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Oct 24, 2011 · The breakfast room could accommodate 70 guests and the white-and-gold ballroom boasted two fountains—one spouting champagne and the other cologne. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper noted “The stairways are of oak…The balustrades are massive in proportions, and are capped with a handrail of black walnut.”
Leonard Jerome was born in Pompey in Onondaga County, New York, on November 3, 1817. He was one of nine sons and one daughter born to Aurora ( née Murray) Jerome (1785–1867) and Isaac Jerome (1786–1866). Isaac was a descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New York Colony in 1717.
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Chapter 1. Leonard Jerome might be known to you. He certainly should be, grandfather as he was to one of the most famous men in history. And had but one of the many winds of his life shifted ever so slightly, his name would likely have tripped off nearly every tongue on earth or, conversely, it might have simply fallen like a chewing gum wrapper into a NYC gutter.
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T he Leonard Jerome mansion (right) on the east side of Madison Square Park was one of the city's first landmarks. Designated on November 21, 1965—the same day as the original landmark...
Oct 21, 2020 · Both are named for Leonard Jerome (1817-1891), wealthy financier and horse racing enthusiast. Jerome was born in upstate Onondaga County and after graduating Princeton, became a successful stock speculator, investing in railroads in which Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt was a partner. For a time he resided in Brooklyn, but then built the Jerome ...
Aug 28, 2017 · By Paul J. Taylor. Winston Churchill once observed about a photo of his grandfather Leonard Jerome that he was “very fierce.” “I’m the only tame one they’ve produced,” he said modestly. 1 Jerome, like his grandson, spent a lifetime beating the odds. Despite an historic disdain for hereditary aristocracy, Americans love to create ...
The Jerome Mansion, on the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street, had a six-hundred-seat theatre, a breakfast room which seated seventy people, a ballroom of white and gold with champagne- and cologne-spouting fountains,[4] and a view of Madison Square Park.
