Helene Josephine  MOULTON

The following was taken from the Boston Transcript :
In the year 1886 a dispatch from Berlin announced that the brutal and heartless 'Count Von Hatzfeld,' with the customary meanness of the so-called 'German nobility,' had succeeded in his attempt to get divorced from his beautiful American wife, formerly Miss Moulton, in order that he might receive the appointment of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, it being held that he was disqualified to appear — with a wife whose grandmother once sang in public — at a court in the veins of whose chief dignitaries, ran the blood of thieves, assassins and debauchers. In the language of the scribe of the period :

The Countess Von Hatzfeld was born in New York about the year 1852. Her mother, whose maiden name was Ceasarina Metz, was the daughter of Julius Metz, a former music teacher of that day. Mrs. Metz had been an actress before her marriage, and the daughter was a distinguished beauty, and being very accomplished was a great belle