Lillie GREENOUGH
Biography

The marriage of Miss Moulton to Baron von Raben recalls some interesting facts in relation to her mother. Mrs. Charles Moulton has had a remarkable experience. She is one of the handsomest and brainiest women that ever went from our shores to dwell on the other side. She has had many singular experiences. Her husband died some years ago, leaving her with the daughter who has just married, and with little or no money to live on.

The brave woman, who had been very popular in social circles, took to the concert stage as a means of livelihood. A great many people can recall her when she returned to this country and sung in concerts in all the principal cities. Her coming caused quite a sensation in the fashionable world, for the stage in those days was much less popular than it is now ; yet Mrs. Moulton kept her high social position intact, while she earned a good round sum every week, appearing before the footlights each night. In almost every large city she was made much of by wealthy people, and for a time there was a general belief that she would adopt the stage as a profession. She was even set down to sing in opera, and there was a great deal of speculation as to her future, when she met and married a Dane, M. de Hegermann, who now represents this country at Rome.

During Mrs. Moulton's early conflict with the world and adventures on the stage, the young and beautiful girl just married was a child.

She found in her mother's new husband a good father, and she has doubtless found a good husband in her stepfather's friend and countryman. This young girl, like her mother, possesses talents of a high order, and has been much petted and flattered without destroying her good sense. She has seen a great deal of life, and is well equipped for the duties of her new station. She is one of the few American girls who have married foreign husbands on an equal basis. She did not pay for the privilege of being a baroness. The baron paid a hand some fortune for the love and affection of a good American girl.

Title Moulton Annals
Author Henry William Moulton
Editor Claribel Moulton
Publisher Edward A. Claypool, 1906




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