New-York tribune., 1907-06-28
PRINCE BLUCHER.
His Hers Marriage and His Kins-
folk an 4meric0.

Count Gebhard Biucher is a name which figured
some years ago so conspicuously in the American
press that it may be well to call attention to the
fact that the nObleman Of that name whose on
gagement TO the daughter Of Mr and the Hon
Mrs Stapleton Bretherton, of Rainhiu Lancashire
has just been announced in the English paners is
the eldest son and heir Of the present Prince
Blucher. great-grandson of the famous Prussian
field marshal who helped Wellington 10 win the
Battle of Waterloo, and not the Count C,ebbard
Blucher who emgrated to the United States in
1877.
The latter is the eldest son OF Count I1,6u,ig
Blucher OF the Mecklenburg branch of the family
and disinherited by his father in favor of his
second brother, Count Adolph. Ehockingly mur-
dered by his gardener in 1893 on his Wietzow es-
tate' IN Pomeranla This Count Gebhard Blucher
was graduated from the University of Heidelberg
served in the army during the war of 1870 and
subsequently was in the civil employment of the
government, marrying before the war of 1870 the
only daughter Of the Prussian nCbeman and off,
Ger, colonel won Durre, union which in no
sense oispieasing the members of his family
the best proof thereof being the fact that his
tives took charge of his wife and of her two
daughters after he came this country. 1t was
not, therefore his first marriage. but something
entirely different, which led his father TO disnherit
nm Nor is it necessary to refer here the
OF ms being disinherited and of his emigrating to
the United States, where he has made his home
ever since
Disappointed in his expectations of securing a
Gebhard ultimately enlisted and served two terms.
the first in Battery of the I'd Artillery. and the
discharged with excellent character. the rank
OF sergeant and post schoolmaster, while he draws
10 this day a pension Of $40 month from the
United States government for injuries received.
After his discharge he drifted into hospital nurs
ing. served a nurse in the Homeopathic Hos
pitsl III Washington. at the Presbyterian Hospital
IN New York. and likewise at the Montehore Home
IN New York. Mrs. John A. Logan. to whom he
appealed for assistance endeaVored in vain 10 OBJ
tain position for him conductor for the Pull
man Palace Car COMPANY His first wife died at
Carlsruhe in May, 1891. and in the following year
the count married in New York young Norwe-
gian girl of the name of Ella Olsen Norice, by
whom he has two more daughters. one now four
teen years old and the other twelve. At the time
Of the murder Of Count Adolph Blucher 1t
asserted in the American newspapers that Count
Gebhard had come into the family estates. But
This was not the the property went to
Adolph's younger brothers. Count Ivan Bucher
and Count Werner Blicher. both of whom off,
GERS Of the Prussan army
These Butchers only distantly related to the
princely line founded by the great field marshal
the chief Of which IS the present Prince Butcher
or Aalstadt, whose sons bear the title of count
One or his boys, Ferdinand by name. cast
on by his father and died absolutely destitute in
one Of the most poverty stricken Of immigrant
lodging houses in New York after having been de-
serted-not without good cause-by the Brooklyn
girl whom he had married