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Thanks Linda, & Phil......

A bit further information.....

When LBJ was elected to the Senate in 1937.......

he hired his brother Sam Houston as his coffee greeter at $1,740.00 a year paid for by the House Administration .......he found a job for his sister Rebekah at the library of congress ,(she became a researcher ( Path to Power :Caro 81)... His father Sam had died that Oct.at 60 of a heart attack, his mother Rebekah ( also) wanted to keep busy, so she also became involved in research on Texas history which was helpful to LBJ........His three sisters , Josepha, Rebekah & Lucia also worked the phones during his run against Coke Stevens..in 1948......"Box 13"......getting out the vote.....

Sam Houston Johnson , divorced in 1944, had been working in the private industry, but then left to work as a $16,000 a year clerk for LBJ, he had trouble dealing with the tense atmosphere and Lyndon's full routine...He also had a terrible battle with the bottle, but overcame his weakness, entirley....By 1955 he had remarried, and after Lydon's serious heart attack in the same year flew back to the ranch with him....from "Sam Houston's Boy " Steinberg.68..

Sam Houston Johnson

Samuel Houston Johnson (January 31, 1914-December 11, 1978) was the younger brother of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

He was notorious for getting drunk and then talking to the press. Eventually, the Secret Service put him under surveillance. He died of lung cancer at 64, at the same age his brother was at his death. Sam wrote the book My Brother Lyndon after LBJ left the White House.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Johnson"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Johnson

Sam Houston JOHNSON was born in 1914. Parents: Samuel Ealy JOHNSON II and Rebekah BAINES.

Spouse: Albertine SUMMERS. Sam Houston JOHNSON and Albertine SUMMERS were married.

Spouse: Mary MICHELSON. Sam Houston JOHNSON and Mary MICHELSON were married.

Sam wrote a Book in 1969 " My Brother Lyndon " Sam Houston Johnson....available for a penny,plus postage..

Critique :

Of the numerous persons to write books about Lyndon Johnson there is probably none as qualified to do so as Sam Houston Johnson. Sam Houston was LBJ's only brother. He lived with and worked for Johnson off and on for decades. In spite of the author's great admiration for LBJ, he is still willing to write critically of his brother. So this book combines knowledge of its subject matter with objectivity. This combined with a very readable writing style makes this book well worth reading.

This book was written in 1969, the year LBJ left office. According to author Booth Mooney, Johnson viewed this book as a huge betrayal by his younger brother. So much so that LBJ apparently quit talking to Sam Houston. That it caused such a rift is surprising since the book is basically favorable to LBJ. According to Mooney, the two brothers never reconciled before President Johnson's death in 1973.

In this book we see Sam Houston as the easy going prankster. This stands in contrast to the serious Lyndon. Not only did the author live with Lyndon and Lady Bird periodically during the 1940's and 50's but he also lived with them in the White House during much of the Johnson Presidency. So the author can speak authoritatively about not only his brother but many other politicians of that time.

Sam Houston Johnson shows that his brother was a loyal Vice President to John F. Kennedy. Both in public and in private LBJ defended Kennedy in spite of the bad treatment he received from Kennedy's men. And according to the author it was Lyndon who convinced Kennedy to send men to the moon.

The author contends that Secretary of Defense McNamara was two-faced and disloyal. He believes that if Johnson would have dumped McNamara sooner the Vietnam War might have ended much sooner. And LBJ would have been easily reelected in 1968.

The author also criticizes President Nixon. He states that as a candidate Nixon was irresponsible and opportunistic in his comments against Johnson.

http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Lyndon-Sam-H...n/dp/0402123115

Below photo of Lyndon & brother Sam Houston

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The strangest fact I have discovered is that the boy Josefa adopted in 1948--between her divorce from Willard White and her marriage to Rev. James B. Moss in 1955 (same year that Sam Houston Johnson married Mary Michelson Fish in VeraCruz, Mexico) is the following:

Rodney Baines White, who died in 1989 (reportedly from AIDS) was married to a member of European nobility.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p8647.htm

Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger

F, #86470, b. 30 October 1942

Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger|b. 30 Oct 1942|p8647.htm#i86470|Joseph Hopfinger|b. 14 Apr 1905\nd. 23 Aug 1992|p11178.htm#i111772|Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich|b. 10 Aug 1902\nd. 24 Jan 1993|p11178.htm#i111771|||||||Leopold S. Erzherzog von Österreich|b. 15 Oct 1863\nd. 4 Sep 1931|p11176.htm#i111752|Blanca d. C. de Borbón, Infanta d'España|b. 7 Sep 1868\nd. 25 Oct 1949|p10432.htm#i104313|

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Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger was born on 30 October 1942 at New York, U.S.A.. She is the daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich. She married, firstly, Glenn Frederick Richardson on 2 December 1961. She and Glenn Frederick Richardson were divorced in 1966. She married, secondly, Lee Forrester Barr on 2 June 1969 at San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.. She and Lee Forrester Barr were divorced in 1975. She married, thirdly, Dallas Sylvester Langford IV on 26 November 1974 at Austin, Texas, U.S.A.. She married, fourthly, Rodney Baines White on 12 October 1978 at Blanco County, Texas, U.S.A.. She and Rodney Baines White were divorced in June 1986. She married, fifthly, Roger Annen Farris on 16 June 1986. She and Dallas Sylvester Langford IV were divorced before October 1978.

From 2 December 1961, her married name became Richardson. From 2 June 1969, her married name became Barr. From 26 November 1974, her married name became Langford. From 12 October 1978, her married name became White. From 16 June 1986, her married name became Farris.

Children of Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger and Glenn Frederick Richardson

* Timothy Glenn Richardson+ b. 13 Aug 1962

* Tracy Elizabeth Richardson+ b. 1 Sep 1963

Child of Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger and Lee Forrester Barr

* Leigh Stephanie Assunta Barr+ b. 28 Jul 1972

I can find almost nothing about any of these people.

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I just found something in Ancestry.com about the first husband of the woman Rodney married and the father of her two children--or at least the father of that husband, Glenn Frederick Richardson. According to his birth certificate, Albert G. Richardson was his father:

Albert Gerald Richardson was Adopted

Albert G. Richardson was found in a little white lace dress lying by a creek or river in Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas. Grace Pearl Kuykendall/Richardson and her husband, George Frederick Richardson, found him while on a church picnic. He was about two days old. It was rumored that his biological dad was a doctor with the last name of Love, practicing in Ballinger in 1903, the year Albert was born.

Additional information about this story

Location Ballinger, Texas

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* Albert Gerald Richardson (1903 - 1967)

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Glenn Frederick Richardson

M, #86471, b. 23 October 1939

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Glenn Frederick Richardson was born on 23 October 1939 at San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.. He married Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich, on 2 December 1961. He and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger were divorced in 1966.

Children of Glenn Frederick Richardson and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger

* Timothy Glenn Richardson+ b. 13 Aug 1962

* Tracy Elizabeth Richardson+ b. 1 Sep 1963

Lee Forrester Barr

M, #86472

Last Edited=28 May 2005

Lee Forrester Barr married Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich, on 2 June 1969 at San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.. He and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger were divorced in 1975.

Child of Lee Forrester Barr and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger

* Leigh Stephanie Assunta Barr+ b. 28 Jul 1972

Dallas Sylvester Langford IV

M, #86473

Last Edited=28 May 2005

Dallas Sylvester Langford IV married Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich, on 26 November 1974 at Austin, Texas, U.S.A.. He and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger were divorced before October 1978.

Rodney Baines White

M, #86474, b. 14 April 1948, d. 4 February 1989

Last Edited=28 May 2005

Rodney Baines White was born on 14 April 1948 at Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.A.. He married Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich, on 12 October 1978 at Blanco County, Texas, U.S.A.. He and Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger were divorced in June 1986. He died on 4 February 1989 at age 40 at Santa Monica, California, U.S.A..

Reportedly, adopted son of Josefa Johnson, sister of Lyndon Baines Johnson; according to another report, he was the natural son of Sam Houston Johnson, LBJ's brother.

Roger Annen Farris

M, #86475

Last Edited=10 May 2003

Roger Annen Farris married Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, daughter of Joseph Hopfinger and Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich, on 16 June 1986.

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Linda,

Why did you have to go and dig up THAT royal family....??

I am attempting to display the blood ties between Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, one-time spouse of Rodney Baines White,

and ,Maria Christina Erzherzogin von Österreich, wife of Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm, the great-grandson of the half-brother (Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm) of Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten.

Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten's son, was the father of Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten.

Alfred Wilhelm was the father of Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and of Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten.

Otto Viktor's children, Luise Marie Gräfin von Salm-Hoogstraeten, and Henry Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten, were first cousins of..... John Train.

Otto Viktor's brother Ludwig Albrecht 's son, Peter Alfed Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten, is the grandson of John D. Rockefeller's partner,

Henry Huddleston Rogers. Peter Alfed's aunt by marriage was John Train's aunt Maude.

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11155.htm#i111542

Leopold II von Österreich, Holy Roman Emperor

Son=

http://thepeerage.com/p10133.htm#i101329

Josef Anton Joseph Baptist Erzherzog von Österreich

Daughter and son-in-law=

http://thepeerage.com/p10133.htm#i101325

Karl Ferdinand Erzherzog von Österreich

http://thepeerage.com/p10133.htm#i101330

Elizabeth Franziska Maria Erzherzogin von Österreich

Son=

http://thepeerage.com/p11187.htm#i111862

Friedrich Maria Erzherzog von Österreich = Father of Maria Christina Erzherzogin von Österreich

Brother of Josef Anton Joseph Baptist Erzherzog von Österreich=

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11156.htm#i111551

Ferdinando III Erzherzog von Österreich Granduca di Toscana

Son=

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11156.htm#i111556

Leopoldo II Erzherzog von Österreich Granduca di Toscana

Son=

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11078.htm#i110778

Karl Salvator Erzherzog von Österreich

Son=

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11176.htm#i111752

Leopold Salvator Erzherzog von Österreich

Daughter=

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11178.htm#i111771

Assumpta Alice Erzherzogin von Österreich

Daughter=

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Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger

(She married, fourthly, Rodney Baines White on 12 October 1978 at Blanco County, Texas, U.S.A.. She and Rodney Baines White were divorced in June 1986.)

http://www.thepeerage.com/p9688.htm#i96879

Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm

M, #96879, b. 22 November 1762, d. 25 February 1828

Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm|b. 22 Nov 1762\nd. 25 Feb 1828|p9688.htm#i96879|Maximilian Friedrich Ernst Prinz zu Salm-Salm|b. 28 Nov 1732\nd. 14 Sep 1773|p9790.htm#i97891|Marie Luise Eleonore Landgräfin von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rottenburg|b. 18 Apr 1729\nd. 6 Jan 1800|p9790.htm#i97892|Nikolaus L. Prinz zu Salm-Salm|d. 1770|p9790.htm#i97899|Dorothea F. A. Prinzessin zu Salm|b. 21 Jan 1702\nd. 25 Jan 1751|p4614.htm#i46132|||||||

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Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm was born on 22 November 1762. He was the son of Maximilian Friedrich Ernst Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Marie Luise Eleonore Landgräfin von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rottenburg.

He married, firstly, Viktoria Felizitas Prinzessin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort on 31 December 1782 at Püttlingen, England.

Children of Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Viktoria Felizitas Prinzessin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort

* Marie Viktoria Prinzessin zu Salm-Salm b. 1784, d. 1786

* Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm+ b. 17 Mar 1786, d. 2 Aug 1846

He married, thirdly, Catherina Bender on 12 June 1810. He died on 25 February 1828 at age 65.

Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm gained the title of Prinz zu Salm-Salm.

Children of Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Catherina Bender

* Otto Ludwig Oswald Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 30 Aug 1810, d. 11 May 1869

* Eduard August Georg Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 8 Sep 1812, d. 18 May 1886

* Rudolf Hermann Wilhelm Florentin August Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 9 Sep 1817, d. 2 Dec 1869

* Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 3 Sep 1819, d. 2 Apr 1904

* Hermann Johann Ignaz Friedrich Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 13 Jun 1821, d. 24 Sep 1902

http://www.thepeerage.com/p4613.htm#i46123

Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm was born on 17 March 1786 at Senones. He was the son of Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Viktoria Felizitas Prinzessin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. He married Flaminia Rossi on 21 July 1810 at Schloss Napoleonshohe. He died on 2 August 1846 at age 60 at Anhalt.

