Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-12
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
other Workers Have Left for France-Nancy
Wynne Talks Bit About Grandfathers and
Grandmothers of the Past

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cor news from the travellers.
..o,,e Norris sailed this week. Sophie
,..or is the only daughter Of Mr.
Mrs G. Heide Norris, the latter OF
r,as Bessie Borie, a sister of Mrs
- Ryerson, Mrs. Arthur Rush,
,,o porie and Adolph E. Borie, and
,,.,gbter Of the late John J. Borie' who
brother Of the Adolph e. Borie
served in Grants Cabinet.
a.. Gather is a distinguished lawyer,
:, the late Henry Norris and
A.r ~ of Mrs. Leland Harrison and
~. CHARLES Platt, Jr. Sophie is seeker
.,sr high" art, and is very on very
..,,s.c She is quite some little actress
I, mo tell YOU. and has appeared in a
,hor - of affairs at the Plays and Play
she was the heroine in that famous
r,o which made Alberta Brinton
s,,,r.ni a bride, for twas when rehears.
~ for the Charlotte Cushman Club
..ov,a benefit she met Cesare, and the
,r,sndship ripened into that tickling
.,rsation about the heart" known as
sovae-that is, according to our late la.
rsrted Hughey Dougherty Of minstrel
hme,
soph,e played with Reggy oates, who
a. rou AZ Fort Niagara, and a stunning
,ooking pair they were. Reggy is very
,oodlooking, and had apparently far
mora talent for acting than for war; but
IA "a evidently an all.round person, for he
a. stiu weathering the storm of fierce
hardship in the officers camp up there.
Well. TO return to Sophie, who is the
,ub,ect OF this tale, she sailed this week,
I'D will work in the hospitals in France.
Che Is a proficient French scholar having
,,udled in Paris for several years before
,bs made her debut. The French blood
NJ the Bories seems to have given an
,s,y twist to her tongue Not that the
Hories have lived in France in her gem
,rston, or for that matter, in her
mothers.
Asa matter of fact, Mr.. John ]. Borie,
who was Sophie's great-grandfather,
came here to Philadelphia as quite
Young man. He was a well-known i'm
porter and lived for some time in this
city. He married Miss Sophie Beauveau,
the eldest daughter of Monsieur ana
Madame Pierre Hyacinth Beauveau. Mrs.
Beauveau, her husband having died during
The insurrection of Martinique, had been
Obliged to fly with her five daughters
from that island, not even saving the
one trunk they had managed to pack.
rrsAV n
with what money she had been able TO
bring with her (sewed in her girdle and
IN those Of her elder daughters), opened
small house and served meals TO a num-
Der OF young Frenchmen who were en-
gagged in business in this city.
Among them was Mr.. Borie, who fell
In love with Sophie. Captain Rainoldi
married her daughter Emile a Mr.. Gut
bert married Suzanne and Pierre Louis
Laguerenne married the elder Of the
twins, Eliza. Her sister Maria never mar
red. Mr. Rainoldl and Mr. Guibert were
lost at sea, but the Bories and Lacquer
ennes lived in Philadelphia and brought
I up large families of children, some of
whom are still living in and near the city
Of Brotherly Love.
It's very interesting to follow up these
old families, is it not? For instance
Sophie Norris's grandfather, Mr.. John
Borie, had a sister Emile, who married
General Henry Bohen, who was killed
here in the Civil War Their daughter
Sophie (how the old name is kept in the
farniy) married Baron Halbach, and their
son Adolph, known here as "Taffy," mar.
ried Bertha Krupp, the elder daughter
OF the man who owned the famous gun
works, and she and her sister are now
the Joint owners of the works at Essen,
which report told us several days ago had
rsen injured by our Allies air machines
It's small world, after all, is it not?
And fortunately we are none of us re.
tponsible for our relations. Still, Taffy
mad some head when he married the
richest woman in the world, didn't he?
And then they did not know they were
going to kill so many people, did they?
] hope not.
Another sister of Mr. John Borie, Maria,
married an Englishman, Mr.. Leach, and
.neir children live in England. Emile
Leach married Mr.. James Molesworth, of
bennington, and their son, Jimmie Moles-
worth is In the English army. So you see,
sophie has relations on both sides in
uns terrible conflict. Would it not be
eO'ncidence If she should meet and nurse
~ English cousin, or one of the FIVE
A~oaeh Won Bohlens, for Tafy had four
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