The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . one of the marvels of tlie world as a public sale of his estate after his death, and the appli-cation of the proceeds toward the payment of hisdebts, resulted in these
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . one of the marvels of tlie world as a public sale of his estate after his death, and the appli-cation of the proceeds toward the payment of hisdebts, resulted in these being discharged to the utter-most, and, though his daughter and her children losttheir home, and were left without support, Jeffersondied solvent. The legislatures of South Carolinaand Virginia voted to his daughter, Mrs. Randolph,the sum of |10,000, which enabled her to pass theramainder of her life in comfort and security. Mon-ticello is now (1892) the property of Jeffersonsgrandson, Jefferson M. Levy, a prominent citizenand lawyer of New York. It was purchasedby his uncle. Com. Uriah P. Levy,of the United States navy, and fromhim descended to its present mansion was built somewhatafter the style of the Petite Trian-on, at Versailles. Its public roomsincluded a grand salon, dining-hall,library, Jefferson, Madison andMonroe rooms, ballroom and grandhall. It stands in a commandingposition on a sma
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