Children of Flaminia Rossi and Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm

* Alfred Prinz zu Salm-Salm+ b. 27 Dec 1814, d. 5 Oct 1886

* Emil Prinz zu Salm-Salm+ b. 6 Apr 1820, d. 27 Jun 1858

* Felix Prinz zu Salm-Salm b. 25 Dec 1828, d. 18 Aug 1870

http://www.thepeerage.com/p4613.htm#i46121

Alfred Prinz zu Salm-Salm was born on 27 December 1814 at Anhalt. He was the son of Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Flaminia Rossi. He married Auguste Prinzessin von Croÿ, daughter of Ferdinand Victurnien Philippe Prinz von Croÿ and Princesse Constance Anne Louise de Croy-Solre, on 13 June 1836 at Roeulx.

Children of Alfred Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Auguste Prinzessin von Croÿ

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# Alfred XII Fürst zu Salm-Salm+ b. 13 Mar 1846, d. 20 Apr 1923

http://www.thepeerage.com/p4612.htm#i46119

Alfred XII Fürst zu Salm-Salm was born on 13 March 1846 at Anhalt. He was the son of Alfred Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Auguste Prinzessin von Croÿ. He married Rosa Gräfin von Lutzow on 18 October 1869.

Children of Alfred XII Fürst zu Salm-Salm and Rosa Gräfin von Lutzow

* Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm+ b. 30 Nov 1871, d. 19 Aug 19161

http://www.thepeerage.com/p11174.htm#i111739

Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm was born on 30 November 1871 at Münster, Westphalen, Germany.2 He was the son of Alfred XII Fürst zu Salm-Salm and Rosa Gräfin von Lutzow.2 He married Maria Christina Erzherzogin von Österreich, daughter of Friedrich Maria Erzherzog von Österreich and Isabelle Hedwig Franziska Natalie Prinzessin von Croÿ, on 10 May 1902 at Vienna, Austria.2 He died on 19 August 1916 at age 44 at Pinsk, killed in action.2

Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm gained the title of Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm.1 He fought in the First World War.

Children of Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm and Maria Christina Erzherzogin von Österreich

* Isabelle Prinzessin zu Salm-Salm+ b. 13 Feb 1903

* Rosemary Friederike Isabella Eleonore Henriette Antonia Prinzessin zu Salm-Salm+ b. 13 Apr 19041

* Nikolaus XIII Fürst zu Salm-Salm+ b. 14 Feb 1906, d. 15 Jan 1988

* Cäcilie Prinzessin zu Salm-Salm+ b. 8 Mar 1911, d. 11 Mar 1991

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Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten

M, #97852, b. 3 September 1819, d. 2 April 1904

Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 3 Sep 1819\nd. 2 Apr 1904|p9786.htm#i97852|Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm|b. 22 Nov 1762\nd. 25 Feb 1828|p9688.htm#i96879|Catherina Bender|b. 19 Jan 1791\nd. 13 Mar 1831|p9689.htm#i96882|Maximilian F. E. Prinz zu Salm-Salm|b. 28 Nov 1732\nd. 14 Sep 1773|p9790.htm#i97891|Marie L. E. Landgräfin von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rottenburg|b. 18 Apr 1729\nd. 6 Jan 1800|p9790.htm#i97892|||||||

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Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten was born on 3 September 1819 at Anhalt. He was the son of Konstantin Alexander Joseph Prinz zu Salm-Salm and Catherina Bender. He married Louise Gräfin von Bohlen on 13 August 1843 at Aurich, Germany. He died on 2 April 1904 at age 84.

Children of Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Louise Gräfin von Bohlen

* Hermann Emil Constantin Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 16 Mar 1844, d. 4 Feb 1905

* Auguste Ottilie Gräfin von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 27 Sep 1845, d. 17 Nov 1928

* Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 9 May 1848, d. 23 Apr 1907

* Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 25 May 1851, d. 17 Jan 1919

http://www.thepeerage.com/p9788.htm#i97872

Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten

M, #97872, b. 25 May 1851, d. 17 January 1919

Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 25 May 1851\nd. 17 Jan 1919|p9788.htm#i97872|Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 3 Sep 1819\nd. 2 Apr 1904|p9786.htm#i97852|Louise Gräfin von Bohlen|b. 21 Feb 1819\nd. 20 Oct 1875|p9786.htm#i97853|Konstantin A. J. Prinz zu Salm-Salm|b. 22 Nov 1762\nd. 25 Feb 1828|p9688.htm#i96879|Catherina Bender|b. 19 Jan 1791\nd. 13 Mar 1831|p9689.htm#i96882|||||||

Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten was born on 25 May 1851. He was the son of Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Louise Gräfin von Bohlen. He married Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger on 26 May 1884 at Reichenau, Germany. He died on 17 January 1919 at age 67 at Vienna, Austria.

Children of Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger

* Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 24 Feb 1885, d. 23 Jul 1944

* Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 25 Aug 1886, d. 1941

* Alfred Ludwig Arthur Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 8 Feb 1888, d. 10 Sep 1946

* Alexander Franz Albrecht Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 24 Jun 1890, d. 24 Jul 1918

http://www.thepeerage.com/p9788.htm

Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger was born on 9 October 1863 at London, England. She married Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten, son of Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Louise Gräfin von Bohlen, on 26 May 1884 at Reichenau, Germany. She died in 1944 at Budapest, Hungary.

Her married name became von Salm-Hoogstraeten.

Children of Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger and Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten

* Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 24 Feb 1885, d. 23 Jul 1944

* Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten+ b. 25 Aug 1886, d. 1941

* Alfred Ludwig Arthur Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 8 Feb 1888, d. 10 Sep 1946

* Alexander Franz Albrecht Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 24 Jun 1890, d. 24 Jul 1918

Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten

M, #97874, b. 24 February 1885, d. 23 July 1944

Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 24 Feb 1885\nd. 23 Jul 1944|p9788.htm#i97874|Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 25 May 1851\nd. 17 Jan 1919|p9788.htm#i97872|Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger|b. 9 Oct 1863\nd. 1944|p9788.htm#i97873|Albrecht F. L. J. Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 3 Sep 1819\nd. 2 Apr 1904|p9786.htm#i97852|Louise Gräfin von Bohlen|b. 21 Feb 1819\nd. 20 Oct 1875|p9786.htm#i97853|||||||

Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten was born on 24 February 1885. He was the son of Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger. He married, firstly, Anne-Marie von Kramsta on 30 June 1909 at Reichenau, Germany. He married, secondly, Millicent Rogers on 8 January 1924. He died on 23 July 1944 at age 59 at Budapest, Hungary.

Child of Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Millicent Rogers

* Peter Alfed Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 27 Sep 1925...

....Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten

M, #97878, b. 25 August 1886, d. 1941

Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 25 Aug 1886\nd. 1941|p9788.htm#i97878|Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 25 May 1851\nd. 17 Jan 1919|p9788.htm#i97872|Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger|b. 9 Oct 1863\nd. 1944|p9788.htm#i97873|Albrecht F. L. J. Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten|b. 3 Sep 1819\nd. 2 Apr 1904|p9786.htm#i97852|Louise Gräfin von Bohlen|b. 21 Feb 1819\nd. 20 Oct 1875|p9786.htm#i97853|||||||

Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten was born on 25 August 1886 at Trautenberg. He was the son of Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Adolfine Baronin von Erlanger. He married Maud Coster on 26 May 1915 at New York, U.S.A.. He died in 1941 at Rapallo, Italy.

Children of Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and Maud Coster

* Luise Marie Gräfin von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 25 Feb 1917, d. 17 Jun 1951

* Henry Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten b. 17 Mar 1919

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Why did you have to go and dig up THAT royal family....??

I am attempting to display the blood ties between Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, one-time spouse of Rodney Baines White, and Maria Christina Erzherzogin von Österreich, wife of Emanuel Alfred Leopold Franz Erbprinz zu Salm-Salm, the great-grandson of the half-brother (Florentin Prinz zu Salm-Salm) of Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten.

Albrecht Friedrich Ludwig Johann Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten's son, was the father of Alfred Wilhelm Karl Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten. Alfred Wilhelm was the father of Otto Viktor Alfred Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten and of Ludwig Albrecht Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten. Otto Viktor's children, Luise Marie Gräfin von Salm-Hoogstraeten, and Henry Alexander Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten, were first cousins of..... John Train.

Otto Viktor's brother Ludwig Albrecht 's son, Peter Alfed Constantin Maria Graf von Salm-Hoogstraeten, is the grandson of John D. Rockefeller's partner, Henry Huddleston Rogers. Peter Alfed's aunt by marriage was John Train's aunt Maude.

Can you find anything about who these real people were and what they were doing? What I'm assuming is that John Train handled their accounts at his investment company, which was given the code name WUSALINE by the CIA. It was this proprietary company for which WUBRINY was an asset. Question is how George de Mohrenschildt and Lee Harvey Oswald fit into that scheme.

http://www.joanmellen.net/truth.html

At his 1976 confirmation hearings for the post of Director of Central Intelligence, a post into which he was elevated by Gerald Ford, Bush denied that he had any prior connection to the CIA. This was a falsehood. At the National Archives, and on the Internet, is a CIA document directed to its clandestine service (Record Number 104-10310-10271) that reveals that when, in the 1950s, Bush founded Zapata Oil, his partner was one Thomas J. Devine, who was not only an oil wildcatter, but a long-time CIA staff employee. Thomas Devine's name does not appear in the original papers of Zapata, but it does in the company Bush created shortly thereafter as “Zapata Offshore.”

This CIA document reveals that Thomas Devine had informed George Bush of a CIA project with the cryptonym WUBRINY/LPDICTUM. It involved CIA proprietary commercial operations in foreign countries. By 1963, Devine had become not a former CIA employee, but ‘a cleared and witting contact” in the investment banking firm which managed the proprietary corporation WUSALINE. WUBRINY involved Haitian operations, in which, the documents reveal, a participant was George de Mohrenschildt, the Dallas CIA handler of – Lee Oswald.

In late April 1963, in Haiti, de Mohrenschildt appeared to discuss investment possibilities. The CIA officer, the author of the document, named only as WUBRINY/1, had no idea of de Mohrenschildt's already long-standing CIA connections, and in particular his role in shepherding Oswald in Dallas. De Mohrenschildt could safely pursue CIA interests in Haiti because it was that month, April 1963, that Lee Oswald, his charge, moved from Texas to New Orleans, on the orders of the CIA, with Oswald reporting to – Hunter Leake.

A May 22, 1963 CIA document has de Mohrenschildt admitting he had “obtained some Texas financial backing” and had visited interested people In Washington regarding the candidacy of one M. Clemard Joseph Charles for President of Haiti, “as soon as Duvalier can be gotten out.” So we are reminded of CIA's efforts to influence the political configurations of other countries – an obvious example is CIA's obliging British Petroleum – for a price – and overthrowing Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, replacing him with the Shah.

To summarize: George Bush is linked in April 1963, seven months before the Kennedy assassination, to a CIA project involving Lee Oswald's handler, Count Sergei Georges de Mohrenschildt through his own CIA partner, Thomas Devine. Bush and Devine later traveled to Vietnam together, a trip for which the Department of Defense issued Devine an interim “Top Secret” clearance. No surprise there: Devine obviously had never left the Agency.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=3

Report written by C. Frank Stone III about a meeting between his contact, WUBRINY/1 and George DeMohrenschildt at the WUSALINE office (Train, Cabot).

This is discussed by Russ Baker beginning on page 103 of Family of Secrets.

