Helen Stuyvesant Morton was born in Newport, RI the daughter of Levi P. Morton (1824-1920), Vice President under Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) and Governor of New York (1895-1897), and his wife, Anna Livingston-Reade Street Morton. She was one of their five very accomplished daughters.
In 1901 Helen married Paul Louis Marie Archaimbaud Boson a titled french man know as "Boson duc de Talleyrand"(1867-1952). The title given to her was "the Duchesse de Valencay". This brief marriage to the titled Frenchman was dissolved, it appears, because of his womanizing. During 1903 she underwent an operation for appendicitis in Paris. She returned to the family fold, taking back her maiden name.
She returned to the family's estate in Rhinecliff, New York on the Hudson River known as "Ellerslie". A great gentleman's farm. The home was designed and built by America's most fashionable architect, Richard Morris Hunt. Hunt had already built a ballroom for Morton's Newport home and a stable for his house in New York City.
Her sister, Alice Morton Rutherfurd(1879-1917) married Winthrop Rutherfurd, considered the most eligible bachelor of the social elite. After Alice's death in 1917, from an appendicitis, Winthrop married Lucy Mercer, known for her 1914 love affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Her sister Edith Livingston Morton Eustis(1874-1964) married the wealthy philanthropist H. William Corcoran Eustis(1862-1921) of Washington, DC in 1900. They purchase the old plantation estate known as Oatland in Va. Upon her death in 1964 her children donated the Oatland estate to the National Trust for History Preservation.
Her sister Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1905) never married and died at the age of 29 in Paris after complications from an appendicitis operation. Mr. & Mrs. Levi Morton donated, as a memorial for their daughter, Lena, The Morton Memorial Library and Community Center in Rhinebeck, NY. They also donated the sum of $600,000 to Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY, New York for the construction of "the great organ", choir, and alter.
Her youngest sister Mary(1881-1932) never married. She was devoted to "Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, NY which she launched giving underprivileged sick children released from New York City Hospitals a place to recuperate. Mary and Helen continued the families humanitarian efforts for the rest of their lives.
Helen was buried in the Rhinebeck Cemetery, in the Morton Family Plot next to her sister Mary, Mother Anna, and Father Levi P. Morton.
In 1901 Helen married Paul Louis Marie Archaimbaud Boson a titled french man know as "Boson duc de Talleyrand"(1867-1952). The title given to her was "the Duchesse de Valencay". This brief marriage to the titled Frenchman was dissolved, it appears, because of his womanizing. During 1903 she underwent an operation for appendicitis in Paris. She returned to the family fold, taking back her maiden name.
She returned to the family's estate in Rhinecliff, New York on the Hudson River known as "Ellerslie". A great gentleman's farm. The home was designed and built by America's most fashionable architect, Richard Morris Hunt. Hunt had already built a ballroom for Morton's Newport home and a stable for his house in New York City.
Her sister, Alice Morton Rutherfurd(1879-1917) married Winthrop Rutherfurd, considered the most eligible bachelor of the social elite. After Alice's death in 1917, from an appendicitis, Winthrop married Lucy Mercer, known for her 1914 love affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Her sister Edith Livingston Morton Eustis(1874-1964) married the wealthy philanthropist H. William Corcoran Eustis(1862-1921) of Washington, DC in 1900. They purchase the old plantation estate known as Oatland in Va. Upon her death in 1964 her children donated the Oatland estate to the National Trust for History Preservation.
Her sister Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1905) never married and died at the age of 29 in Paris after complications from an appendicitis operation. Mr. & Mrs. Levi Morton donated, as a memorial for their daughter, Lena, The Morton Memorial Library and Community Center in Rhinebeck, NY. They also donated the sum of $600,000 to Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY, New York for the construction of "the great organ", choir, and alter.
Her youngest sister Mary(1881-1932) never married. She was devoted to "Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, NY which she launched giving underprivileged sick children released from New York City Hospitals a place to recuperate. Mary and Helen continued the families humanitarian efforts for the rest of their lives.
Helen was buried in the Rhinebeck Cemetery, in the Morton Family Plot next to her sister Mary, Mother Anna, and Father Levi P. Morton.
