From: Cincinnati Magazine COMMENT - Wow. Now we see how early bigamy, infidelity, profligacy and other nasty habits started in the Montagu family. Thank goodness Alex's sibs and kids are different.
You have heard the story: A Cincinnati heiress marries into a noble but cash-strapped British family.
Fans of the PBS Masterpiece Classic television series Downton Abbey
will recognize the marriage at the center of the saga. Cincinnati
heiress Cora Levinson (Elizabeth McGovern) married Robert Crawley, the
7th Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), to resolve his family's financial
problems.
But Downton Abbey fans may not know that a story identical
to this unfolded in Cincinnati in 1900. A British lord really did marry a
Cincinnati heiress to resolve his family's financial problems. From
there, however, reality intervened.
The Duke of Manchester and his Cincinnati heiress (note the money bag next to Cupid) as published by The Cincinnati Enquirer 10 August 1900.
From Cincinnati Enquirer 10 August 1900; image extracted from microfilm by Greg Hand
The heiress in question was Helena Zimmerman, born in 1878 to
Cincinnati railroad magnate Eugene Zimmerman and his wife, Marietta
Evans. Helena's father, Eugene Zimmerman, was born in Vicksburg,
Mississippi, where his father owned a factory. He was orphaned at 13,
and came to Ohio to attend Kenyon College. When the Civil War broke out,
the factory Eugene inherited from his father was burned down. Now
penniless, Eugene enlisted in the Union Navy. He served with
distinction, and was promoted often. He left the service as a
20-year-old lieutenant. By investing wisely, Eugene acquired extensive
holdings in oil, which he sold to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Company, gaining a substantial block of stock and a seat on the
company's board. He then plowed his profits into a number of successful
railroads. At the time of his daughter's marriage, he was worth an
estimated $10 million. (With inflation, that would be about $280 million
today.) The Zimmerman mansion still sits at the southeast corner of
Auburn and McMillan.
Helena was Eugene and Marietta's only child. The couple married in
1876. Helena was born in 1878 and was only four years old when her
mother died of peritonitis in 1882. Helena was sent to France for her
education and lived there for many years, becoming proficient in fencing
and horsemanship. By 1900, she was described as "one of the most
beautiful young women" in the summer resort at Narragansett, Rhode
Island. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer [23 July 1900]: MORE
The lexicon of words in the English language, and probably other
languages, has today gained a new term. It is very useful and considered to
refer specifically to actions associated with psychopathic
individuals.
Definition
of MANCHESTER
intransitive
verb
1: to make an untrue
statement with intent to deceive
2: to create a false
or misleading impression
Example: Boy, he really manchestered
that guy, didn't he?
Definition
of MANCHESTER
Noun
1a: an
assertion of something known or believed by the speaker to be untrue
with intent
to deceive
b: an untrue
or inaccurate statement that may or may not be believed true by the
speaker
2: something that
misleads or deceives
3: a charge of lying
Example: That is the ugliest
manchester I have ever seen.
If you have been manchestered, you know
it.
Our growing understanding of
psychopathic behavior demands new language to cope with behaviors
which before were to bizarre and inexplicable to be comprehended by
the emotionally empathic.
These three posts, two on Motgan's site and one on Manchesters, MorganMorgan – Manchester,
which clearly illustrate the ongoing conspiracy to defame myself and
Wendy Montagu by the group which arguably includes the following
individuals, Morgan Barteaux (AKA Pillsbury) Gell, John Fund, Laura,
Doxie of Manchester, Alex, Duke of Manchester, Karl Rove, Dick
Cheney, Dan O'Dowd, and Craig Franklin, should be studied in detail.
Charges are never backed up by documentation. Attempts to assert
these charges as already accepted fact, thinly frosted with vitriol,
also reoccur at each repetition.
We have changed the name of this Cabal
and will now refer to it as the Green Hills Conspiracy, that being
the central nexus for organizing.
Note to the Green Hills Conspiracy –
Thanks for the admission, which apparently slipped in without your
noticing.
We are keeping it short today as we need to get back to the screen play.
Signed, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, Wendy
Montagu, and associates.