On page 106 he indicates WUSALINE was Train, Cabot, and that WUBRINY/1 was Devine. A few days later these men met with Col. Howard Burris "military adviser to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, with the prospect of meeting LBJ himself." The footnote following that sentence (fn 47) appears at page 510 and states:

"When George de Mohrenschildt came to Washington, he was accompanied by his wife Jeanne. LBJ's private secretary at the time of their visit was Marie Fehmer. According to Marie Fehmer's oral history, she was recruited to be Vice President Johnson's secretary in 1962, directly from her college sorority. She claimed not to have known him, to be surprised by the offer, and to be somewhat reluctant to accept it (see Marie Fehmer oral history interview, August 16, 1972, LBJ Library and Museum, Austin, Texas). But she was not unconnected herself. Her father, Ray, worked for D. Harold Byrd's military contracting firm LTV. And her mother, Olga, worked at Nardis Sportswear with Jeanne de Mohrenschildt and Abraham Zapruder. After working for LBJ, Marie Fehmer joined the CIA, where she became one of the top female supervisors; see William Marvin Watson with Sherwin Markman, Chief of Staff: Lyndon Johnson and His Presidency...p. 39."

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Well Linda, I've been able to find a few things about Jonh Train's aunt Maud and here husband Otto, and Otto's brother, Ludwig, married briefly to Millicent Rogers, and about their son, Peter. Maybe we can use these leads to find out more about Josefa Johnson's adopted son's wife, Ms. Hopfinger White.

Train's first cousin, H. Alexander, son of Otto and Maud:

(If he is alive, and I find mention of him on the web in 2006, born in 1919, he is 90 years old:

http://www.kent.planyourlegacy.org/alex.php

H. Alexander Salm ’37

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A native of Tuxedo Park, New York, but with European family ties in Austria, Alex Salm had been studying at the exclusive Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland when, in the spring of 1936, his former roommate Bill Seidler (who had earlier transferred from Le Rosey to Kent as a member of the Class of 1938) invited him for a visit. Thus, Alex found himself enrolled at Kent.

Among his many talents, Alex was already an accomplished flyer when he came to the School. After graduating from Dartmouth he distinguished himself in the Army Air Corps in WWII as a Flight Instructor, ultimately taking command of a B-29 Super Fortress in 44 missions over Japan. Following the war, Alex worked for the Rehabilitation Division of Hilton Hotels and then pursued a career in commercial real estate with Douglas L. Elliman & Co.

Although he spent less than a year and a half at Kent, the School left an indelible impression on Alex’s life. Drawn to Kent’s invigorating rural location; its steady rhythms of work, study, prayer, and play; its no-nonsense, self-help work program which expected the same from each boy and made no distinction among economic backgrounds; and its egalitarian student population, sustained by a unique sliding scale of tuition, Alex developed a self-reliant work ethic that has remained with him to this day.

Mrs. Maud C. Hope [ Married to Lawyer[

- New York Times - Jul 29, 1965

Coster Hope of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., widow of John G. Hope, to Stuyvesant Le Roy French, a lawyer of 196 l.ast 75th Street. I State Supreme Court Justice ..

MISS SALM IS KILLED; Daughter of Count Is Victim of an Accident in …

- New York Times - Jun 20, 1951

Miss Louise Maria Salm of this city and Tuxedo Park, N. Y., a daughter of the late Count Otto Salm-Hoogstraeten and of Mrs. John G. Hope, ...

JOHN GREGORY HOPE; The Husband of Former Maud Coster Dies in …

- New York Times - Apr 11, 1946

John Gregory Hope of 333 East Sixty-eighth Street, a British subject who served in the first World War as a captain in the Royal Air Force, died Tuesday in ...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...4DF405B8188F1D3

OTTO SALM HOOGSTRATEN; Brother of Count Ludwig, Who Married …

- New York Times - Jul 22, 1941

... and two^ children, H. Alexander Salm, who Ms here with his mother, and Louise M. Salm, who is arriving here on Saturday after four years abroad. ...

OTTO SALM HOOGSTRATEN; Brother of Count Ludwig, Who Married Millicent Rogers, Dies

July 22, 1941, Tuesday

Section: OBITUARIES, Page 19, 170 words....

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...4DB405B868FF1D3

COUNTESS WINS DIVORCE.; Former Maud Coster in Reno Lays Cruelty to Salm-Hoogstraeten.

March 8, 1936, Sunday

RENO DIVORCE GIVEN TO WIFE OF COUNT SALM

Chicago Tribune - ProQuest Archiver - Mar 8, 1936

Countess Maud Coster Salm-Hoog- straeten, member of a prominent Ncw York family, obtained an uncontested divorce from Count Otto Salm-Hoog- straeten here ...

Countess Louise Salm's Debut.

- New York Times - Jan 19, 1936

Countess Otto Salm and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ienry Coster gave a reception yesterday at the ColonyI Club to introduce Countess LouiseI Maria Salm, ...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html...FB6678389639EDE

EIGHT LINERS LEAVE FOR EUROPE TODAY; Passenger Lists Swelled by …

New York Times - Oct 21, 1922

Otto Salm and Miss Louise Salm. The President Herding of the UnitecT ' l5tates Lines leaving for Cherbourg an8 Bremen to:lay and the Red Star liner 2 for ...

...and how about a JFK, West Palm Beach, Cassini-Wrightsman, connection, anyone ????

{More info on the family of Ethel C. Jones Taylor on the George DeMohrenschildt thread .....The family is from Louisville, KY and members are close freinds to Will S. Farish III, sometimes described as the "best friend" of GHW Bush.)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=sto...380507691679829

GEM THEFT INQUIRY HUNTS POLICE CHIEF; Tuxedo Park Date Locked Up …

- New York Times - Sep 1, 1951

... awaiting Nassau grand jury action on charges of 'having stolen jewels valued ... Mr. and Mrs. Taylor .had been guests of H. Alex Salm at the Tuxedo Park ...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...783D85F458585F9

Stolen Gems Found in Her Home Link Mrs. Taylor to Another Theft; MRS. TAYLOR'S HOME YIELDS LOST GEMS

August 31, 1951, Friday

MINEOLA, L.I., Aug. 30--A young matron, who had been arrested Tuesday on charges of stealing $10,000 worth of jewelry from a friend, was linked to a second jewel theft today after the police and her husband found in her closet a missing pair of diamond earrings valued at $1,200.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=sto...1&scoring=a

New York Times - Aug 31, 1951

Mrs. Hope, by her first marriage, was the Countess Otto Salm-Hoogstraten. ... TAYLOR S HOME YIELDS LOST GEMS Continued From Page 1 Houston, Tex., ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vIAEA...tolen+gems+salm

Rome News-Tribune - Aug 31, 1951

Probe Widened in Gem Thefts

Mineola, LI

...acting on search warrant, had recovered in the Taylor's New Hyde Park home, a pair of diamond earrings valued at $1200, stolen in a Tuxedo park jewel robbery last July 4.

The earrings he said, have been identified by Mrs. Charlene Wrightsman, daughter of the Texas oil millionaire, as part of $6000 jewelrt taken from her while a house-guest of Mrs. John Gregory Hope at Tuxedo. Mrs. Taylor was also a guest at the time.....

http://books.google.com/books?id=CYwluOC30...;q=&f=false

The road to Dallas: the assassination of John F. Kennedy - Google Books Result

by David E. Kaiser - 2008 - History - 509 pages

Wherever he went, de Mohrenschildt established himself as an extraordinarily ... he became well acquainted with Igor Cassini, brother of the dress designer

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/arts/igo...ml?pagewanted=2

Igor Cassini, Hearst Columnist, Dies at 86

By RICHARD SEVERO

Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2002

....Because of his friendship with Porfirio Rubirosa, an international playboy who had the job of inspecting Dominican embassies, Mr. Cassini had contacts within the Dominican government and said he would have been pleased if Martial could represent it. He always maintained that there was never a contract and that he never received any money from the Dominicans.

In the early 1960's he told Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Joseph Kennedy, father of President John F. Kennedy, that Mr. Rubirosa had told him there were fears of a Castro-inspired coup in Santo Domingo. An alarmed president shortly thereafter dispatched Robert D. Murphy, a business executive who had been an undersecretary of state, on a confidential mission to the Dominican Republic, accompanied by Mr. Cassini, to see if a new Dominican-American relationship could be forged to thwart such a coup.

News of the unusual mission was published, most prominently in the Saturday Evening Post. The goverment was embarassed to be exposed as relying on a gossip columnist to help shape foreign policy. Mr. Cassini was charged with breaking a federal law requiring all agents of foreign governments to be registered. He at first pleaded not guilty but switched his plea to no contest because, he said, he feared the impact of a contested lengthy trial on his brother Oleg's relationship to Mrs. Kennedy.

After his trial and imposition of a $10,000 fine, Mr. Cassini lost his job with Hearst, and Martial lost most of its clients.

Charlene Wrightsman Cassini, then his third wife, took an overdose of sleeping pills soon after and died. The New York Medical Examiner's office listed her death as ''a probable suicide.''

Mr. Cassini was married five times. Austine Byrne McDonnell, who later married William Randolph Hearst Jr., divorced him, as did Elizabeth Darrah Waters. After the third Mrs. Cassini died, he married Nadia Mueller, and that marriage ended in divorce. Then he married Brenda Mitchell, and that marriage also ended in divorce.....

I share Robert’s view that Castro had nothing to do with JFK’s assassination. However, I disagree that JFK did not know about these CIA plots. In fact, there is evidence that suggests that JFK knew about them before he became president.

JFK was a long-term friend of Allen Dulles. In an interview he gave to the John F. Kennedy Library in 1964 Dulles admitted that he and JFK had “fairly continuous” contact throughout the 1950s. They two men met at JFK’s home in Palm Beach. (Dulles stayed with Charles B. Wrightsman, one of JFK’s neighbour).

Another JFK neighbour in Palm Beach was Earl Smith, the US ambassador to Cuba (1957-59). JFK had been having an affair with Earl’s wife, Florence Smith, since 1944 (it was JFK’s longest relationship and lasted until his death). Earl Smith knew about the plots against Castro. So did Dorothy Kilgallen who was the first journalist to write about the Mafia/CIA plots (New York Journal American – 15th September, 1959). Kilgallen was friendly with JFK (they were introduced by Florence – the two women worked together on the New York Journal American in the early 1940s). .....

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...ost&p=19238

Linda, some info on Otto's brother, Ludwig's son, Peter, heir to his mother Millicent Roger's Standard Oil fortune:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&...salm&cf=all

ROGERS $150,000,000 SHARED BY THREE; Colonel's Will Leaves Bulk of …

- New York Times - Aug 1, 1935

SON IS HELD TO $500000 Peter Salm, Son of Millicent Ramos, Will Have Home at Southampton.

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. RIVERHEAD, L.I., July 31. ...

COL. ROGERS' SON IS GIVEN $500,000 FUND IN WILL - Chicago Tribune

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/realesta...emain-open.html

In the Region/Long Island; 500 Acres of Scenic Hamptons Land to …

New York Times - Feb 4, 2001

... removed more than 500 acres in Southampton from the real estate market. ... But the Salm family chose to sell the property for about $25 million to Mr. ...

http://www.turtletrader.com/robins-island.pdf

Bringing Home Bacon -- text only

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View

Dec 13, 2004 ... When North Carolina-born Bacon bought Robins Island in December 1993 .... his brother Zack III, who works at Louis' company, Moore Capital .

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...4DD405B848BF1D3

Nature Conservancy Gaining Ground; Types of Land Sought

By BARBARA DELATINERSpecial to The New York Times

May 19, 1974, Sunday

SOUTHAMPTON - Peter Salm thinks "there is too damn much asphalt and chrome in the world and not enough greenery." Recently, as his contribution to "the battle to keep from sinking into urban sprawl," Mr. Salm who owns a 600-acre farm on Cow Neck in the North Sea section of this town, donated 20 acres to the South Fork-Shelter Island chapter of the Nature Conservancy. ...

April Bridal Set for Peter Salm And Baroness von Furstenberg

- New York Times - Feb 13, 1969

Peter A. Salm, who inherited a Standard Oil fortune created by his greatgrandfather, ... Mr. Salm, whose full name is Peter Alfred Constantin Salm, ...

More Troops Return to East Coast

Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Sep 28, 1945

(A'- Peter Salm, son of Millicent Rogers and Count Ludwig Saim, Inherited $1703685';on his 21st birthday today, as well as the Southampton (N.Y.) mansion of ...

