The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-14
OF HIGH LINEAGE.
Romantic Career of Mrs.
DR.. Tolmal1.
WHAT A DEATH REVEALED.
The Niece .of Lord BIantyre Dies
in Obscurity. .*.
MRS. W. E. GLADSTONE HER AUNT
A Descendant of German and English
Nobility Who Was Singular "
Child of Destiny.

Child of Destiny. +. -.
Last Saturday afternoon lady died in
the obscurfty of tenement at 342 Third
street fn=this city with only. her husband
and little boy at her bedside, forgotten by
the world. in which she had once taken d.
most conspicuous part. ~. =. -
And. yet: her career was so romantic that
many of the= interesting stories of fiction
fade in comparison with the wOman's ex-
traordinary history. Lest sheTbe entirely
forgotten the. following notice OF her
death unpublished =:
TOLMANEPassed. into rest. in this city, August
IL, 1894 Marian Won Bowen Cooper beloved
wife of Dr.: George b. Tolman formerly known
as Mrs. -MartLH), daughter OF Sir Oscar Won
Bowen and dys Elizabeth Ann Blantyre, his
wife granddaughter OF: Lord Blantyre, adopted
daughter OF. Sir Ben jamtn and Lady cooper, and
sister of the: present. Sir. Albert; Won Bowen,
native Of London. England, aged 50 years 2
months and 12.days -.
Though:descended from the nobility Of
Germany and England. Mrs. To1man's
life, after leaving the Old World and its:
traditions behind, was most. prolific OF
romantic #incidents and gave her latter
years a remarkable color. She separated
from family and friends, severed all home
ties, and from aristocratic surroundings
turned to the free and democratic society
of Australia, then a comparatively new
colony In j: the south. In these
years she married three times, became
the mother~of twenty children giving birth
TO triplets once and to twins three differ
ent times. And not only in her own life
exclusively was all the interest which goes
to make it. singular in the extreme. Its
most intimate associations. as if guided by
some strange destiny, were for the greater
part historic. Fate or fortune seemed to
throw herin the path of people who at one
time or another cut afsmiliar figure before
the publfc. After all she died without
much of the worlds goods, unknown save
to few close friends.
= Sir Oscar Won Bowen, her father. was
Bavarian Baron, who married Into the
noble:Scotch family of BlantyTe Shortly
after be was bern her father died and Sir
Benjamin and Lady Cooper of Oxford
adopted the baby girl. Lady Cooper was
her aunt, also Blantyre, but because her
mother married the Bavarian nobleman
against Lord BIantyre's wishes. an Egg
glFsh noble being the preferred sutton.
], adv won Bowen was. dlsowned. Then
thechild grew up to womanhood, assuming
the name of her foster parents, while her
mother lived apart from the family, too
proud to seek a Reconciliation.
When, however, the adopted girl had
reached an age. to understand and act for
herself she rejected the family that had so
treated her mother, and Travelled to Aus
tralia She had wealth, strong mind, all
the accomplishments and attractions of
refined lady, and these combined gave her
a high position in the antipodes.
=. 1t was not.lOng before she became the
!. wife OF the Hon. George Taylor, NJ. P,
then a substantial merchant in Melbourne.
Although reared in. luxury and accustomed
.only.t to ariStocraiie life in London, she
quickly developed remarkable business
:. talents and proved more than helpmate
to her husband. It's said she advised him
+. in: all his larger transactions, instructing
him to buy cargoes of merchandise from
England. and giving him capital to operate
largely ON the. exchanges of Melbourne
and London. ~: -.
r. When in the. zenith of his prosperity
Taylor was thrown from his horse and
killed outside the city. He died intestate
and the greater part of his property went
=: to a brother, tbe:two children born as a re-
suit of her union, with Taylor having died
: previous sly =: go ~.
Taylor was the:nan who saved Prince
a rthur from an assassin's DULLES in a u.s.:
3. Iralia, when til a:<P Prince. was attending a
picnic: given in his honor. A man at:
:. tempted TO shoot the. royal visitor; when
: Taylor, W ho:was. one. Of the party attend
i: ing on. the Prince jumped to the rescuef
He threw the 7murderously inclined fellow.
down by the impact ot:his. body, grabbed
the pistol and. saved the Prince. :;For this
he came near losing his. life, as the crowd.
: mistook him for the would be assassin,
and would have fynched him. but for the
timely. interference of officers. T.,
=. AS soon: as. the young no bic woman had
made home ins Melbourne she took hef
mother there. and they lived happily for.
years until the BADLY treated lady died
away from home and family: =. -:
=. Now plain Mrs. Taylor, and a widow,
she met Captain Adam. Meyers in AUS:
tralia and became his wife. Meyers owned
an American merchant vessel which he
navigated in the. Pacific and which came:
.into- notoriety during the War of the
:: Rebellion. Hiss ship. was. overtaken.
on. the high seas. by. the Confederate
man-of-war Alabama and:run down. Mey-:
ers was taken prisoner. and his claim is
still pending among the I'm paid .sAlabama
claims" though. he has been dead for years.
In California Mey ers. was we'll known as.
one of the earliest pioneers, as be made
the State his home. He. brought his wife
from the antipodes to San Francisco, and
uad nil fl.y' for Iror ~
ing him sixteen children, three of whom
were trplets and six twins. =.
Captain Meyers died while officer of
cOasting steamer and was buried in the
sand at Point Conception. Southern Cali
2 fOrnia. about ten years ago. His wife
chartered steamer and went to the lonely