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4 unusual facts about Susan May Williams


Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte

He married Susan May Williams, and it is from them that the American line of the Bonaparte family descended.

Susan May Williams

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (1830-1893), officer in the armies of both the United States and France;

In an attempt to match the railroad heiress's dowry, the groom's maternal grandfather, William Patterson — one of the wealthiest men in Maryland — gave the couple Montrose Mansion as a wedding gift.

In November 1829, Susan became the wife of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte-Patterson (1805–70), son of the King of Westphalia (Napoleon's youngest brother) and his American first wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson.



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