ingratitude comes in to those
who took care Of her and gave her the
advantages of an early education. This |
we think the worst of crimes.
The above is true history of the
Bonanza Queen of European society.