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...788D85F468485F9

CALLS DISTRIBUTION ONLY FARM WORRY; Dr. Nixon Tells Doylestown …

- New York Times - Mar 23, 1942

Among the graduates was Peter Salm, of New York City, valedictorian of his class. Salm, who attended high school in Italy, told the crowd of 1000 men and ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WrcKA...=wed+peter+salm

Count Salm Wants His 14-year Old Son to Support Him .

St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive - Mar 1, 1939

The son is Peter Salm. who at 14 is master of a 2390000 for tune left him by his grandfather the Standard Oil magnate, Henry H. Rogers. Peter was the child ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2gANA...=wed+peter+salm

So we have strong documentation that John Train's aunt Maud Coster Salm Hope, and her son, H. Alexander Salm, (John Train's first cousin....) were personal friends of Charlene Wrightsman, who seems to have been acquainted with George DeMohrenschildt, and was married at the time of her untimely 1963 death, to Russian Igor Cassini.....

The next step is to explore roads that could lead to a connection between the Salms and their distant royal relative who married LBJ's sister's adopted son, allegedly the illegitmate son of LBJ's brother, Sam Houston Johnson.

On edit, this seems up to date, at least as far as recent documentation of the ex-step-children/grandchildren of LBJ's sister's adopted son:

http://almanachdegotha.org/_wsn/page8.html

The Almanach de Gotha 1763-2009

....2e) Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger, b.New York 30 Oct 1942; m.1st 2 Dec 1961 (div 1966) Glenn Frederick Richardson (b.San Antonio 23 Oct 1939); m.2d San Antonio 1 Jun 1969 (div 1975) Lee Forrester Barr (b.9 Jan 1947); m.3d Austin 26 Nov 1974 (div 1975) Dallas Sylvester Langford IV (b.16 May 1942); m.4th Blanco County, Texas 12 Oct 1978 (div) Rodney Baines White (Biloxi, Miss. 14 Apr 1948-Santa Monica, California 4 Feb 1989; reportedly adopted son of Josefa Johnson, sister of Lyndon Baines Johnson; according to another report he was natural son of Sam Houston Johnson, LBJ's brother); m.5th 16 Jun 1986 [1 Jan 1986, per Willis] Roger Allen Farris (b.17 Sep 1943)

1f) Timothy Glenn Richardson, b.San Antonio 13 Aug 1962; m.Bexar Co., Texas 16 Jun 1983 Monica Khan

1g) Mark David Richardson, b.18 Jul 1982

2g) Steven Glenn Richardson, b.San Antonio 9 Aug 1985

2f) Tracy Elizabeth Richardson, b.San Antonio 1 Sep 1963; m.1st Austin 30 Sep 1982 (div 1993) Terence Lee McCarty (b.Atlanta 18 May 1959)

1g) Kyle Lee McCarthy, b.Austin 7 Jan 1983

2g) [by "common-law husband" Michael David White (b.26 Jan 1957)] Wyatt Michael White, b.Austin TX 23 Sep 1990

3f) Leigh Stephanie Assunta Barr, b.Eugene, Oregon 28 Jul 1972...

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Well Linda, I've been able to find a few things about Jonh Train's aunt Maud and here husband Otto, and Otto's brother, Ludwig, married briefly to Millicent Rogers, and about their son, Peter. Maybe we can use these leads to find out more about Josefa Johnson's adopted son's wife, Ms. Hopfinger White.

Train's first cousin, H. Alexander, son of Otto and Maud Salm...

Henry Alexander Salm was a crewman on the 50-foot sloop Angelique, belonging to Charles N. Granville during the 1950's--1954 in Newport, 1957 in the Bahamas and 1958 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil--which are documented.

Bridgeport Post, Nov. 2, 1958: "Mr. Granville... owns his own yacht, the 39-foot "Angelique,'' which he has sailed in several Newport-Bermuda, races, always finishing among the top eight. He is a resident of Wilton, living on Hurlbutt street with his wife Mary and their three children, Charles, 18, Richard, 16 and Judith, 12." Angelique, Inc. was the name of his canned aerosol soap company, for which the yacht was named. Another crew member was James E. Ivins, the father of columnist and author Molly Ivins of Texas.

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F10. Assunta Alice von Habsburg-Lothringen , Archduchess of Austria, * 1902, + 1993, Md. 1939 (div. 1950), Joseph Hopfinger , * 1905, + 1992.

* G1. Maria Teresa Margarita Hopfinger , * 1940, Md.1) 1961 (div. 1967), Edward Joseph Hetsko , Jr., * 1940.

o H1. Edward Joseph Hetsko, III , * 1962, Md. 1989, Laura Ann Bankston , * 1961.

*G2. Juliet Elisabeth Maria Assunta Hopfinger , * 1942, Md.1) 1961 (div. 1966)

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Charleston, W.Va. Gazette -- March 23, 1928

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, March

22.—Mrs. Frederick Martin Davies arrived

from New York this morning

and will be Joined by her daughter,

Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt and Mrs.

Joseph Hoppin of New York later in

the week. Miss Audrey Davies, a

younger daughter will come Saturday

to Join her mother.

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New York Times--11-14-1901

The engagement has been announced In Washington of Miss Dorothy Rockhill, daughter of the Hon. William Woodyilie

Rockhill of Washington, to .Joseph Hoppin of Boston. Miss Rockhill, who has been studying art in Paris for about two years,

returned i three weeks ago from abroad. Her mother was Miss Tyson of Baltimore, a daughter-of Gen. Tyson of Philadelphia.

before her marriage to Mr. Rockhill, and Miss Rockhill was born in China at the time when her father was First Secretary.

to1 the American Legation.' at Peking. She was introduced about four years ago. Her mother died of a fever while Mr. Rockhill

was American. Minister to the Court at Athens. Nearly two years ago /'Mr. Rockhill married for his second wife Miss Edith Perkins of Connecticut. Mr. Hoppin is a son of the late Van Cortlandt Hoppin of Boston, and his mother was a daughter of Joseph Clark. Although wealthy, Mr. Hoppin is a professor in Bryn Mawr, where he owns a handsome residence.

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Includes B&W photo of Josefa and her sister and brothers Sam and Lyndon, and color photo of Rodney as an adult,

along with an account of his life, death and funeral with no mention of his marriage:

http://books.google.com/books?id=TC4EAAAAM...ite&f=false

Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly‎ - Page 94

Magazine - Apr 1989 - v. 17, no. 4

Nearly forty mourners gathered under a green tent to pay their final respects to

forty-year-old Rodney Baines White, the adopted son of Josef a Moss, .

Background on Rodney's former mother-in-law, the Archduchess. Photo of her as young woman on the page at the San Antonio cemetery link:

http://www.royaltyguide.nl/families/habsburg/hbltuscany2.htm

Assunta

1902-1993

child of Leopold Salvator

her grave in the San Fernando Cemetery, San Antonio/Texas.

http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/bibli/M.htm

McIntosh, David. “The Archduchess from Texas: A Collection of Memoirs by Victoria McCraken, Granddaughter of Archduchess Assunta of Austria-Tuscany.” European Royal History Journal 7.2 (April 2004), 36-37.

http://www.eurohistory.com/main.php?process=1-7

ERHJ XXXVIII: April 2004

10- The Archduchess from Texas: Archduchess Assunta of Austria-Tuscany

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Title: Re: Archduchess Assunta of Austria

Post by: Svetabel on October 14, 2007, 01:29:56 AM

Some info from the wonderful book by David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" :

"Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993."

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Bertita Harding--The Lost Waltz

CHARLESTON D A I L Y M A I L . S A T U R D A Y E V E N I N G , M A R C H 2 3 , 1946

Author Faces Damage Action

INDIANAPOLIS <AP>. — A suit filed in federal district court in the name of Assunta de Hapsburg Bourbon Hopfinger asks $100,000

damages from Bertita Harding on the allegation that Miss Harding's book, "Lost Waltz," depicts the plaintiff as a "queer, eccentric and immoral person." The "Lost Waltz" is written around the life of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, a nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph. The book says Mrs. Hopfinger is the daughter of the archduke.

Sunday Feb. 3,1957 Anniston, Alabama Star

Books About Otto

Since Archduke Otto's visit to Anniston has created so much interest in him and his family some books have been called for which

give background to his life. The Hapsburg name came from the family castle in Switzerland, built in the llth century by Werner

Bishop of Strassburg. Its name was Habichtsburg, which means Hawk's Castle." The first member of the family to become a ruler

was Rudolph who was elected Holy Roman emperor in 1213.

The last of the family to hold a throne was Charles I, who gave up his title at the end of World War I. Archduke Otto, his son, made efforts during World War II to get back the throne.

Bertita Harding, an American biographer, has written a number of books on the Hapsburgs.

From childhood her imagination was captured by the tragic story of the Hapsburg dynasty. Her grandmother and former ladies

in waiting of the court told her stories of the royalty. Her books are the result of this keen interest and years of research.

"Golden Fleece" is the dramatic retelling of the life story of Franz Joseph and Elizabeth. This book opens with the pre-wedding

activities of the Emperor and his beautiful bride, and closes with his death. "Phantom Crown" is the chronicle of Napoleon III's attempt to rule Mexico through the agency of Archduke Maximillian, brother of Franz-Joseph. The first part of the book deals with his early life and marriage to Carlotta and with Napoleon's political plottings. The book ends w i t h Maximlllian's disastrous reign and fall, his death and Carlotta's return to Europe.

The story of Archduke Otto's father and mother, Karl and Zita, is told in Miss Harding'g book "Imperial Twilight" The deeply human qualities of these two are pictured In a most interesting fashion. Theirs Is the story of heroic frustration and the author very dramatically pictures their plight.

"The Lost Waltz" is the story of Archduke Leopold Salvatore. At the close of World War I the family fled to Spain, the native land

of the Archduke's wife. They lived here until the Spanish Civil War. This branch of the family had its ups and downs too. The genealogy of the Hamburg family is charted In this volume.

Tipton Daily Tribune - March 7, 1945, Tipton, Indiana

"The Lost Waltz" Is Reviewed At Art Association Meeting

Mrs. Vesta Larmore presided as the program chairman. She mentioned the fact that the book chosen for this March program, "The Lost Waltz," had recently been added to the list of best seller 'books.

Mrs. Larmore then presented Mrs. Carl Graf who gave the life of the author, Bertita Harding. She is a most fascinating person with an exceptional gift of association, and because of her own personal background and travels, as an impressario she has found just the right manner to present the historical Hapsburg aristocrats to the modern public.

Book Is Reviewed

Mrs. Robert Nichols was then introduced, and she gave the review of the book "The Lost Waltz" which is probably one of the last Hapsburg excursion's. It is a memoir of the family of the Archduke Leopold Salvalor, of Austria, nephew of the Emporer 'Franz Joseph, who married the Infanta Blanca of Castile, daughter of the pretender to the Spanish throne. The Infanta Blanca was a tempestuous artistocrat," a brilliant woman, who had also the rare gift of common sense, and believed firmly in the institution of

motherhood, 'presenting the Archduke with ten handsome, healthy children. This story, "The Lost Waltz" began in November: 1918 at the time of the Armistice at the end of World War I, -and continued to March 1944. It is the story of exile of the Hapsburg family from their home in Vienna, the gay prewar capital of Austria, [and they crowded -a variety of topsey-turvey activities and romantic excitements into their years in Italy, Spain, France, and the New World, and the postwar Austria which was also a foreign country. Their experiences while 'in exile might have been tragic to some, but through sheer force of personality, temperament, ingenuity and curiosity, they-made their own way, steadfastly holding to the humor of their situation, and with all good will accepted the transition from royalty to democracy, and they found in the dance of life, that the waltz did not go on forever.

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Daily Capital News - December 15, 1944, Jefferson City, Missouri

Ten children were born to the Archduke and the Archduchess Infanta of Spain. Of this considerable brood, Franz Joseph, Maria Antonia, and Assunta come to the fore; extraordinary happenings were destined to follow them. The story begins with the end of World War I. Little Frail Joseph returns from the rigorous Boys' Academy of Stella Matuina to find his family in hiding. A mob was marching on his father's castle; the Habsburgs were deposed and hunted. Immediate flight was imperative, and carrying jewels, scraps, of food, and barely a change of clothing, they made their eventful escape to Spain via Trieste and a steaia which was ordered, by wireless, turn back with the fugitives.

