Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-06

differs considerably from most European
alliances.
Mr.. Almerc Pagei. her future husband,
has lived In this country for some time.
residing out West, where he has accumu-
iatcd guile fortune. This, augmented
by the &,0ooo0o his wife will bring him.
VIII place the Pagcis beyond the possioili-
~ OF want.
Miss whi,ney's money comes 10 her
from both her father and mother
ES-secretary Whitney Is many times
a millionaire. and nis late wife, who was
Miss Flora Payne. sister OF Colonel
Payne OF Ohio. was also very wealthy.
Mr.. FACETS bridc-eiect is an unusually
attractive young woman. tall, slender
and graceful. She has a high-hrod, nris-
tocratic face. rather than a pretty one,
and her manner recalls the late Mrs.
Whitncy's charming affability
Miss Whitney Is highly accomplished.
She received most OF her education IN
Germany. and besides being quite Il
llngulst is musician Q considerable abil.
ity.
II custom did not forbid an unmarried
woman using u crest, Miss Garcia LiV-
ingston need not have married to oo-
tain ono. She belongs to the oldest branch
OF the famous Livingston family, which
has a coat-of-arIns, and IL entitled to
sixteen bars on her Colonial Dame badge.
THIS means her lineage Is quite as an
cisnt as that of her husband. Count de
LNngier-Villars
She il somewhat OF the same tyne as
Miss whitney. tail. aristoeratic looking.
rather slender and very fair aud her for
tune IL nearly as larg0-S1. 00l,0E
The Duchess de Dino was Miss Helen
Livingston Simpson. Connected by ties or
blood and marriage with tho best families
OF Now York, she FIRST married MI. Fred
crick Stevens. She had n magnificent
.dnVrv "a part ~ which VIVA Ipltnu DrluTV
the historic estate az Pelham Manor
which she gave her daughter, Miss Daisy
Stevens. when the latter married Mr..
Frederick II. Allen, few ysara ago.
The duchess present husband hal been
married before TO Mrs. curtis also an
American, when he met Mrs stevens at
Newport, He was then tho Marquis de
Talleyrand Porigor1, but a. the first mar
quise. nee Curtis, refused 10 give ny her
title, his father was prevailed upon to
oede to him the title OF Due de Dino,
The duchess fortune II set down at &c.
o00,00o. Her first husband has not remur-
ried. lie resides here in New York with
their son.
THE MARLBOROUGH HOUSE.
The duchess OF Marlborough. who mar
ried Lord William Hereford last winter
fin London, WAS Miss Lillian Price Of
Troy She was one OF tho most beautiful
girls IN the fashionable set. when she be-
came the wife OF tho late Mr., Louis Ham
mersley,
He left her life interest In hla estate.
which is supposed to be worth at least 3d.
0oO,O0. This viii so to th~ son OF MIR j.
Hooker Hammersley, Mr.. Louis Ham
mersley's cousin II he survives ,her. other
wise sho has tho privilege OF willing the
whole amount TO charitable Institutions In
the State OF New York.
The former Mrs. IIammersloy had been
widow
the late George Charles Spencer Churchill.
eighth duke OF Marlborough, on July .,
1873, The marriage was performed at thu,
city han by Mayor Hewitt.
The duke Of Marlborough and his bride
went TO England, whore he spent a small
fortune IN freeing glentcim, the ducal
residence. from membranes. md I'm N
storing II TO something like It's old Rpien-
dor. She continued to live there after tho
dukes death and until his son. by his
former wife, the marchloness OF iIllud-
ford, attained his majority. when sho re-
turned TO him the beautiful home Of the
Churchllg, with all the improvements she
had made to II.
The young duke, who Is soon 10 marry
Miss Confuclo Vanderbilt. was deeply
grateful for this. aud showed hts apprc.
citation Of tho duchess generosity by CIV
ing her away Mt tho altar upon tho oc-
cnsion OF her recent marriage with LORD
william Beresford who is ono Of tho
most popular men in all England ana
an intimate friend OF the Prince OF wsles.
Mrs. Ralph Vivian was Mrs. Marshall
o. Roberts, and before that Miss Susan
Endicott OF Boston.
She met her first husband on the steam
er running from Europe, Their court
ship and marriage was quite romantic,
and whom he died no loft her "a fortune
OF s5,O0o,0to. About three years ago she
married Colonel Ralph Vivian Of Eng
land. and has since resided in London.