Jennie Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of four daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa, daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner.
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16 Facts About Jennie Jerome
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Jennie Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710.
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Hall family lore insists that Jennie Jerome had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother; however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this.
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Jennie Jerome was a talented amateur pianist, having been tutored as a girl by Stephen Heller, a friend of Chopin.
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Jennie Jerome launched The Anglo-Saxon Review, a short-lived quarterly magazine.
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Jennie Jerome served as the chair of the hospital committee for the American Women's War Relief Fund starting in 1914.
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Jennie Jerome was married for the first time on 15 April 1874, aged 20, at the British Embassy in Paris, to Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Vane.
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Jennie Jerome's was said to be intelligent, witty, and quick to laughter.
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Jennie Jerome's death freed Jennie to move on effortlessly despite her lack of money; she mixed in the highest London society circles.
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George and Jennie Jerome were married on 28 July 1900 at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
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Short of money, Jennie Jerome contemplated selling the family home in Hertfordshire to move into the Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly.
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Jennie Jerome took to writing plays for the West End, in many of which the star was Mrs Patrick Campbell.
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Jennie Jerome separated from George in 1912, and they were divorced in April 1914, whereupon Cornwallis-West married Mrs Campbell.
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Jennie Jerome dropped the surname Cornwallis-West, and resumed, by deed poll, the name Lady Randolph Churchill.
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In May 1921, while Montagu Porch was away in Africa, Jennie Jerome slipped while coming down a friend's staircase wearing new high-heeled shoes, breaking her ankle.
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Jennie Jerome's was buried in the Churchill family plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, Oxfordshire, next to her first husband.
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