Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II

Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II

Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte II (5 November 1830 – 3 September 1893) was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and Susan May Williams.

Biography

He was the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, and the grandnephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1848 and graduated 11th in the Class of 1852. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served in Texas with the Mounted Rifle Regiment. His letters from Fort Inge and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society.

He resigned from the U.S. Army in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napoleon III of France, and was commissioned as a colonel in French army. He fought in Algiers, the Italian campaign, the Crimean War, and the Franco-Prussian War.

In 1871, he resigned from the French Army and returned home to the United States where he married Caroline Le Roy Appleton Edgar. They would have two children:

• Louise-Eugénie Bonaparte (1873–1923); married, in 1896, Count Adam Carl von Moltke-Huitfeld (1864–1944): they have numerous descendants.
• Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1878–1945); married, in 1914, Blanche Pierce Stenbeigh, daughter of Edward and Emily Pierce of Newtonville, Massachusetts, and former wife of Harold Stenbeigh of Hewlett, New York; no issue.

He died in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts.

References

• Allen Johnson (dir.), Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 10 + 1 + 1 volumes, 1937–1964, volume 1 (Abbe — Brazer), 660 pages + 613 pages, entry « Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon » (1830–1893) page 429 (part 2 of volume 1 : Barsotti — Brazer) by T. M. S. (Thomas Marshall Spaulding)

External links

• Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jr from the Handbook of Texas Online