Identifier: daughtersofgeni00part (find matches)
Title: Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Parton, James, 1822-1891
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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years longer, and died December 24, 1807,aged forty-seven years, leaving her daughters and her sonhappily established. An American who visited, twentyyears after, the Chateau of La Grange, Vhich was theabode of General Lafayette during the last forty yearsof his life,, found there a numerous company of herdescendants, a son, two daughters, and twelve grand-children, forming a circle which he described in glowingterms of admiration. The house was full of America.On the walls were portraits of Washington, Franklin,Morris, Adams, Jefferson, and a painting of the siege ofYorktown. Objects brought from America, or receivedthence as gifts, were seen everywhercj and there was oneroom containing nothing but American things, which theGeneral called by the name America. There was anAmerican ice-house in the garden, and groves of Americantrees in the park. It was one of the most estimable andhappy families in France. Alas! that the fond motherand the devoted wife should have been wanting to it.
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BETSEY PATTEliSON. XL. BETSY PATTERSON, OTHERWISE MADAME JEROMEBONAPARTE, OF BALTIMORE. IN the spring of 1766, a poor boy of fourteen, namedWilliam Patterson, from the north of Ireland, landedat Philadelphia. He was the son of a small farmer,a Protestant, one of that conquering Scotch-Irish racewhich has contributed so many distinguished persons tothe history of the United States. The boy obtained aplace in the counting-house of an Irish merchant in Phil-adelphia, and served him with singular diligence andfidelity. He acted upon the principle of making himselfvaluable to his employer. At twenty-one he was in business as a merchant. Whenhe had been established about two years the AmericanRevolution broke out, threatening to put a stop to allbusiness. William Patterson availed himself of the crisisto make his own fortune, and, at the same time, to servehis adopted country. He loaded two small vessels withtobacco, indigo, and other American products, investingin the speculation the whole

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