Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-01-03
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wife of our former citizen, Mr.. B. N.
Burlingame, falls heir to 81 100000
In pretty fiat at 1O3 Winchester
avenue lives woman who has just
fallen heir to S1,0OO,OOO. The woman
is Mrs. B. N. Burlingame, and the in
heritance comes from the estate of
Martin Cary of Newport, County
Mayo, on the west coast Of Ireland.
Mrs. Burlingame claims to be related
to most of the great families of Eng
land and Ireland. Her girlhood name
was Blanche Ellen Cary, of the Carys
of Newport, Ireland and Preston, Eng
land. Sir Thomas Upton, she says is
distant relative Of hers, and that she
was entertained by him during his visit
to America last year. The Duke
dArcos also entertained Mrs. Bur-
lingame last fall. The Duke of Man
chester, the Earl of Lucone, the Duke
of Zetland, Lord Aidland of Ashford,
in Ireland, are near relatives. Her
sister Elizabeth is the wife of Sir
Arthur Percy Howard of Preston in
England, a cousin of the Duke of
Norfolk. Her mothers father was the
Earl of Sligo.
Mrs. Burlingame is herself of titled
family, with the right to prefix 'Lady"
to her name. She has not done that
since her boarding school days, when
she was IA.
Mrs. Burlingame is of average height
and proportion, with large, deep
violet eyes, almost black, and
blue-black hair in heavylhalo and
white, almost transparent skin, with
rich carmine cheeks. Her voice is the
well modulated tone ofEurope, beauti-
fled by the soft ascent of Ireland. She
has delicate hands and feet and dig
nitied carriage.
She is an artist of ability, and treas
ures three gold medals for painting
from the schools of Paris and Berlin.
She has been around the world twice.
Her home is hung with pic
lures of her family. Scattered about
are bits of statuary and plants and
flowers. She has heirlooms in large
numbers. One is a thread lace shawl
over $50 years old that once belonged
to a Countess Sligo Another rare
piece of lace is gown that belonged
to the Countess Sligo of the past gen.
Grafton, Mrs. Burlingame's grand
mother. 1t is black Spanish lace and
is trimmed in panels of real jet on
satin. There is a necklace of three
strands of pearls and finely mounted
pin of topaz and violet and amethysts
in the form of pansy with a rose dia-
mond in the centre among the keep
sakes of Mrs. Burlingame.
ROMANCE OF HER LIFE.
Mrs. Burlingame is the only one of her
family living in America. Before her
fifteenth birthday she knew and loved
one who was not favored by her family.
With a determination of first love,
Mrs. Burlingame married the man des-
pite her fathers protests, and left the
hills and lakes of Ireland to come to
the United States. 1t was many years
afterward that her family became rec
onciled to her marriage. She has one
child, boy of fifteen years, Charles.
Martin Cary was an eccentric man, a
philanthropist and a financier. He
left much to charity, besides the mil
lions of dollars which will go to his
eight heirs. The exact amount of his
estate will not be known for ten days
longer, according to the Irish custom
that will is not opened until thirty
days after the death. Martin Cary
was man of title, yet it was never
known outside his circle of friends and
his own county. He preferred to be
plain "Mister' to every one. He
built many schools, churches and hos
pitfalls for the people of his country,
and conducted several commercial
affairs to give them employment.
Mrs. Burlingame says she has become
SO thoroughly Amercanized that she
could never spend all her time in Eng
land and Ireland, and that if the castle
itself has been left, she will continue
to live in Chicago most of the time,
where she has property interests
Hearst's Chicago American.
Deep Mystery.
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