- Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (
November 5 ,1830 -September 3 ,1893 ) was a son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte andSusan May Williams .He studied at West Point (Class of 1852) and served in
Texas with the Mounted Rifles. His letters fromFort Inge andFort Ewell have been preserved by theMaryland Historical Society .He resigned from the U.S. Army to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed,
Napoleon III of France . He fought inAlgiers , the Italian campaign, theCrimean War , and theFranco-Prussian War . In 1854, he was made acolonel .In 1871, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the
United States where he marriedCaroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar . They would have two children:
#Louise-Eugénie Bonaparte (1873-1923), married in 1896 CountAdam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld (1864-1944): they have numerous descendants.
#Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1878-1945), married in 1914Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh , daughter of Edward and Emily Pierce ofNewtonville, Massachusetts , and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh ofHewlett, New York : no children.He died in
Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts .External links
*Handbook of Texas|id=BB/fbo11|name=Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jr
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