Re: Stanford University: David Starr Jordan. Napoleon and the US.

Phyllis Gardner writes:I would be curious to know what Norman Tutorow thinks about the claim that Jordan murdered JL Stanford, an account well documented by my late colleague Professor Robert Cutler, who was certainly not prone to innuendo or exaggeration.? His recently published book is very interesting on the subject.? RH: JL Stanford? Who’s he? Or she? No mention on the index to Norman’s great work. There are two Jerome Bonaparte Stanfords, one the brother of Leland, one the son of Philip.

Jerome Bonaparte?! Here is what Wikipedia says of him: J鲴me Bonaparte (November 15, 1784 - June 24, 1860) was the youngest brother of Emperor Napoleon I of France. He was born Roland Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica. He served with the French navy before going to the United States where he married Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879), daughter of a Baltimore merchant. Napoleon annulled their marriage but a son, J鲴me Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Camberwell, Surrey, England. Made King of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created by Napoleon from the states of northwestern Germany (1807-1813), with its capital in Cassel, J鲴me married the second time to Catharina of W?berg, with whom he had a another son, Napol鯮 Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, (1822-1891) also known as “Prince Napoleon” or “Plon-Plon”. Their second child, a daughter, the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, was prominent during and after the Second French Empire as a hostess. After his own kingdom was dissolved, he was granted the title of Prince of Montfort by the King of W?berg. After Emperor Napoleon’s exile, J鲴me moved to Italy where he married Giustina Pecori-SuᲥz, the widow of an Italian nobleman. When his nephew, Prince Louis Napoleon, became President of France in 1848, J鲴me was made governor of Les Invalides, Paris, the burial place of his famous elder brother Napoleon I of France. He later became marshal of France and president of the Senate in his nephew’s regime, and was confirmed in the title of prince fran硩s. J鲴me Bonaparte died on June 24, 1860 at Villegenis, France (today Massy in Essonne). He is buried in Les Invalides, Paris

RH: Here is an angle I think Norman has not explored. Why would people name their son Jerome Nonaparte? It must be part of the Napoleonic legend, which so crazed Americans North and South, who wanted to be Napoleons.
The Napoleonic legend played an important role in triggering the American Civil War.? But why Jerome? He must haven been popular because he came to the US and married an American.? We need a history of the Napoleonic legend in the United States. In Paris, the Stanfords gazed down on the tomb of Napoleon in Les Invalides.