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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Monuay, March 18th, 1861. (search)
lony of Louisiana. His business tact soon placed him at the head of its monetary world. while his popular character and agree. able manners afforded him a similar position in the social circle. In 1802 he became ac- quainted in Philadelphia with a lady of extraordinary personal beauty, named Zulime Carriere. She was born in the old French colony of Biloxi, and her parents were emi- grants from Provence. When Clark first met her, she had been living in wedlock with a swindler named Jerome De Grange, who having dazzled her with a glittering coronet, married her, and then disclosed the astounding facts that he was a confectioner and a bigamist. Zulime appealed for protection to Clark, who being warm-hearted and chival- rous, at once espoused her cause, and after becoming convinced that De Grange had an- other wife living, espoused herself. The marriage was kept secret, and in 1806 Myra, now Mrs. Gaines, was born. Being naturally destrous of having her connection with Clark a publ