In 1885, the story of Little Lord Fauntleroy was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine, a popular children’s magazine in the US. The author was Frances Hodgson Burnett, who later wrote The Little Princess and A Secret Garden. Burnett lived for a short time near Eliza Brownlow in Knoxville before she and her […]
Annie Brownlow Patrick’s Wedding Dress
Annie Brownlow Patrick’s wedding dress was donated to the Healy House museum in Leadville, CO, in the early 1960s by my grandmother, Dorothy (Annie’s daughter-in-law). Since then, the Healy House collection was transferred to the general collection of History Colorado (formerly the Colorado Historical Society). By the time the dress got to Denver, they had […]
The Reminiscences of Mary Jane Patrick Birge
In amongst the notes and letters and pictures that my mother has collected about the Patricks and the Brownlows, I found a copy of some reminiscences that Mary Birge wrote down. I don’t know when she wrote it. It came from a granddaughter of Mary’s brother,William Knox Patrick (5). Her father is James Knox Patrick […]
Baby Patrick, the Missing Heiress
As mentioned in the previous post about James and Fannie’s marriage and divorce, the custody court case for Camille took three weeks, 176 witnesses, and 4 days of arguments. It is a sensational story that would fit right in with today’s sensational news coverage. This story had “legs” as the old newspapermen used to say. […]
The Marriage and Divorce of James and Fannie
James McCall Patrick (3) seems to have had the bad luck in the family. His quarry businesses never did well. His mines, except for the Colonel Sellers, never made much money, and even the Colonel Sellers had problems (see Bowman vs Patrick). His marriage was unhappy and ended when his wife died young. His only […]
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