Adèle Cutts Douglas

Rose Adèle Cutts Douglas Williams (1835 – 1899) was an American salonière and military wife.

Adèle Cutts Douglas
BornDecember 27, 1835 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedJanuary 26, 1899 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 63)
Parent(s)
  • James Madison Cutts Edit this on Wikidata

Rose Adèle Cutts was born in 1835 in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of James Madison Cutts,[1] a nephew of former President James Madison, and Ellen O'Neal, a niece of Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Her mother was from a Maryland Catholic family and raised Adele as a Catholic. She studied with her great aunt, Dolly Madison,[2][3] and at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School.[4][5]

In November 1856, she married Stephen A. Douglas.[2] With Stephen's approval, she had his two sons baptized as Catholics and reared in that faith. She had a miscarriage in 1858 and became ill. The following year, Adele gave birth to a daughter, Ellen (1859-1860), who lived only a few months. She was instrumental in his 1860 presidential campaign.[4][3] When Douglas died in Chicago in June 1861, Adèle never entertained again and went into extended mourning.

In 1866, after the Civil War, she married Robert Williams, a Union officer from Virginia; they had six children: Robert Cutts Williams (1867–1921), Ellen Williams Patton (1869–1929), Philip Williams (1870–1942), Adèle Cutts Hedges (1873-1932), James Cutts Williams (1874–1901), who died young after falling from a train in Tarlac during the Philippine Insurrection, and Mildred Mary Farwell (1878-1941).[2][6]

Adèle Cutts Douglas died in 1899 in Washington, D.C. She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.[2]

References
  1. Hayes, Marie Perpetua (1945). "Adele Cutts, Second Wife of Stephen A. Douglas". The Catholic Historical Review. 31 (2): 180–191. ISSN 0008-8080. JSTOR 25014547.
  2. "Douglas, Adele Cutts | House Divided". hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  3. "Adele Douglas". History of American Women. 2010-07-11. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  4. "Douglas, Adèle Cutts (1835–1899) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  5. Johannsen, Robert W. (2000). "Douglas, Adèle Cutts (1835-1899), Washington belle and hostess and wife of Stephen A. Douglas". American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2001275. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  6. "Rose Adele Douglas".


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