A Family Memoir of the Gilded Age
by
Helen Tower Brunet
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
When Nellie Smith from Oakland, California met Charlie Tower, a young millionaire from Philadelphia on a cruise to Alaska in l887, it was love at first sight. They soon married and moved to Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square.
In 1897, President McKinley appointed Charlie, now called Charlemagne,...