Word: eliza
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Merchant Jumel. They slapped their thighs in the Merchants' Exchange; they discussed it in a nervous whisper in the Tontine Coffee House. Merchant Stephen Jumel, the richest man in Manhattan in 1800, had installed one Eliza Bowen in his mansion on Whitehall Street, bought her a fine carriage in which she paraded, the huzzy, to the disgruntlement of other matrons who, though formally wedded, had no carriages. She was a bad one, this Eliza. At 19, she had given birth to a brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance...
President Monroe married Miss Eliza Kortwright of New York. This was his only marriage...
...There were two children of this marriage, Eliza, who married Judge Hay of Virginia, and Maria, who married Samuel L. Gouverneur of New York."-James Monroe by Daniel Coit Gilman...
...Chairman, R. D. A. McKnight, Eliza Bacon; R. W. Heizer, Alice Harris; J. H. Courtney, Frances Courtney; R. F. Murphy, Dorothy Martin; D. H. Courtney...
...Alfred Dolittle, "ruined" and "intimidated" by the change, which introduces to him fifty unsuspected relatives, who "touch" him where he touched others before, in the pocket book, sinks into despair at the loss of his freedom and the good old happy days of "undeserving poverty"; while the other, Eliza, inspired by some sort of ambition to rise, is left stranded in a very different manner...