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Eliza Warren Price (Jane) Lilian Warren Price http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Lilian_Warren_Price00.jpg
Eliza Warren Price (1854-1909), born in Troy, New York and known as Lily , became Lily Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1854-1909), the second wife of George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough.
Her father was Commodore Cicero Price, a United States naval officer from Lancaster, Kentucky. Her mother descended from two leading families of Troy, but Lily was raised primarily in Washington, D. C. In 1879 she married Louis Carré Hamersley, a New York real-estate millionaire who left Lily his fortune upon his sudden death three years later. Hamersley's family attempted to break his will, characterizing Lily in an unflattering light that undermined her social position in New York.
An offer of marriage from the eighth Duke of Marlborough provided her with a chance to start afresh on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The civil marriage took place on 29 June 1888 at New York City Hall, The Mayor of New York City, Abram S. Hewitt, performed the ceremony. A religious ceremony followed the same day, in the chancel of Tabernacle Baptist Church and presided over by its minister, Dr. Daniel C. Potter. [1]
http://nobleyreal.blogspot.com/2010/02/la-duquesa-de-marlborough-i.html
"An American Duchess; The Duke of Marlborough Marries Mrs. Hamersley; A Civil Marriage Ceremony before Mayor Hewitt and a Religious Ceremony in Church", The New York Times, 30 June 1888, page 1