How did jennie jerome die
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Jennie Jerome
A brunette beauty with bold brows, Jeanette “Jennie” Jerome was born on January 9, 1854, the second child of New Yorkers Leonard Jerome, 36, and his wife Clarissa, 28, at the couple’s four-story brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Of the three girls, it was Jennie who became her father’s favorite, and as a young woman, along with siblings Clarita and Leonie, gained status in high society as the “Dollar Princesses.” Leonard Jerome had become one of New York’s richest residents by engaging in stock speculation, gaining the nickname “King of Wall Street,” and dubbed as “Father of the American Turf” for his horse racing track properties.
The family’s growing fortune afforded the Jeromes relocation to Manhattan’s fashionable Flatiron District, where their dream house became a reality at the corner of 26th Street and Madison Avenue in 1859. Built for a reported $200,000, the six-story Jerome Mansion also included an $80,000 black walnut stable for thoroughbreds, fulfilling a passion for hors
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Jennie Churchill:
Winston’s American Mother
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Synopsis
After a three day romance in 1874, Brooklyn-born Jennie Jerome married into the British aristocracy to become Lady Randolph Churchill. At a time when women were afforded few freedoms she was a cornerstone of high society and a behind-the-scenes political dynamo.
However it was Jennie’s love life that marked her out causing scandal in its day and earning her the epithet ‘more panther than woman.’ She was sexually fearless at a time when women were supposed to be sexually vapid. Yet, in other ways, Jennie was deeply loyal to her husband. When he was dying of syphilis, she took him on a round the world trip to conceal his violence and mania he returned in a straitjacket with only weeks to live.
After Randolph’s death her great project became her son Winston with whom she was entwined in intense mutual dependency. Jennie died suddenly in 1921, after a dramatic fall downstairs, havi
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Churchill, Jennie Jerome (1854–1921)
American-born public figure, wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and mother of Sir Winston S. Churchill, who was influential in Britain's royal and political affairs for an entire generation. Name variations: Jennie Jerome; Lady Jennie Jerome Spencer Churchill; Lady Randolph Churchill; Mrs. George Cornwallis-West. Born Jeanette Jerome on January 9, 1854, in Brooklyn, New York; died on June 29, 1921, in London, England; daughter of Leonard Walter Jerome and Clara (Hall) Jerome; married Lord Randolph Churchill, in 1874; married George Cornwallis-West, in 1900; married Montague Porch, 1918; children: (first marriage) Winston Spencer Churchill (1874–1965); John Strange Churchill (b. 1880).
Mother moved family to Paris (1868); married Lord Randolph Churchill (1874); Lord Randolph died (1895); served as chair and nurse on hospital ship Maine during Anglo-Boer War (1899–1900); founded and edited the Anglo-Saxon Review (1899); published her reminiscences (1908); had two plays produced (1914); served on several hospital boards (1915–19).
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