I am visiting Maine this week, and I stopped by to see the graves of Harriet Blaine Beale, Trux’s first wife, her sister Margaret and her husband, Walter Damrosch. They are buried at Ledgelawn Cemetery, maybe about a half mile away from the downtown area. The graves are the first ones you will see once …
Margaret Blaine Damrosch and the Republican Party
I recently found and purchased an old book related to my research. Gretchen Blaine Damrosch Finletter was the daughter of Walter Damrosch, a famous composer, and Margaret Blaine Damrosch. Margaret was the daughter of James G. Blaine, former Secretary of State and Republican nominee for President in 1884, and also the sister of Harriet Blaine …
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Bar Harbor, Maine, 1889
A purpose of this blog is to give me a space to write about topics that are not in my book (still in the works) but are related to it. There are many interesting stories about the families involved in late 19th-century American politics. I previously posted a copy of this photo from the Maine …
The Russian “Flu” and the Blaine Family
We aren’t experiencing anything new with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s happened before. Most don’t realize it or how much better off we still are from people who lived in the past. Take, for example, the Russian “Flu”, then commonly called La Grippe, which swept the world starting in 1889. Last year, Bloomberg Opinion write, Mark …
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Christmas at Decatur House
General Edward Fitzgerald Beale bought Decatur House, an historic home in Washington, D.C. near the White House, just after the Civil War. He and his family entertained people there for years, just as his daughter-in-law Marie would for many years after. A favorite time of year was Christmas. Gerald Eugene Thompson in his dissertation titled …