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Eliza Jumel ( née Bowen; April 2, 1775 – July 16, 1865), also known as Eliza Burr, was a wealthy American socialite. She was married to Aaron Burr and their divorce was finalized on the day of his death.
- Eliza Burr
Elderly and destitute, he returned to New York in 1827, where he had to depend upon his wife’s compassion. In 1832, Stephen Jumel died in an accident, described as having “fallen on his pitchfork” off of a hay wagon. Eliza was suspected as complicit. Stephen Jumel was found dead the next morning, having died from loss of blood.
7. Mai 2024 · Eliza Jumel was a woman who dueled with Aaron Burr, married a French businessman, and became a social leader in New York City. Learn how she rose from a disorderly house in Providence to a 140-acre estate in Washington Heights, and how she faced scandal, divorce, and death in the early republic.
1. Nov. 2015 · With this book, author Margaret A. Oppenheimer draws from archival documents and court filings, many untouched since the 1800s, to tell the true and full story of Eliza Jumel.
Margaret A. Oppenheimer, The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic. Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 2016, 358 pages. “In Eliza’s worldview, what you had done in the past matered litle; what matered was what you could persuade people to believe” (129).
1. Juni 2001 · Eliza Bowen Jumel (1775–1865) was the first woman in America to form a significant collection of paintings. Lacking female role models, Jumel turned to the Duchesse de Berry and Comtesse Tascher de la Pagerie whom she encountered on her sojourns In France.
- Dianne Sachko Macleod
- 2001
"Eliza Jumel was one of the great horizontals of American history."
