Evening star., 1900-07-07
H. H. HacEetty and J. A.. Allen, SO. ST. 4-a
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DEATH OF COL. URaUHART.

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Father of MEr. Potter well-Known
FfKdre IN southern Society.
From the New York Tmes
Col. David @tranhSrt of New Orleans, La.
the father of Mrs James Brown-Potter.
who died at 'ha summer cottage at sarato-
ga yesterday. gas q very weIl-known figure
in southern society. He was about seven
ty years Of age. HIS family. which was one
of the best kpusv7ssin Louisiana, went to
| that state from soueh Carolina shortly AZ
ter its purchase by the United States.
David Granhart. las a young man. was
the son Of very wealthy father. a retired
merchant. ~ss very handsome and had
the advantage. OF European education. He
was considered one Of the best parts in
the American Society" as it was called
creole element He won the hand of the
beautiful Miss Augusta Slocomb, the elder
daughter Of Capt Slocomb, a New Eng
lander. who settled in New Orleans, and
who as a merchant had amassed a very
large fortune. Miss Slocomb was a great
belle In her day. and at one time 1t was
Tumored that she was to have married
George Eustts, the father Of Mrs Thomas
Hitchcock and George and William c.
Eustis. Miss Slocomb, however, married
David Urquhart, and George Eustis the
daughter of Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington
millionaire.
The Urouharts had a sugar plantation
and town house in New Orleans and a
country place at Flat Rock, N. c. They
known at Newport. Mrs. Urquhart was a
cousin of the Palmer and Day and Slack
families Of Stonington Conn., and an aunt
of the Countess di Brazza-
Col. Urquhart served with distinction in
the confederate service during the civil war
After the war he became an incorporation
and president OF savings bank in New Or
leans. He and his family made their resi-
OenCA Qyifh hi fhnr tn
law, Mrs. Slocomb. who was still very
wealthy. In 1876. during a financial panic,
his bank failed, and his entire means and
the fortunes of his wife and mother -in-law
were practically swept away To add to
his troubles. his second daughter, Annie, a
beautiful girl. died suddenly.
II was at this time that Cora Urquhart,
MS eldest daughter, met James Brown Pot
ter In New Orleans. 1t was the winter of
her debut, and she was a very handsome
and attractive girl. inheriting her beauty
short courtship. Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown
Potter were married on the Urquhart plan
tation and came to New York to live. 1t
was the impoverished condition of her faith
or and mother that first inspired Mrs. Pot
ter with the idea of going on the stage
Col. Urquhart approved of his daughter 5
action. and he constituted himself her
champion against the objections Of the Pot
ter family. He and Mrs. Urquhart and
Miss Jennie Urquhart, younger daughter,
came to New York to live. He afterward
went to London with Mrs. Potter and ac-
companied her on her first theatrical tour
In 1880 Miss Jennie Urquhart married
Raoul Duval. brother Of Charles Raoul
Duval who Is well known in the Hemp
stead set Her husband was the son of a
wealthy Frenchman and she has since her
marriage lived abroad. Col and Mrs Ur-
quhart passed some years in California and
afterward went every summer to Saratoga,
stopping In winter in the south. They paid
several visits to their two daughters abroad,
and during the severe illness of Mrs Brown
Potter two years ago lived with her at her
London house and nursed her through 1t.
Col. Crquhart was full of "reminiscences
OF the south and the society of other days.
his favorite theme. however was his
daughter Cora6 Of whom he was extremely
proud He leayes wife, two daughters,
Mrs James Bg9wn Potter and Mrs Raoui
Duval and a son, David Urquhart, who is
IN me vest. he had number Of nieces