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Theresa Alice "Tessie" Fair (June 30, 1871 – November 22, 1926) was an American socialite. She went from being the daughter of a hard-scrabble California miner to become heiress to a fortune in Comstock Lode gold and silver, the wife of steamship magnate Hermann Oelrichs , mistress of the Rosecliff estate in Newport, Rhode Island ...
His wife, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, began the building of Rosecliff when there were already some mighty mansions to surpass. Stanford White designed the house; Augustus Saint Gaudens built the...
19 de ene. de 2022 · Theresa Fair Oelrichs. One of the elite ‘Triumvirate’ a group of three women who reportedly took on Mrs Astor's role in New York society after her ‘retirement’, (alongside Alva Vanderbilt, above, and Marion Graves Anthon Fish, below), Theresa Fish Oelrichs had particularly humble origins, being the daughter of a Californian ...
Theresa Alice Fair Oelrichs. Birth. 30 Jun 1871. Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada, USA. Death. 22 Nov 1926 (aged 55) Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA. Burial. Woodlawn Cemetery. Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA Show Map. Plot. Chapel Hill Plot, Sec 3,4,8,9, Grave 18. Memorial ID. 93305025. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial.
2 de may. de 2022 · Theresa Fish Oelrichs, hija de un minero californiano y cuyos orígenes eran particularmente humildes, formó parte del “Triunvirato” de mujeres, junto a Alva Vandebilyt y Marion Graves Anton ...
11 de ene. de 2023 · About Theresa Alice Oelrichs. Theresa Alice Fair, known as "Tessie," was a socialite, heiress and society leader. Born in a filthy mining camp somewhere in California, Tessie was the eldest daughter of James Fair and his wife Theresa. James struck it rich in the Comstock Lode.
It was built 1898–1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the Comstock Lode. She was the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, American agent for Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship line.
