. The Tiernan and other families. as extremely handsome, and grand daughter, Mrs. Helen Coyle, used tol^lace Miss Eidgelys portrait upon her dressing table. Mrs. Tiernans portrait, by Sully, is now in thepossession of Julian LeRoy White. Mrs. Helen Tiernan died leaving one daugh-ter, Helen Catharine Strieker, born 1832 ; marriedHenry A. Fenwick, 1852; died September 7, 1870,leaving one daughter,, Helen. Among Miss Helen Tiernans friends, who werealso her Bridesmaids, were Miss Sarah Hopkins, daughter of Basil Hopkins,who married John Snowden, of Suowden Hall, PrinceGeorges
. The Tiernan and other families. as extremely handsome, and grand daughter, Mrs. Helen Coyle, used tol^lace Miss Eidgelys portrait upon her dressing table. Mrs. Tiernans portrait, by Sully, is now in thepossession of Julian LeRoy White. Mrs. Helen Tiernan died leaving one daugh-ter, Helen Catharine Strieker, born 1832 ; marriedHenry A. Fenwick, 1852; died September 7, 1870,leaving one daughter,, Helen. Among Miss Helen Tiernans friends, who werealso her Bridesmaids, were Miss Sarah Hopkins, daughter of Basil Hopkins,who married John Snowden, of Suowden Hall, PrinceGeorges Co., Md>; Miss Catharine Cohen, daughter of David Cohen,who married Myers, of New York; Miss Mary Lee, daughter of Hon. John Lee, andHarriet Carroll, who married Dr. Letterman, of SanFrancisco; And Miss Achsah Carroll, daughter of CharlesR. Carroll, and Eebecca Pue, wh-o married WilliamShippen, of Philadelphia. Charles Tiernan was married, second, on DecemberW, 1836, to Miss Cay Robertson Bernard, of Virginia,of whom later Mrs. Mary Spear Tiernan. MRS. ^lARY SPEAR TIE-JNAN. 323 He was married, third, by Rev, Father Giustiiiiaiii,«i:Mi July 23, 1873, to Miss Mary Spear Nicholas,There was uo issue bv this mariiao-e. She was a lady of iiitelligei-ice. and of an attractivepersonality. After her marriage, Mrs. Mary Spear Tiernan,gave much attention to Literature, in which work sheWHS greatly encouraged and assisted by her husband,?and after his death she seemed to lose all interest in it,and abanconed all her efforts. Mrs. Mary S. Tiernan was one of the founders of^?The Womans Literary Club, and after her death,their tributes to her memory expressed their greatadmiration and appreciation of her. Her picture here is tak^n from a Photograph oflier; and the picture of her, in the room of theWomans Literary Club, is an enlarged copy, whichwas taken from the same E^hotograph, Mr. C. Tiernan said that she reminded him of R. Tiernan. She contributed a number of essays and
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