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Portrait of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte

Description

Daguerreotype portrait of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1830-1893), a Baltimore native and soldier in the army of France's Second Republic. The son of Jerome Napoleon "Bo" Bonaparte (1805-1870) and his wife, Susan May Williams (1812-1881), Jerome graduated from West Point Military Academy, but resigned from the Army in 1854 to serve in the army of his cousin, Emperor Napoleon III. He served in the Crimean War, Algeria, the Italian campaign, and the Franco-Prussian War; and returned to the United States following the Siege of Paris. In 1871, Bonaparte married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar (1840-1911), who was the daughter of Samuel Appleton of Boston and the widow of Newbold Edgar of New York. The couple had two children: Louise Eugenie (1873-1923), married Count Adam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld; and Jerome Napoleon Charles (1878-1945), married Blanche Pierce Strebeigh.

Date

undated

Collection Number

CSPH

Dimensions

3 x 4 inches

Object ID

CSPH 294

Resource ID

17637

Digital Publisher

Digital resource provided by the Maryland Center for History and Culture

Rights

This digital image is made available here for private study, scholarship, and research. Commercial and other uses are prohibited without the permission of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. For more information, visit the MCHC’s Reproductions and Permissions web page.