Colourful 'American' Heroine Was MADE IN CANADA : She Married a Prussian Prince, Joined in U.S. and Mexican Wars

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Title
Colourful 'American' Heroine Was MADE IN CANADA : She Married a Prussian Prince, Joined in U.S. and Mexican Wars
Abstract
A short biography of Eliza Agnes Joy (1840-1912), born in the village of St. Armand West , Missisquoi County, in Quebec's Eastern Townships, who left home at the age of 16, joined a travelling circus and then became an actress before marrying Prussian Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm in 1862. With the Prince, the now Princess Salm-Salm was involved in the American Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, and the Prussian war with France (he as a soldier and she working in field hospitals). Some American writers claim Princess Salm-Salm was born in Vermont, but the author shows that the 1851 census for St. Armand West indicates she was born in Canada.
Publication
Quebec Heritage News
Volume
Vol. 3
Issue
no. 5
Date
July-August 2005
Pages
4-5
Language
en
URL
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Ingalls, Karen. “Colourful ‘American’ Heroine Was MADE IN CANADA : She Married a Prussian Prince, Joined in U.S. and Mexican Wars.” Quebec Heritage News, August 2005. http://qahn.org/files/quebecanglophoneheritagenetwork/documents/qhn/QHN%20july-august%202005.pdf.
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