The Bonapartes. A Genealogical Portrait
A condensed review traces Napoleon Bonaparte’s siblings and descendants, listing Joseph, Lucien, Marie Anne Elisa, Louis, Letitia Joseph, Caroline, Jerome, and Napoleon Joseph Paul. It tracks titles, marriages, offspring, and how surviving branches—Lucien’s and Jerome’s—shape the current head of the Bonaparte family, with notes on succession and notable connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
United States
Elizabeth Patterson
Baltimore
a. Jerome Napoleon
England
Harvard
Miss Williams
Roxbury
Mass
Jerome Napoleon
West Point
Crimea
Italy
Boston
New York
Charles Jerome
Senate
Napoleon
Westphalia
Miss Watterson
Catherine
Wurtemburgh
b. Jerome Napoleon
Ile
Wurtenburger
Mathilde Letitia Wilhelmine
Anatole Demidof
San Donata
widdow
Paupelin
d. Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul
Prince Napoleon
Clotilde
Victor Emmanuel
Napoleon Victor
Napoleon Louis
Marie
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joseph
Louis
Bonapartes
Lucien
Louis Lucien
Cardinal Bonaparte
elier
Bonaparte
Miss Paterson
France
Colonel Bonaparte
Abducted Girl Reunited After Years in Northwest Romance
Wallace learns his daughter Lillian, taken from Portland eleven years ago at age seven, is living with her mother in Yakima. Now eighteen, she writes seeking reconciliation or alternately to split time between parents. Wallace travels to Yakima. they agree no reunion. The case becomes a notable Portland Northwest tale.
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Joe
Jove
Joe wagon
Nellie
Tom
Mr. Thurston
W. B. Wallace
Portland
Oregon
Wallace
Ife
Lillian
Yakima
Vancouver
Vancover
Porthaid
Northwest
Nevada restaurant tale of a colonel and threats
An Eastern man, visiting a Nevada mining town, asks for beefsteak and mushrooms at a Delmonico style restaurant. The head waiter, also junior proprietor, taunts him with slang, pulls a six shooter, and warns, “Trash is what you’re going to eat,” while the colonel ends up with hash.
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Delmonico's
Nevada
Long ago rail conductor injured in wreck hand buried
G W Nasting, a Delaware railroad conductor, was wounded when a gun discharged during a train wreck. The amputated hand was buried at Dover. Recently Ifasting, a Wilmington resident, reported pain at the buried spot, arranged removal and reburial, and immediately felt relief from the pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Nasting
Delaware railroad
Dover
Ifasting
Wilmington
Ile
Hasting
Old Times and Modern Homes Contrast in American Life
A retrospective look at 1830 living conditions versus contemporary life, noting how houses, furniture, kitchenware, lighting, clocks, pictures, pianos, and books evolved. The piece highlights warmer homes, richer furniture, wider access to timepieces, and vastly larger public libraries compared with fifty years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Jerome Bonaparte letter reveals clash of royal hopes and democratic ideals
Rome January 25 1827 Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte writes of cramped family life in his father's home after years in America. He laments late dining hours and constant company, envies America's freedom, notes vast expenses and debt, and hopes to return home while awaiting news from cousin Charles about finances and America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Bonaparte
Europe
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte
Rome
America
Charles
Would flooding the Sahara chill Europe or save North Africa
A historical debate questions if flooding the Sahara with seawater would flood northern Europe or alter its climate. Experts argue the Atlas range and air currents would prevent significant humidity transfer, while North Africa could gain rainfall and land reclamation through increased evaporation and cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Alps
Denmark
Germany
Sahara
North Africa
Atlas Mountains
Tunis
Mediterranean
Greece
M. de Lesseps
Abau
Kong
Painter's apprentice falls, recovers, muttered strange words
A painter's apprentice fell from a seals fold without a paint pot. He was carried insensible, regained consciousness, and muttered about lying colors. An Irishman in Ballingary joked about a wife locking him out, remarking the key was in the street.
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Ballingary
meeself
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Imperial
Naples
Spain
Count de Survilliers
Bordentown
Mile
Clary
Zenaide
Prince of
Jinino
Charlotte
Canino
Napoleon II
Christine Boyer
fuirkeeper
Prince Maria Gabrieli
Centamori
Christine
Posse
Dudley Coutts Stuart
Marie de Bleschamp
Jeanne
Count Honorati
Valentini
Constance
Wilson
Jardin des Plantes
Paris
Joseph Lucien
Lucien Louis
Pius IX
Napoleon Gregorie
Charles Lucien
Roccagiovine
Primeli
Campelle
Prince Placido Gabriell
andis
London
Antoine
Assembly
Marie Anne Elisa
Baccecchi
orde
Piommbino
Lucca
Tuscany
Napoleone Elisa
Camerata
Prince Imperial
Felice Bacchioch
Napoleon Sr
Hortense Beauharnais
Josephine
Molland
Florence
b. Louis Napoleon
Napoleon III
Eugenie Marie de Montijo
Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph
South Africa
Mane Pauline
General Leclerc
Prince Camillo Borghese
Guastalla
U. Caroline
Murat
Letitia Josephine
Popoli
Louise
Rasponi
Napoleon Achille
Florida
Washington
Tallahassee
Miss Fraser
Bazine
Metz
JTis
Joseph Joachim Napoleon
Webster’s
Worcester
Atlantic Monthly
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