Happily ,the captain was carrying contraband and had reasons of his own for ignoring the order. Once admitted to Spain, life for the whole family, accustomed to having things done for them, became a struggle of doing for themselves. How well they took

to it is a tribute to them, makes you feel that exile was a wind that blew good, and furnishes most enjoyable reading. Nostalgia for old Vienna is there, cannot be denied, but, "The waltz did not-go on forever; it faded softly, and was lost . . ."That the waltz ended was perhaps just as well, for the dancers made themselves new and useful lives in a world which would have daunted lesser souls.

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Name: Assunta L Hopfinger

Address: 1038 Fair Av, San Antonio, Texas 78223-0401 (1993)

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Archduchess Assunta of Austria

Prince_Christopher:

Does anyone have any information on the life of Archduchess Assunta of Austria (1902-1993), daughter of Archduke Leopold and Blanca, Infanta of Spain? She was the younger sister of Archduke Anton who married Ileana of Roumania. Assunta married a Dr. Hopfinger and spent most of her life in the United States.

grandduchessella:

In 1946, the Archduchess sued Betina Harding for her portrayal of her as queer, eccentric and immoral in Harding's book The Last Waltz.

MarieCharlotte:

Quote from: José on October 14, 2007, 10:24:00 AM

Are there any pics/photos of the family ?

This wonderful book contains two rare pictures of Assunta as an adult. On the first one she is dressed as a nun and on the second one you can see her with her husband Dr. Joseph Hopfinger with whom she had two daughters.

If you compare her pictures to those of her sisters, Assunta was the most beautiful daughter of Leopold and Blanca.

There are also a lot of family pictures showing the ten children of Leopold Salvator - which means Assunta and her siblings - in earlier years. You could have a look at worldroots for example.

MarieCharlotte:

Quote from: Svetabel on October 14, 2007, 01:29:56 AM

Some info from the wonderful book by David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" :

"Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993."

Some additions:

Assunta entered the convent of the Carmelites of the Holy Teresa in Tortosa which is in the southwest of Barcelona in 1924. She stayed there unil the end of 1936 when the nuns had to flee for Roma. Because there were too many nuns in the monasteries, Pope Pius XI. released those who had relatives from their vow.

On 16 (civil) / 17 (religious) September 1939, Assunta married Dr. Joseph Hopfinger in Ouchy in the south of Lausanne (CH). Hopfinger was born on 14 March 1905 as the son of Aron Hopfinger and Sara Rachel Roth.

Their daughters are Maria Teresa (born Barcelona, 12 May 1940) and Juliette Elisabeth (born New York, 30 Oktober 1942). Juliette changed her name "Hopfinger" into "Habsburg-Bourbon".

Assunta and Hopfinger got divorced in San Antonio on 25 July 1950. Assunta didn't marry again and died at Saint Teresa's Academy (San Antonio, Texas) on 24 January 1993. She was 90 years old.

After the divorce, Hopfinger married a woman called Helen N. He also changed his name into Joseph Hoppin, but I don't know when. He died at Charleston (South Carolina) on 23 August 1992 aged 87.

Prince_Christopher:

Quote from: MarieCharlotte on October 17, 2007, 01:59:13 PM

This wonderful book contains two rare pictures of Assunta as an adult.

Forgive me, but two books were mentioned on this thread.

MarieCharlotte, are you referring to The Unknown Hapsburgs or The Last Waltz?

Prince_Christopher:

I wonder what the family situation was like. Anton is the only one of ten siblings who made an illustrious marriage, and wasn't he working at a gas station at some point? Another brother became a factory worker in the US. And it seems I remember reading that Leopold had a grocery store. Were some of the other daughters nuns? Did Assunta keep in touch with her royal relations?

***

MarieCharlotte:

Oh sorry, Prince Christopher! I was refering to The Unknown Hapsburgs - I don't even own the other book! ;-) If you are interested in these two pictures, I can post them, of course.

Britt, I got the information from one of Alois Jahn's books. I think we've talked about them before.

Eurohistory:

Archduchess Assunta's granddaughter wrote a memoir of her grandmother for the EUROPEAN ROYAL HISTORY JOURNAL. It was published by us about 4 years ago...a very nice and touching reminiscence.

Arturo Beeche

Eurohistory:

Signed copies of The Unknown Habsburgs are still available for purchase from eurohistory.com

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Archduchess Assunta of Austria

Prince_Christopher:

Does anyone have any information on the life of Archduchess Assunta of Austria (1902-1993), daughter of Archduke Leopold and Blanca, Infanta of Spain? She was the younger sister of Archduke Anton who married Ileana of Roumania. Assunta married a Dr. Hopfinger and spent most of her life in the United States.

grandduchessella:

In 1946, the Archduchess sued Betina Harding for her portrayal of her as queer, eccentric and immoral in Harding's book The Last Waltz.

MarieCharlotte:

Quote from: José on October 14, 2007, 10:24:00 AM

Are there any pics/photos of the family ?

This wonderful book contains two rare pictures of Assunta as an adult. On the first one she is dressed as a nun and on the second one you can see her with her husband Dr. Joseph Hopfinger with whom she had two daughters.

If you compare her pictures to those of her sisters, Assunta was the most beautiful daughter of Leopold and Blanca.

There are also a lot of family pictures showing the ten children of Leopold Salvator - which means Assunta and her siblings - in earlier years. You could have a look at worldroots for example.

MarieCharlotte:

Quote from: Svetabel on October 14, 2007, 01:29:56 AM

Some info from the wonderful book by David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" :

"Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993."

Some additions:

Assunta entered the convent of the Carmelites of the Holy Teresa in Tortosa which is in the southwest of Barcelona in 1924. She stayed there unil the end of 1936 when the nuns had to flee for Roma. Because there were too many nuns in the monasteries, Pope Pius XI. released those who had relatives from their vow.

On 16 (civil) / 17 (religious) September 1939, Assunta married Dr. Joseph Hopfinger in Ouchy in the south of Lausanne (CH). Hopfinger was born on 14 March 1905 as the son of Aron Hopfinger and Sara Rachel Roth.

Their daughters are Maria Teresa (born Barcelona, 12 May 1940) and Juliette Elisabeth (born New York, 30 Oktober 1942). Juliette changed her name "Hopfinger" into "Habsburg-Bourbon".

Assunta and Hopfinger got divorced in San Antonio on 25 July 1950. Assunta didn't marry again and died at Saint Teresa's Academy (San Antonio, Texas) on 24 January 1993. She was 90 years old.

After the divorce, Hopfinger married a woman called Helen N. He also changed his name into Joseph Hoppin, but I don't know when. He died at Charleston (South Carolina) on 23 August 1992 aged 87.

Prince_Christopher:

Quote from: MarieCharlotte on October 17, 2007, 01:59:13 PM

This wonderful book contains two rare pictures of Assunta as an adult.

Forgive me, but two books were mentioned on this thread.

MarieCharlotte, are you referring to The Unknown Hapsburgs or The Last Waltz?

Prince_Christopher:

I wonder what the family situation was like. Anton is the only one of ten siblings who made an illustrious marriage, and wasn't he working at a gas station at some point? Another brother became a factory worker in the US. And it seems I remember reading that Leopold had a grocery store. Were some of the other daughters nuns? Did Assunta keep in touch with her royal relations?

***

MarieCharlotte:

Oh sorry, Prince Christopher! I was refering to The Unknown Hapsburgs - I don't even own the other book! ;-) If you are interested in these two pictures, I can post them, of course.

Britt, I got the information from one of Alois Jahn's books. I think we've talked about them before.

Eurohistory:

Archduchess Assunta's granddaughter wrote a memoir of her grandmother for the EUROPEAN ROYAL HISTORY JOURNAL. It was published by us about 4 years ago...a very nice and touching reminiscence.

Arturo Beeche

Eurohistory:

Signed copies of The Unknown Habsburgs are still available for purchase from eurohistory.com

I don't know if the info below is on this thread, but it qualifies as at least a factoid.

ALEXANDER, LUCY (MRS.)

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...owRec.do?id=209

Sources: CBS Report with Walter Cronkite, 5/2/70

Mary's Comments: On 11/22/63 she lived in Ft. Worth. She is sister of Lyndon Johnson. She has since moved to Memphis, TN.

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From the Washington Post--Aug. 24, 1916

FORMER MAUD COSTER NOT TO BE RECEIVED AT VIENNA COURT

Many inquiries have reached me with regard to the identity of Count Otto Salm-Hoogstraten, who some months ago married Miss Maud Coster, of New York, daughter of the late Charles Coster, of that city. Mrs. Charles Coster having been Miss Emily Pell. My correspondents point out that his name is not to be found either in that part of the Almanach de Gotha which is devoted to the princes and counts of the mediatized or formerly petty sovereign family of Salm in German nor yet In that green Gotha annual devoted to the enumeration of the counts of Germany and of Austria-Hungary.

Belongs to Belgian Nobility.

This is perfectly correct. The reason for this omission is that, in the first place, the former Maud Coster's husband is not, strictly speaking, a Count Salm. but merely a Count Hoogstraten, of the Belgian nobility, and to the fact that he is descended from a mesalliance and morganatic union on the part of Prince Constantino of Salm-Salm who married in 1810 as his third wife a bourgeois of the name of Catherine Bender. By her he had five sons, who were created counts of Hoogstraten by King Leopold I of Belgium on July 30, 1847. The fourth of these sons. Count Albert Hoogstraten, married the daughter of Charles Count Bohlen. Their son Alfred married Adolphine, daughter of Baron Victor Erlanger, and their son, Otto Count Hoogstraten. but not Count Salm, is the husband of the former Maud Coster.

Count Otto Hoogstraten is therefore handicapped In Austria-Hungary and Germany, from a social point of view, first of all by the morganatic ancestry of his father, by the fact that his mother was an Erlanger, and also by the circumstance that the princes and counts of Salm of the mediatized house of that name, who are very powerful, numerous and influential, resent the action of the Counts Hoogstraten In making use of the name of Salm in conjunction with their Belgian title.

Good Social Position Here.

Here In America the young countess, with her Pell ancestry on her mother's side and her father's honorable Dutch bourgeois origin on the other—the Costers came to this country from Haarlem, In the Netherlands, at the, end of the eighteenth century—has a social position that could not be bettered. On the continent of Europe and in the land of her husband's birth, and of which he still remains a citizen, she would, be a spirited American girl, find herself subjected to many slights and humiliations, among them that of being barred from the

court of Vienna and consequently from the great world of the Austrian capital, for being unable to satisfy the qualifications of eight exclusively noble descents on the father's and on the mother's side without any bourgeois strain, which are exacted as a sine qua non, not only of all Austrian and Hungarian women, hut also of all foreign-born women "who by marrying Austrians and Hungarians become subjects of Emperor Francis Joseph. In fact, Count Otto von Hoogstraten could not do better than to definitely establish his home In the United States and abandon the family property at Trautenberg, near Reichenau, in lower Austria,, to his brother, who left here at the beginning of the present war In order to fight for his country.

One question that has never been answer to my satisfaction deals with the identity of Frank Bender aka Gerry Droller who was in the center of the JM WAVE operation in Miami and in Washington, D.C.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdroller.htm

Gerry Droller was born in Germany in about 1905. Not a great deal is known about his early life but during the Second World War he worked closely with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Marquis in France. ...In 1954 Droller took part in the successful CIA operation to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. Others involved in this project included Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, E. Howard Hunt, David Atlee Phillips...In June 1960, Droller was sent to Miami in order to help overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Adopting the name, Frank Bender, he posed as a wealthy steel tycoon....

