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Charlotte Augusta Southwick Waddell ~ 1891
Charlotte Augusta Southwick was the daughter of Jonathan
Southwick a successful merchant of New York City. She is
descended from some of the distinguished families of the early
period of Colonial history, the Washingtons and Elys. Richard
Ely came to America in 1660. John Ely was a colonel in the
Revolutionary Army and a celebrated physician. In 1770 he
commanded Fort Trumbull, having raised and equipped his regiment
at his own expense. The eldest son of John and Sarah Worthington
was Worthington Ely, the grand-father of Charlotte Southwick.
His wife was Miss Bushnell, of Connecticut. Their youngest
daughter, Lucretia, was the mother of Charlotte Augusta
Southwick, afterward Mrs. Coventry Waddell.
Soon after leaving school Miss Southwick married Mr. McMurray
who lived but a few months, and later she married Mr. William
Coventry Waddell, who was connected with some of the noble
families of England. Mr. Waddell held many important trusts
under the government and was at the time of their marriage, in
an official position. Their residence was at the comer of Fifth
Avenue and Forty-Seventh Street, called Murray Hill and occupied
an entire block. Their summers were passed at Saratoga. Mrs.
Waddell's graceful manners, good humor and kindness of heart,
added to her intellectual charms and brilliant conversation gave
her supremacy in the social circles of New York City and at
Saratoga Springs, the fashionable resort of the times.
In the monetary crisis of 1857 Mr. Waddell lost his fortune and
he was compelled to sacrifice his beautiful home on Murray Hill
and they removed to a residence two miles north of Newburg on
the Hudson.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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