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Leonard Jerome was born in Pompey in Onondaga County, New York, on November 3, 1817. He was one of nine sons and one daughter born to Aurora (née Murray) Jerome (1785–1867) and Isaac Jerome (1786–1866). Isaac was a descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New
The Jerome Mansion on Madison Avenue, New York City (c. 1878). Jennie [b] Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, [3] the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa (always called Clara [4]), daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner.
The Jerome Mansion was a mansion on the corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park, in the modern NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the home of financier Leonard Jerome , one of the city's richest and most influential men in the middle- to late-19th century. [ 2 ]
Churchill was the son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jeanette Jerome).Lord Randolph Churchill was the son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough and a direct descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; his mother was Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, an English noblewoman of Irish descent.
In 1873, the American financier Leonard Jerome rented Rosetta for the duration of the annual Cowes Week regatta, which he and his daughter Jennie had travelled to spectate. . In a matter of days, she had accepted the proposal of Lord Randolph Churchill in the garden of Rosetta.
The racetrack was built by a group of prominent businessmen from the New York City area who formed the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1879. Led by Leonard Jerome, James R. Keene, and the track's president, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the Club held seasonal race cards at nearby Prospect Park fairgrounds until construction of the new race course was completed.
Clara Clarita was a fast screw steamer originally built as a luxury steam yacht for New York City financier Leonard Jerome (grandfather of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill). On her trial trip, Clara Clarita ' s original engine proved so ineffective it was removed before the vessel entered service and replaced by machinery from a ...
Their father, Leonard Walter Jerome (1817-1891), is a descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New York Colony in 1717. Leonard Jerome, a Wall Street speculator, built a mansion on Madison Avenue and a villa in Newport, Rhode Island. Her spouse is Clarissa Hall (1825-1895).