Helen Stuyvesant Morton was born in Newport, RI the daughter of Levi P. Morton (1824-1920), Vice President under Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) and Governor of New York (1895-1897), and his wife, Anna Livingston-Reade Street Morton. She was one of their five very accomplished daughters.
In 1901 Helen married Paul Louis Marie Archaimbaud Boson a titled french man know as "Boson duc de Talleyrand"(1867-1952). The title given to her was "the Duchesse de Valencay". This brief marriage to the titled Frenchman was dissolved, it appears, because of his womanizing. During 1903 she underwent an operation for appendicitis in Paris. She returned to the family fold, taking back her maiden name.
She returned to the family's estate in Rhinecliff, New York on the Hudson River known as "Ellerslie". A great gentleman's farm. The home was designed and built by America's most fashionable architect, Richard Morris Hunt. Hunt had already built a ballroom for Morton's Newport home and a stable for his house in New York City.
Her sister, Alice Morton Rutherfurd(1879-1917) married Winthrop Rutherfurd, considered the most eligible bachelor of the social elite. After Alice's death in 1917, from an appendicitis, Winthrop married Lucy Mercer, known for her 1914 love affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Her sister Edith Livingston Morton Eustis(1874-1964) married the wealthy philanthropist H. William Corcoran Eustis(1862-1921) of Washington, DC in 1900. They purchase the old plantation estate known as Oatland in Va. Upon her death in 1964 her children donated the Oatland estate to the National Trust for History Preservation.
Her sister Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1905) never married and died at the age of 29 in Paris after complications from an appendicitis operation. Mr. & Mrs. Levi Morton donated, as a memorial for their daughter, Lena, The Morton Memorial Library and Community Center in Rhinebeck, NY. They also donated the sum of $600,000 to Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY, New York for the construction of "the great organ", choir, and alter.
Her youngest sister Mary(1881-1932) never married. She was devoted to "Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, NY which she launched giving underprivileged sick children released from New York City Hospitals a place to recuperate. Mary and Helen continued the families humanitarian efforts for the rest of their lives.
Helen was buried in the Rhinebeck Cemetery, in the Morton Family Plot next to her sister Mary, Mother Anna, and Father Levi P. Morton.
In 1901 Helen married Paul Louis Marie Archaimbaud Boson a titled french man know as "Boson duc de Talleyrand"(1867-1952). The title given to her was "the Duchesse de Valencay". This brief marriage to the titled Frenchman was dissolved, it appears, because of his womanizing. During 1903 she underwent an operation for appendicitis in Paris. She returned to the family fold, taking back her maiden name.
She returned to the family's estate in Rhinecliff, New York on the Hudson River known as "Ellerslie". A great gentleman's farm. The home was designed and built by America's most fashionable architect, Richard Morris Hunt. Hunt had already built a ballroom for Morton's Newport home and a stable for his house in New York City.
Her sister, Alice Morton Rutherfurd(1879-1917) married Winthrop Rutherfurd, considered the most eligible bachelor of the social elite. After Alice's death in 1917, from an appendicitis, Winthrop married Lucy Mercer, known for her 1914 love affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Her sister Edith Livingston Morton Eustis(1874-1964) married the wealthy philanthropist H. William Corcoran Eustis(1862-1921) of Washington, DC in 1900. They purchase the old plantation estate known as Oatland in Va. Upon her death in 1964 her children donated the Oatland estate to the National Trust for History Preservation.
Her sister Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1905) never married and died at the age of 29 in Paris after complications from an appendicitis operation. Mr. & Mrs. Levi Morton donated, as a memorial for their daughter, Lena, The Morton Memorial Library and Community Center in Rhinebeck, NY. They also donated the sum of $600,000 to Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY, New York for the construction of "the great organ", choir, and alter.
Her youngest sister Mary(1881-1932) never married. She was devoted to "Holiday Farm" in Rhinecliff, NY which she launched giving underprivileged sick children released from New York City Hospitals a place to recuperate. Mary and Helen continued the families humanitarian efforts for the rest of their lives.
Helen was buried in the Rhinebeck Cemetery, in the Morton Family Plot next to her sister Mary, Mother Anna, and Father Levi P. Morton.
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