(5) Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: The Early Days of the CIA (1995)

The two men chosen by Barnes to act as political officers, charged with setting up the Cuban government-in-exile, were unpromising. Gerry Droller, a German who chain-smoked cheap cigars in closed rooms and dined on liverwurst sandwiches, chose to be a steel tycoon as his cover in Miami; he treated the Cubans like peons and bragged, "I carry the counterrevolution in my checkbook." A former Swiss desk officer, he could not speak a word of Spanish. His sidekick was E. Howard Hunt. After the Guatemala operation Hunt had served as station chief in Uruguay. Told that he was being sent back to Washington, Hunt had enlisted the president of Uruguay to lobby the president of the United States to let him stay on; Eisenhower was embarrassed and Hunt was yanked back from Montevideo. As ever, Hunt had a fertile, if not always practical imagination. One of his schemes, never implemented, was to send a white-painted "flight of truth" on a tour of Latin America bringing a "Billy Graham-type operation the message of Castro's betrayal of the Cuban Revolution."

(6) David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government (1964)

Bender said, "we've got lots to talk about. I am the man in charge of the Cuban case." Bender repeated the explanation that Artime had heard so often: the great company of wealthy people he represented had directed a large part of its money and effort toward the solution of the Cuban problem, and the defeat of communism everywhere. They had nothing to do with the American government, Bender told him, but they did have influence. Then he asked for Artime's thoughts on the future of Cuba....As he left the room, Bender shook hands and said, "Remember, Manolo, I am not a member of the United States government. I have nothing to do with the United States government. I am only working for a powerful company that wants to fight communism."

(8) John Simkin, Gerry Droller, International Education Forum (February, 2005)

Jake Esterline revealed in an interview with Jack Pfeiffer on 10th November, 1975, that Droller upset William Pawley and E. Howard Hunt during the planning for the Bay of Pigs operation. This mainly concerned political issues. Pawley thought it was important to get a right-wing government established in Cuba after the invasion. Droller, on the other hand, wanted people like Manuel Ray to be involved in the new administration (as did JFK). Hunt agreed with Pawley but was Droller’s subordinate and could do nothing about it.

It could be argued that Droller reflected the CIA thinking that encouraged them to initially support Fidel Castro in Cuba. Wisner, Barnes and Bissell held similar views. They believed it was in American interests to establish liberal, reforming governments in Latin America, rather than military dictatorships that were unpopular with the people. They took the view that supporting tyrannical and corrupt dictators was not in the long-term best interests of America.

However, it is possible that there is another explanation for Droller’s behaviour. Is it possible he was a long-time Soviet mole. I say this because of his background. If he fled from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ended up fighting up with the Marquis in France, he almost certainly held left-wing views. It is possible that his views changed after the war. Obviously, he must have given that impression to the CIA otherwise they would not have recruited him.

Luis Aguilar Leon’s report suggests the possibility that Droller was creating disunity in the anti-Castro exile community on purpose. If Droller was a Soviet mole he would have been providing the Soviets (and presumably Castro) with some very important information.

Droller appears to disappear after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Was he sacked for incompetence? Did he flee to the Soviet Union? Or was he dealt with in some other way?

My theory is that U.S. intelligence operations were set up by elected officials with the intent of protecting the American people's interests. However, at the time when FDR set up the OSS and Truman agreed to establish the CIA, there were numerous former members of nobility running around who were angry about their estates having been dispossessed by communists and their titles having been made meaningless. Could the alias "Frank Bender" have been created by one of Droller's wealthy patrons who had managed to inject him into intelligence circles in order to overthrow the philosophy which had deprived them of wealth? Is there a thread running from the persons mentioned in the above 1916 article that ties together this anti-communists with LBJ's siblings--a sister (who married Col. Boris Pash's subordinate, Col. Willard White) and a brother (who for many years took over Lyndon's former role on the staff of Cong. Dick Kleberg of Texas before joining the OSS)--and LBJ's adopted nephew who married a daughter of Archduchess Assunta of Austria (1902-1993), a granddaughter of Grand Duke Leopold II (1797-1870), Tuscany’s last proper Habsburg ruler who was married twice, first in 1817 to Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, who bore him three daughters and who died in 1832. The following year he married Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Sicily, by whom he had 10 children and innumerable grand children and great-grandchildren. Assunta's parents were Leopold Salvator (1863-1931) and Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868-1949).

Some info from David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" :

"Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993."

Some additions:

Assunta entered the covent of the Carmelites of the Holy Teresa in Tortosa which is in the southwest of Barcelona in 1924. She stayed there unil the end of 1936 when the nuns had to flee for Roma. Because there were to many nuns in the monasteries, Pope Pius XI. released those who had relatives from their vow.

On 16 (civil) / 17 (religious) September 1939, Assunta married Dr. Joseph Hopfinger in Ouchy in the south of Lausanne (CH). Hopfinger was born on 14 March 1905 as the son of Aron Hopfinger and Sara Rachel Roth. Their daughters are Maria Teresa (born Barcelona, 12 May 1940) and Juliette Elisabeth (born New York, 30 Oktober 1942). Juliette changed her name "Hopfinger" into "Habsburg-Bourbon". Assunta and Hopfinger got divorced in San Antonio on 25 July 1950. Assunta didn't marry again and died at Saint Teresa's Academy (San Antonio, Texas) on 24 January 1993. She was 90 years old. After the divorce, Hopfinger married a woman called Helen N. He also changed his name into Joseph Hoppin, but I don't know when. He died at Charleston (South Carolina) on 23 August 1992 aged 87.

Teresian Sisters - St. Teresa Convent

138 Fair Ave. San Antonio, TX 78223-1014

St. Teresa's Academy's address was 4018 S. Presa street, which is at the corner of Presa and Fair Ave.

What's interesting is the rumor I've heard that Hattie Valdez left her fortune upon her death to her only daughter, who was a nun. If Josefa did work for Hattie, and if Hattie's daughter was a nun, there may have been a connection to Josefa's adopted son's marriage to the daughter of a nun. It's all very strange.

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From the Washington Post--Aug. 24, 1916

FORMER MAUD COSTER NOT TO BE RECEIVED AT VIENNA COURT

Many inquiries have reached me with regard to the identity of Count Otto Salm-Hoogstraten, who some months ago married Miss Maud Coster, of New York, daughter of the late Charles Coster, of that city. Mrs. Charles Coster having been Miss Emily Pell. My correspondents point out that his name is not to be found either in that part of the Almanach de Gotha which is devoted to the princes and counts of the mediatized or formerly petty sovereign family of Salm in German nor yet In that green Gotha annual devoted to the enumeration of the counts of Germany and of Austria-Hungary.

Belongs to Belgian Nobility.

This is perfectly correct. The reason for this omission is that, in the first place, the former Maud Coster's husband is not, strictly speaking, a Count Salm. but merely a Count Hoogstraten, of the Belgian nobility, and to the fact that he is descended from a mesalliance and morganatic union on the part of Prince Constantino of Salm-Salm who married in 1810 as his third wife a bourgeois of the name of Catherine Bender. By her he had five sons, who were created counts of Hoogstraten by King Leopold I of Belgium on July 30, 1847. The fourth of these sons. Count Albert Hoogstraten, married the daughter of Charles Count Bohlen. Their son Alfred married Adolphine, daughter of Baron Victor Erlanger, and their son, Otto Count Hoogstraten. but not Count Salm, is the husband of the former Maud Coster.

Count Otto Hoogstraten is therefore handicapped In Austria-Hungary and Germany, from a social point of view, first of all by the morganatic ancestry of his father, by the fact that his mother was an Erlanger, and also by the circumstance that the princes and counts of Salm of the mediatized house of that name, who are very powerful, numerous and influential, resent the action of the Counts Hoogstraten In making use of the name of Salm in conjunction with their Belgian title.

Good Social Position Here.

Here In America the young countess, with her Pell ancestry on her mother's side and her father's honorable Dutch bourgeois origin on the other—the Costers came to this country from Haarlem, In the Netherlands, at the, end of the eighteenth century—has a social position that could not be bettered. On the continent of Europe and in the land of her husband's birth, and of which he still remains a citizen, she would, be a spirited American girl, find herself subjected to many slights and humiliations, among them that of being barred from the

court of Vienna and consequently from the great world of the Austrian capital, for being unable to satisfy the qualifications of eight exclusively noble descents on the father's and on the mother's side without any bourgeois strain, which are exacted as a sine qua non, not only of all Austrian and Hungarian women, hut also of all foreign-born women "who by marrying Austrians and Hungarians become subjects of Emperor Francis Joseph. In fact, Count Otto von Hoogstraten could not do better than to definitely establish his home In the United States and abandon the family property at Trautenberg, near Reichenau, in lower Austria,, to his brother, who left here at the beginning of the present war In order to fight for his country.

One question that has never been answer to my satisfaction deals with the identity of Frank Bender aka Gerry Droller who was in the center of the JM WAVE operation in Miami and in Washington, D.C.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdroller.htm

Gerry Droller was born in Germany in about 1905. Not a great deal is known about his early life but during the Second World War he worked closely with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Marquis in France. ...In 1954 Droller took part in the successful CIA operation to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. Others involved in this project included Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, E. Howard Hunt, David Atlee Phillips...In June 1960, Droller was sent to Miami in order to help overthrow the government of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Adopting the name, Frank Bender, he posed as a wealthy steel tycoon....

(5) Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men: The Early Days of the CIA (1995)

The two men chosen by Barnes to act as political officers, charged with setting up the Cuban government-in-exile, were unpromising. Gerry Droller, a German who chain-smoked cheap cigars in closed rooms and dined on liverwurst sandwiches, chose to be a steel tycoon as his cover in Miami; he treated the Cubans like peons and bragged, "I carry the counterrevolution in my checkbook." A former Swiss desk officer, he could not speak a word of Spanish. His sidekick was E. Howard Hunt. After the Guatemala operation Hunt had served as station chief in Uruguay. Told that he was being sent back to Washington, Hunt had enlisted the president of Uruguay to lobby the president of the United States to let him stay on; Eisenhower was embarrassed and Hunt was yanked back from Montevideo. As ever, Hunt had a fertile, if not always practical imagination. One of his schemes, never implemented, was to send a white-painted "flight of truth" on a tour of Latin America bringing a "Billy Graham-type operation the message of Castro's betrayal of the Cuban Revolution."

(6) David Wise and Thomas B. Ross, The Invisible Government (1964)

Bender said, "we've got lots to talk about. I am the man in charge of the Cuban case." Bender repeated the explanation that Artime had heard so often: the great company of wealthy people he represented had directed a large part of its money and effort toward the solution of the Cuban problem, and the defeat of communism everywhere. They had nothing to do with the American government, Bender told him, but they did have influence. Then he asked for Artime's thoughts on the future of Cuba....As he left the room, Bender shook hands and said, "Remember, Manolo, I am not a member of the United States government. I have nothing to do with the United States government. I am only working for a powerful company that wants to fight communism."

(8) John Simkin, Gerry Droller, International Education Forum (February, 2005)

Jake Esterline revealed in an interview with Jack Pfeiffer on 10th November, 1975, that Droller upset William Pawley and E. Howard Hunt during the planning for the Bay of Pigs operation. This mainly concerned political issues. Pawley thought it was important to get a right-wing government established in Cuba after the invasion. Droller, on the other hand, wanted people like Manuel Ray to be involved in the new administration (as did JFK). Hunt agreed with Pawley but was Droller’s subordinate and could do nothing about it.

It could be argued that Droller reflected the CIA thinking that encouraged them to initially support Fidel Castro in Cuba. Wisner, Barnes and Bissell held similar views. They believed it was in American interests to establish liberal, reforming governments in Latin America, rather than military dictatorships that were unpopular with the people. They took the view that supporting tyrannical and corrupt dictators was not in the long-term best interests of America.

However, it is possible that there is another explanation for Droller’s behaviour. Is it possible he was a long-time Soviet mole. I say this because of his background. If he fled from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ended up fighting up with the Marquis in France, he almost certainly held left-wing views. It is possible that his views changed after the war. Obviously, he must have given that impression to the CIA otherwise they would not have recruited him.

Luis Aguilar Leon’s report suggests the possibility that Droller was creating disunity in the anti-Castro exile community on purpose. If Droller was a Soviet mole he would have been providing the Soviets (and presumably Castro) with some very important information.

