Aleksander Sigismund (Zygmunt) Wołowski Born about in Warsaw in Russian-occupied Poland

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1 Aleksander Sigismund (Zygmunt) Wołowski Born about in Warsaw in Russian-occupied Poland Well-known musician. Gave piano lessons to Robert Todd Lincoln. Married Lasthenie Gomez, the daughter of Ariane Valery Gomez. Both women were well-known and accomplished artists. Aleks and Lasthenie had one daughter, Isabella. Aleksander s brother, Jan K., a musician and a photographer, came to the USA in Jan took his own life in 1874; Valery died in 1878; Lasthenie died in 1882; Aleks took his own life in 1884 after his daughter, Isabella, accused him (falsely?) of violating her. 1849: Wołowski first came to the USA in

2 1854: Valeria / Valery / Valerie, etc. Gomez 1856: Birth of daughter, Isabella, in Spain 1857 Name: Sigismund Wdorhi [sic] Arrival Date: 24 Jun 1854 Birth Date: abt 1826 Age: 28 Gender: Male Ethnicity/ Nationality: American Place of Origin: United States of America Port of Departure: Le Havre, France Destination: United States of America Port of Arrival: New York, New York Ship Name: Union Ariane Valery Gomez, Elouise Lasthenie Gomez, Aleksander Sigismund Wołowski

3 September 1854 M lle Valery Gomez & Sigismund Wolowski Valeria Gomez & Sigismund Wolowski

4 1854, Richmond, VA 1854, Baltimore, MD : Approximate year of marriage of Aleksander S. Wołowski and Lasthenie Gomez 1855: Concerts in Boston, New Orleans, etc : Birth of Isabella Wołowska in France 1860: Mr. Alexander Wolowski, who paid a provisional visit to this country in 1848 [1849], in 1850, and again in 1854, arrived at New York, last week from Paris, by the Arago

5 1860: 204 West Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA, residence of Aleksander Wołowski Arrived 15 February 1860 on the Arago April 1860 manifest: Ariane Valery Gomez, Lasthenie Wołowska, Izabella Wołowska Arrived on the Arago 19 April 1860 from Le Havre, France and Southampton, England Brother of Aleksander Wołowski (Jan/John/Jean Kanty Wołowski) (musician) arrived 11 June 1860 JUNE steamship Arago, from Southampton and Havre [Jan was born about 1833] 1861: Philadelphia, PA

6 September 3, 1861, Philadelphia

7 1862: Washington, D.C. Alexandria, Virginia th St., Washington DC, 1863

8 1864: Washington, D.C. Name Alex Wolomski Event Type Census Event Date 1865 Event Place Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States Event Place (Original) Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, New Jersey Name Isabella Wolomski Event Type Census Event Date 1865 Event Place Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States Event Place (Original) Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, New Jersey Alexander, Elouise (Lasthenie), Valery Gomez, Isabella Wolowski

9 1866: Washington, D.C.: Employed freedman labor

10 1868: Philadelphia, PA VALERY Gomez Wołowska: 523 South 8 th Street 1870: Philadelphia, PA 1870 Philadelphia, PA Census: Aleksander, Lasthenie, Isabella, John/Jean/Jan Kanty, Photo artist Valery Gomez Household Alexand Wobbowski Role Sex Age Birthplace M 38 Poland Lasthenia Wobbowski Lasthenia Wobbowski F 32 Spain Isabella Wobbowski Isabella Wobbowski F 12 France John Kamby Wobbowski John Kamby Wobbowski M 33 Poland Valery Gomez Valery Gomez F 58 Spain 1871: Philadelphia, PA

11 Philadelphia, PA New Orleans 1872: San Francisco: 422 Sutter Street (residence)

12 1873: San Francisco, 422 Sutter Street 1874: San Francisco, 422 Sutter Street Death of Jan/John/Jean Kanty Wołowski, the brother of Aleksander S. Wołowski: 52 W. Houston Street SEE NEXT PAGE

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14 1875: San Francisco Denver, Colorado Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1335 Vine Street 1876: Philadelphia, PA 1877: 123 O Farrell St., San Francisco 1878: San Francisco Death of the mother-in-law of Aleksander Wołowski (mother of Lasthenie Gomez Wołowska), i.e., Ariane Valery Gomez

15 Name Ariane Valery Gomez Event Type Burial Event Date 1878 Event Place Egg Harbor City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States of America Death Date 24 May 1878 Affiliate Record Identifier Cemetery Egg Harbor City Cemetery 1879: 31 January, Aleksander Wołowski naturalized in San Francisco, California 1880 R. Korwin Piotrowski wrote: There was an artist here Wienawski, a violinist, I was very happy with both his talent and his technique, he didn t make a lot of money because he managed things badly, but justice here has given him better now than it has to the pianist Wołowski but he only gives lessons. The artists who come here ought to inquire beforehand into the customs and habits in California. San Francisco: 8 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA: Alexander Sigismund Wolowski 1880: 8 Mason Street (Albemarle Boarding House) San Francisco: Konstanty Ludwig Łuniewski Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, 1880 Census: Aleksander, Lasthenie, Isabella (Isabella was about 21 at least) Professor of Music

16 1882: Egg Harbor City, New Jersey: Death of Madame Lasthenie Gomez de Wołowski One of the more unusual memorials is a Monumental Bronze obelisk for "Madame Lasthenie Gomez de Wolowski, Prima Dona of the Italian Opera," who died 16 June 1882 (born about 1836) SEE NEXT PAGE

17 Prima Donna of the Italian Opera-Aged 46 Name: Lastenie Zomez Wolowska Probate Place: Atlantic, New Jersey, USA Inferred Death Place: New Jersey, USA Item Description: Wills, Vol C-D, Lasthenie Gomez Wołowska: Last Will & Testament

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19 Washington, D.C.: th St. NW 1116 M Street 1883: New York, musical institute, 940 New York Avenue Residence: 940 New York Avenue, Washington, D.C.

20 1884: Accused (falsely?) of rape by his daughter, Isabella; (see stories below) Aleksander: 46 years old (born about 1838) Tutor in President Lincoln s family Isabella: 23 years old

21 3 December 1884: Death of Aleksander S. Wołowski Suicide: Aleksander committed suicide in Washington, D.C. Buried in Egg Harbor City, NJ

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29 Name: Alex P De Wolowski Death Date: 1884 Death Place: E. H. City, Atlantic, New Jersey Gender: Male FHL Film Number: Egg Harbor City Cemetery Egg Harbor City Atlantic County New Jersey, USA Plot: Blk 8, Row 12, Lot 116

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