Anna Morton

Anna Livingston Reade Street Morton (born May 18, 1846 in Poughkeepsie , New York , † August 14, 1918 in Rhinebeck , New York) was the wife of Levi P. Morton , the US Vice President under Benjamin Harrison and thus Second Lady of United States as well as the First Lady of New York .

Life

Anna Livingston Reade Street was the daughter of William and Susan Street. William I. Street was a lawyer and brother of the poet Alfred B. Street. Susan Kearney was the cousin of General Phil Kearney. Also, one of her ancestors was Robert Livingston, 1st Lord of Livingston Manor. She attended Madame Richards' Select School in New York City.

In 1873 she became the second wife of the Hon. Levi Parsons Morton in New York, who was Vice President from 1889 to 1893 and Governor of New York from 1895 to 1897 . The couple had five daughters together. Anna was considered a wise woman and a good hostess, especially after the illness and death of First Lady Caroline Harrison from tuberculosis . She "became the leader of society in Washington, and there was never a more brilliant and popular leader than she. It was her innate graciousness, her innate tact, and her kindness of heart... Which won her admiration and respect of all" . There were many works of art in her home and a portrait of herself in a fire-red Bonnat dress .

In May 1889, after a nervous breakdown, she first traveled to Paris and then to the spas of Karlsbad and St. Moritz . she was accompanied by her daughter Edith. Her tense nerves weren't just temporary, though. In 1892 she went to Bar Harbor to see S. Mitchell, who had specialized in the treatment of women with nervous disorders. His patients had to lie in darkened rooms and were looked after by nurses without any suggestion, books, writing or getting up.

Anna Livingston Street Morton died of a heart condition at the age of 72. She was buried in Rhinebeck Cemetery , Rhinebeck , New York.

children

Anna and her husband had five daughters, one son died as a toddler:

Edith Livingston (born June 20, 1874) ⚭ 1900 William Corcoran Eustis of Washington
Lena Kearney Morton (1875-1903)
Helen Stuyvesant Morton (born August 2, 1876) ⚭ 1901 Boson duc de Talleyrand (1867–1952), marriage was divorced
Son (1877–1878)
Alice Morton (born March 23, 1879) ⚭ 1902 Winthrop Rutherfurd
Mary Morton (born June 11, 1881)

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personal data
SURNAME	Morton, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Street, Anna Livingston Reade; Street Morton, Anna Livingston Reade
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American second lady
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poughkeepsie , New York
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1918
Place of death	Rhinebeck , New York