Droller appears to disappear after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Was he sacked for incompetence? Did he flee to the Soviet Union? Or was he dealt with in some other way?

My theory is that U.S. intelligence operations were set up by elected officials with the intent of protecting the American people's interests. However, at the time when FDR set up the OSS and Truman agreed to establish the CIA, there were numerous former members of nobility running around who were angry about their estates having been dispossessed by communists and their titles having been made meaningless. Could the alias "Frank Bender" have been created by one of Droller's wealthy patrons who had managed to inject him into intelligence circles in order to overthrow the philosophy which had deprived them of wealth? Is there a thread running from the persons mentioned in the above 1916 article that ties together this anti-communists with LBJ's siblings--a sister (who married Col. Boris Pash's subordinate, Col. Willard White) and a brother (who for many years took over Lyndon's former role on the staff of Cong. Dick Kleberg of Texas before joining the OSS)--and LBJ's adopted nephew who married a daughter of Archduchess Assunta of Austria (1902-1993), a granddaughter of Grand Duke Leopold II (1797-1870), Tuscany’s last proper Habsburg ruler who was married twice, first in 1817 to Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, who bore him three daughters and who died in 1832. The following year he married Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Sicily, by whom he had 10 children and innumerable grand children and great-grandchildren. Assunta's parents were Leopold Salvator (1863-1931) and Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868-1949).

Some info from David McIntosh "The Unkhown Habsburgs" :

"Assunta entered a convent in Barcelona with the intention of becoming a nun, but was forced to flee when the convent was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in 1936...At the age of 37 Assunta married a Doctor, Joseph Hopfinger, who originated from Galicia. He was Jewish and as remaining in Europe at that time was unsafe, they emigrated to the USA. The couple, who had 2 daughters, Maria Teresa and Elisabeth, divorced in 1950. Assunta spent the rest of her life in Texas and died in San Antonio in 1993."

Some additions:

Assunta entered the covent of the Carmelites of the Holy Teresa in Tortosa which is in the southwest of Barcelona in 1924. She stayed there unil the end of 1936 when the nuns had to flee for Roma. Because there were to many nuns in the monasteries, Pope Pius XI. released those who had relatives from their vow.

On 16 (civil) / 17 (religious) September 1939, Assunta married Dr. Joseph Hopfinger in Ouchy in the south of Lausanne (CH). Hopfinger was born on 14 March 1905 as the son of Aron Hopfinger and Sara Rachel Roth. Their daughters are Maria Teresa (born Barcelona, 12 May 1940) and Juliette Elisabeth (born New York, 30 Oktober 1942). Juliette changed her name "Hopfinger" into "Habsburg-Bourbon". Assunta and Hopfinger got divorced in San Antonio on 25 July 1950. Assunta didn't marry again and died at Saint Teresa's Academy (San Antonio, Texas) on 24 January 1993. She was 90 years old. After the divorce, Hopfinger married a woman called Helen N. He also changed his name into Joseph Hoppin, but I don't know when. He died at Charleston (South Carolina) on 23 August 1992 aged 87.

Teresian Sisters - St. Teresa Convent

138 Fair Ave. San Antonio, TX 78223-1014

St. Teresa's Academy's address was 4018 S. Presa street, which is at the corner of Presa and Fair Ave.

What's interesting is the rumor I've heard that Hattie Valdez left her fortune upon her death to her only daughter, who was a nun. If Josefa did work for Hattie, and if Hattie's daughter was a nun, there may have been a connection to Josefa's adopted son's marriage to the daughter of a nun. It's all very strange.

There are two sources of information that are fairly obscure regarding the subject matter, both fairly important.

One is about ranches and is incredibly informative.

The book is entitled

Dining With The Cattle Barons Yesterday and Today - Sarah Morgan Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 81-50855

Published by Texian Press Waco, Texas.

The other is The Elite Serial Killers of JFK, RFK and MLK by Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.

The former contains information on the following ranches.

Lem Allen

J.P. Morris

Brummett's 3B Ranch

Bob Green

Halsell's Farias Ranch [area near Eagle Pass....]

JAL Ranch - carried the brand of Jess A. Lynch [weird anomaly Jess Willard Lynch?]

The King Ranch

Lambshead

LBJ Ranch

Matador [Henry and Lizzie Campbell]

Pitchfork

Pritchard see XIT Ranch

Reynold's X see Reynolds Cattle Co.

Santa Rosa

Swenson

Thistle Hill

Certain obscurities that intertwine the JFK assassination regard cattle breeding, when Thomas Eli Davis was arrested in Morocco, his activities or cover were alleged to have been dealing with cattle breeding besides the fact that he had documentation or papers mentioning Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby, see my posts on the QJWIN thread for more information.

Also, there was a The Winfield Scott Ranch which covered over 12000 acres in Tarrant, County. I am not sure if this is mentioned in Sarah's book.

Ross Gaylon's book contains details regarding Josefa Johnson.

Disclaimer: Historians and or concerned persons, should not draw the inference that these persons were involved in political skullduggery of the 1960's....

Oh, and regarding Gerry Droller, it seems he found time to make a trip to the Dallas area as described in the following document......

GERRY DROLLER MEETING W/MIRO CARDONA AT MARRIOT HOTEL, ARLINGTON

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1

I'm sure Linda and Tom might agree that, in a backasswards way this get together seems evocative of the "alleged" meeting between "Maurice Bishop," and Antonio Viciana, although this meeting is in May 1961, nothing sinister, but noteworthy......

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What are the random odds that when Thomas J. Devine met with George DeMohrenschildt in New York in 1963, that DeMohrenschildt would be "connected" to Devine's former petroleum exploration partner and alleged fellow CIA asset, George HW Bush, and that DeMohrenschildt's best man in his 1943 wedding to Dorothy Pierson, a man named Baron Sten Goddert Wrede, would be "connected" to cousins of Devine's boss, John Train?

(See details in prior posts on this page, and in the following article excerpts.)

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=rome...s&scoring=a

DOROTHY R. PIERSON BECOMES BRIDE HERE; Wed to Geo. de …

- New York Times - Jun 17, 1943

Miss Dorothy Romeyn Pierson, daughter of Mrs. Lorenzo Cantagalli, now residing ... Dimitri S, de of 950 Park Avenue, and Baron Geddard Wrede of Washington....

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=cart...&lnav=hist3

Meat 10 Be Weekly .

Palm Beach Post - Google News Archive - Apr 19, 1943

... Aubrey Cartwright was hostess. Mrs. Cartwright and her guest Mrs. Alva See, return to New York Wednesday. ... Baron Goddert Wrede, Reynaldo Luza, Morin Hare. ...

Related web pages

HOLIDAYS STEP UP PACE FOR PALM BEACH COLONY .

Miami News - Google News Archive - Dec 19, 1948

Aubrey Cartwright, . back at Estella after the sum mer at her villa at Cap d' Antibes, gave a dinner for her guest, Baron Wrede, the Finnish diplomat. .

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...4D0405B8689F1D3

MRS. CARTWRIGHT, OIL HEIRESS, DIES; Grandchild of H.H. Rogers, Co-Founder of Standard, Succumbs in France

August 27, 1956, Monday

Mrs. Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright, an heiress who was prominent in society in this country and abroad, died Saturday at her villa in Cap d'Antibes, France, after a long illness. Her New York home was at 820 Fifth Avenue.

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=Mrs....s&scoring=a

… , OIL HEIRESS, DIES; Grandchild of HH Rogers, Co-Founder of...

$3.95 - New York Times - Aug 27, 1956

... died Saturday at her villa in Cap d'Antibes, France, after a long illness. ... William Evarts Benjamin and a granddaughter of the late H. H, Rogers, ...

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=beat...les+cartwright+

… ANNOUNCED OF MRS. CARTWRIGHT; Granddaughter of Late Henry H. …

$3.95 - New York Times - May 30, 1940

Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright, daughter of 'the late Mr. and. ... Captain Charles Aubrey Cartwright of the British Navy was the former Miss Benjamin's third ,,,,,

.
http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=*bor...s&scoring=a

Angela Atwell Weds Quietly at St. Patrick's

Pay-Per-View - Chicago Tribune - ProQuest Archiver - Mar 13, 1932

Mrs. Cnrtwright Is the former Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt, born Beatrice Benjamin, daugh- ter of the William Evarts Benjamins,

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=*For...s&scoring=a

COL. ROGERS WEDS MRS. BASIL MILES; Paris Ceremony Uniting …

- New York Times - Jul 17, 1929

The marriage of Mrs. Basil Miles and Colonel Henry H. Rogers of New York took place at 11:30 A.M. today in the City Hall of the fashionable Sixteenth .

For Colonel Ropers the witnesses were his nephew, Captaln Charles Cartwright, and Mra Gordon Leith, who was proxy for Colonel Gordon Leith. The religious ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Verne at the Protestant Church of Saint Germain, immediately after the civil marriage. Mrs. Miles was given in marriage by her cousin, Count Andre Zichy. Count and Countess Zichy were the only persons present besides the witnesses. The ceremony took place in the strictest . Colonel and MTR. Ropers left for an extended motor trip. The bride of Colonel Ropers, a Standard Oil notable, recently divorced by his wife in Utrecht,

Mrs. Rogers'and Mrs. Mile's 'were seen together in Paris as late as July 13, when. they declined

to confirm the report that the s divorced husband intended to marry;the latter :' '' ' . ' : ' -- '

Much ,secrecy surrounded Mrs. Rogers's divorce.

Wliea slie established a residence on the Avenue Montaigne,

just off the Avenue des Champs Elysees, last May it was believed it was preparatory to petitioning the Paris courts. for a divorce.

Less than a week ago the first word came that she 'had obtained an absolute divorce in Utrecht.

The first Mrs. Rogers was Mary Benjamin, a member of one of New York's oldest families.

She married Mr: Rogers in 1900, when he was 21 and a junior at Columbia University.

They are the parents of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos, w hose marriage as Millicent Rogers to Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten in January, 1924, aroused much interest.

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=mill...s&scoring=a

COUNTESS SALM TO RETURN; Former Millicent Rogers Books Passage …

- New York Times - Aug 11, 1927

Countess Salm, the former Millicent Rogers, and Arturo Peralta Ramos of Argentina , to whom she is engaged, have each booked passage on the steamship Olympic, ...

Countess Salm And Her Fiance To Sail Aug. 17 . - Evening Independent - Google News Archive

Millicent Rogers Is Engaged to AP Ramos, Parents... - New York Times

Condensed version:

Henry Huddleston Rogers, business partner of John D. Rockefeller, died in 1909.

His son, Col. Henry H. Rogers, described above, was the father of Millicent Rogers, who married Ludwig Salm and

had a child with him in 1925. That child was the first cousin of the children of John Train's aunt Maude, who had married Ludwig Salm's brother.

The sister of Col. Henry H. Rogers, aunt of his daughter, Millicent, was Anne Engle Rogers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Benjamin

William Evarts Benjamin married Anne Engle Rogers, eldest daughter of Abbie Palmer (née Gifford) Rogers and Henry Huttleston Rogers, an industrialist millionaire who was a principal of Standard Oil. They had 2 children, Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright and Henry Rogers Benjamin.

Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright was the gracious hostess, described in articles from 1943 and 1948, displayed above,

of Baron Sten Goddert Wrede, who served as George DeMohrenchildt's best man in 1943.

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What are the random odds that when Thomas J. Devine met with George DeMohrenschildt in New York in 1963, that DeMohrenschildt would be "connected" to Devine's former petroleum exploration partner and alleged fellow CIA asset, George HW Bush, and that DeMohrenschildt's best man in his 1943 wedding to Dorothy Pierson, a man named Baron Sten Goddert Wrede, would be "connected" to cousins of Devine's boss, John Train?

(See details in prior posts on this page, and in the following article excerpts.)

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=rome...s&scoring=a

DOROTHY R. PIERSON BECOMES BRIDE HERE; Wed to Geo. de …

- New York Times - Jun 17, 1943

Miss Dorothy Romeyn Pierson, daughter of Mrs. Lorenzo Cantagalli, now residing ... Dimitri S, de of 950 Park Avenue, and Baron Geddard Wrede of Washington....

