Anna Morton

Anna Livingston Reade Street Morton ( born May 18, 1846 in Poughkeepsie, New York; † August 14, 1918 in Rhinebeck, New York) was the wife of Levi P. Morton, the U.S. vice president under Benjamin Harrison and thereby Second Lady of the United States and the First Lady of New York.

Life

Anna Livingston Reade Street was the daughter of William and Susan Street. William I. Street was a lawyer and brother of the poet Alfred B. Street. Susan Kearney was the cousin of General Phil Kearney. In addition, one was their ancestors Robert Livingston, 1st Lord of Livingston Manor. She attended the Madame Richards ' Select School in New York City.

In 1873 she was in New York, the second wife of Hon Levi Parsons Morton, who was from 1889 to 1893 and Vice President from 1895 to 1897 Governor of New York. The couple had five daughters together. Anna was a wise wife and good hostess, especially after the illness and death of the First Lady Caroline Harrison tuberculosis. You "became the leader of society in Washington, and what there never a more brilliant and popular leader than she. It was her innate graciousness, her innate tact, and her kindness of heart ... which won her admiration and respect of all". In their home, many works of art and a portrait of herself in a chimney red dress from Bonnat were.

In May 1889, she traveled for a nervous breakdown first Paris and then the spas of Karlovy Vary and St. Moritz. they were accompanied by their daughter Edith. Your strained nerves were not temporary. In 1892 it went to Bar Harbor to Dr. S. Mitchell in treatment, who had specialized in the treatment of women with nervous disorders. His patients had to lie in a darkened room and were cared for by nurses, without any suggestion, books, writing, or get up.

Anna Livingston Street Morton died of a heart ailment at the age of 72 years. She was buried in Rhinebeck Cemetery, Rhinebeck, New York.

Children

Anna had with her husband, five daughters, one son died in as an infant:

• Edith Livingston ( born June 20, 1874) ∞ 1900 William Corcoran Eustis of Washington
• Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1903)
• Helen Stuyvesant Morton ( born August 2, 1876) ∞ 1901 Boson duc de Talleyrand ( 1867-1952 ), were divorced
• Son (1877-1878)
• Alice Morton ( born March 23, 1879) ∞ 1902 Winthrop Rutherfurd
• Mary Morton ( born June 11, 1881)