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=cart...&lnav=hist3

Meat 10 Be Weekly .

Palm Beach Post - Google News Archive - Apr 19, 1943

... Aubrey Cartwright was hostess. Mrs. Cartwright and her guest Mrs. Alva See, return to New York Wednesday. ... Baron Goddert Wrede, Reynaldo Luza, Morin Hare. ...

Related web pages

HOLIDAYS STEP UP PACE FOR PALM BEACH COLONY .

Miami News - Google News Archive - Dec 19, 1948

Aubrey Cartwright, . back at Estella after the sum mer at her villa at Cap d' Antibes, gave a dinner for her guest, Baron Wrede, the Finnish diplomat. .

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...4D0405B8689F1D3

MRS. CARTWRIGHT, OIL HEIRESS, DIES; Grandchild of H.H. Rogers, Co-Founder of Standard, Succumbs in France

August 27, 1956, Monday

Mrs. Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright, an heiress who was prominent in society in this country and abroad, died Saturday at her villa in Cap d'Antibes, France, after a long illness. Her New York home was at 820 Fifth Avenue.

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=Mrs....s&scoring=a

… , OIL HEIRESS, DIES; Grandchild of HH Rogers, Co-Founder of...

$3.95 - New York Times - Aug 27, 1956

... died Saturday at her villa in Cap d'Antibes, France, after a long illness. ... William Evarts Benjamin and a granddaughter of the late H. H, Rogers, ...

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=beat...les+cartwright+

… ANNOUNCED OF MRS. CARTWRIGHT; Granddaughter of Late Henry H. …

$3.95 - New York Times - May 30, 1940

Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright, daughter of 'the late Mr. and. ... Captain Charles Aubrey Cartwright of the British Navy was the former Miss Benjamin's third ,,,,,

.
http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=*bor...s&scoring=a

Angela Atwell Weds Quietly at St. Patrick's

Pay-Per-View - Chicago Tribune - ProQuest Archiver - Mar 13, 1932

Mrs. Cnrtwright Is the former Mrs. Alexander Dallas Bache Pratt, born Beatrice Benjamin, daugh- ter of the William Evarts Benjamins,

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=*For...s&scoring=a

COL. ROGERS WEDS MRS. BASIL MILES; Paris Ceremony Uniting …

- New York Times - Jul 17, 1929

The marriage of Mrs. Basil Miles and Colonel Henry H. Rogers of New York took place at 11:30 A.M. today in the City Hall of the fashionable Sixteenth .

For Colonel Ropers the witnesses were his nephew, Captaln Charles Cartwright, and Mra Gordon Leith, who was proxy for Colonel Gordon Leith. The religious ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Verne at the Protestant Church of Saint Germain, immediately after the civil marriage. Mrs. Miles was given in marriage by her cousin, Count Andre Zichy. Count and Countess Zichy were the only persons present besides the witnesses. The ceremony took place in the strictest . Colonel and MTR. Ropers left for an extended motor trip. The bride of Colonel Ropers, a Standard Oil notable, recently divorced by his wife in Utrecht,

Mrs. Rogers'and Mrs. Mile's 'were seen together in Paris as late as July 13, when. they declined

to confirm the report that the s divorced husband intended to marry;the latter :' '' ' . ' : ' -- '

Much ,secrecy surrounded Mrs. Rogers's divorce.

Wliea slie established a residence on the Avenue Montaigne,

just off the Avenue des Champs Elysees, last May it was believed it was preparatory to petitioning the Paris courts. for a divorce.

Less than a week ago the first word came that she 'had obtained an absolute divorce in Utrecht.

The first Mrs. Rogers was Mary Benjamin, a member of one of New York's oldest families.

She married Mr: Rogers in 1900, when he was 21 and a junior at Columbia University.

They are the parents of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos, w hose marriage as Millicent Rogers to Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten in January, 1924, aroused much interest.

http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=mill...s&scoring=a

COUNTESS SALM TO RETURN; Former Millicent Rogers Books Passage …

- New York Times - Aug 11, 1927

Countess Salm, the former Millicent Rogers, and Arturo Peralta Ramos of Argentina , to whom she is engaged, have each booked passage on the steamship Olympic, ...

Countess Salm And Her Fiance To Sail Aug. 17 . - Evening Independent - Google News Archive

Millicent Rogers Is Engaged to AP Ramos, Parents... - New York Times

Condensed version:

Henry Huddleston Rogers, business partner of John D. Rockefeller, died in 1909.

His son, Col. Henry H. Rogers, described above, was the father of Millicent Rogers, who married Ludwig Salm and

had a child with him in 1925. That child was the first cousin of the children of John Train's aunt Maude, who had married Ludwig Salm's brother.

The sister of Col. Henry H. Rogers, aunt of his daughter, Millicent, was Anne Engle Rogers:

http://en.wikipedia....iam_E._Benjamin

William Evarts Benjamin married Anne Engle Rogers, eldest daughter of Abbie Palmer (née Gifford) Rogers and Henry Huttleston Rogers, an industrialist millionaire who was a principal of Standard Oil. They had 2 children, Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright and Henry Rogers Benjamin.

Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright was the gracious hostess, described in articles from 1943 and 1948, displayed above,

of Baron Sten Goddert Wrede, who served as George DeMohrenchildt's best man in 1943.

There is an intriguing website that, is a history of religion in US Politics and the eminently important 1954 Tax Code, which had everything to do with Lyndon B Johnson's

victorious 1954 campaign against Dudley T. Dougherty, [On July 25, 1946 the day of the Texas primary, while the Senate was holding round-the-clock sessions on the atomic energy bill, the teletype reported that Johnson had beaten Dougherty, 875,000 to 350,000. The results were announced on the floor of the Senate.]

pages 178-79 of LBJ: A Life - Irwin Unger Debi Unger

the latter was visited by Madame Nhu before the Kennedy Assassination.....

I discovered some rather interesting facts about the cast of characters in this mini-drama.

The Article and URL are listed below

More Honored In The Breach: A Historical Perspective On The Permeable IRS Prohibition On Campaigning By Churches

http://www.bc.edu/bc...42_4/01_FMS.htm

Many of Johnson's tactics consisted of the typical parry-and-thrust of campaigning whereby his supporters engaged in such activities as challenging Dougherty's attendance record in the legislature, soliciting support from prominent conservatives, and seeking evidence of special favors received by Dougherty. Johnson also had his staffers and others keep close tabs on Dougherty's campaign appearances and the work of his supporters and to report back on his progress.

However, other tactics were of a different character which reflected a more aggressive campaigning style and indicated that Johnson was willing to pursue a number of different tactics to rout his opponent. Dougherty, in a letter written to Johnson after his defeat, explained, in a sardonic manner, his use of "vigorous artillery" against Johnson "since some of your people put out a little poison as always happens in campaigns and since others were kind enough to wire tap my home." Given the source, this accusation must be discounted. Another associate of Dougherty's, Igor Cassini,[54 According to an undated report found in Lyndon Johnson's files describing the "'Dougherty Team' of smear artists and poison-pen experts," Igor Cassini was a "Russian-born Count who writes a column of society chit-chat for New York newspapers." Report (undated) (on file with author). Apparently, he appeared under the pseudonym Cholly Knickerbocker and also hosted a society television program. See Mark Eldon Young, Lyndon B. Johnson's Forgotten Campaign: Re-election to the Senate in 1954, at 3 (1993) (unpublished M.A. report, University of Texas) (on file with University of Texas at Austin Library); Letter from Igor Cassini to Richard Berlin, July 26, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File (headed "Office of 'Cholly Knickerbocker'").] complained about being kicked off the air by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) after he conducted a favorable television interview with Dougherty and Coke Stevenson.[55 A transcript of the offending television interview was appended to a letter sent by Johnson to Edwin L. Weisl, a Wall Street attorney and long-time fundraiser for Johnson. See Dallek, supra note 38, at 162, 251, 308; Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Edwin Weisl, July 5, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File. The transcript contained several inflammatory remarks from Coke Stevenson concerning the 1948 election to the effect that "I don't believe that the public ought to reward a man by re-election to the United States Senate who was never honestly elected to begin with." Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Edwin Weisl, July 5, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File. Cassini replied, "[w]ell, in that case he certainly, he has no right at all to be there, because I understand there were some peculiar things that happened during the last election." Id. This transcript was sent in response to an earlier letter, whereby Weisel promised to Johnson that he was "taking this up immediately with his [Knickerbocker's] superiors and I am sure that no recurrence will happen." Letter from Edwin Weisl to Lyndon Johnson, June 24, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File. Clearly, Johnson was incensed by the interview, as is apparent from an earlier letter he sent to Weisl asserting, "I don't know why Cholly Knickerbocker would voluntarily inject himself into Texas affairs, but he has." Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Edwin Weisl, June 22, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File. Johnson went on to add, "I assume he doesn't know that Dougherty is a chronic alcoholic, a crackpot, and a screwball of the first order, who happened to inherit 16 thousand barrels of daily oil production." Id. He also complained about other out-of-state organizations, including CCG, "flooding the State with scurrilous literature." Id.]

Johnson was very thin-skinned with respect to Stevenson's involvement in the campaign, [56 See Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Harlan Fentress, June 17, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File ("Coke can get a much better headline on the front page by saying he is not vindictive but is going to make a radio speech against me than I can by making a speech on the Senate floor on an important Texas problem."). This sensitivity extended to tracking down information about a satirical radio commercial Dougherty was airing called "The Darling of Duval County." See Letter from Lyndon Johnson to Howard Davis, July 23, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File ("I am glad to have this information about the singing commercial"); Letter from Adrian Spears to J.J. Pickle, July 23, 1954, LBJ Library Dougherty, Dudley, July 1954 File ("I also checked with station K.O.N.O. with reference to the jingle being played on behalf of Dougherty, and the words are enclosed herewith on a separate sheet."). ]

which helps to explain why, after the incident, Cassini wrote a letter to Richard Berlin, the president of the Hearst Corporation, seeking his commiseration by explaining, "unfortunately, this got me into trouble with NBC, because the Washington office received a call from Sen. Johnson's office, saying that they wanted to sue me (or so they said), and they threw the show off the air in order to appease the senator. I'm sure Senator Johnson didn't request this, but you know how jittery they can be in broadcasting stations."

[ 57 Letter from Igor Cassini to Richard Berlin, July 26, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File. Berlin duly forwarded the letter to Johnson. See Letter from Richard Berlin to Lyndon Johnson, July 28, 1954, LBJ Library Special Political File.]

In an earlier memorandum to Johnson, one of his aides reported that he had spoken to Frank Russell of NBC who had ordered a transcript of the interview and that, "f the tape shows any thing like what was reported Cassini will not be carried after this Sunday."[58 Memorandum to Lyndon Johnson from "Walter," June 30, 1954, LBJ Library Memoranda 1954 File. "Walter" is apparently Walter Jenkins, a longtime aide of Johnson's. See Dallek, supra note 38, at 186–87.The memorandum concluded with Russell's observation that "he would keep Senator Johnson completely out of it, and that whatever is done would be done purely by the network."]

Another aspect of Igor Cassini, not to mention his legal battle with Robert Kennedy, and the suicide of Charlene Stafford Wrightsman (1927 - 1963)

is that he was personally involved in dispatching Alfred Davidson, Jr. to Dallas before the assassination of JFK, late September early October where he became familiar with Jack Ruby. The credit manager of Neiman-Marcus who fixed the contact between the two died......

Take note that the introduction to Jack although via telephone, was due to the efforts of the Credit Manager of Neiman Marcus, who is, of course, unnamed.

Seven days before the assassination of President Kennedy, an obituary for William Cofer, a credit manager for Neiman Marcus, appeared in the Dallas Morning News.

See

November 15, 1963 DMN "Rites Planned Saturday For W.F. Cofer."

See Thread 1940's History & Background Chicago Mob, Mae Belcher Atty General Tom Clark

If there is anything else that is worth mentioning, it is that the article mentions the Johnson campaign noted that Dougherty's support was out of state

which, said support included some very serious right wing groups........

If anyone finds Dudley T. Dougherty interesting, you may want to peruse the Texas Game Management Agency thread.

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=16491&st=15

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