Betty Leggett
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Elizabeth MacLeod Sturges Leggett, also known as Bessie Leggett or Betty Leggett, was an American socialite, letter writer, and disciple of the Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda.
Ridgely Manor, the Leggett family estate in New York
Alberta Montagu, Countess of Sandwich was an American heiress, diarist, and letter writer who was the wife of George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich. Like many Gilded Age debutantes from the United Stat
Betty Leggett
…Sturges, a widowed businessman from Chicago who was descended from the colonial politician Jonathan Sturges. They had a son, Hollister, and a daughter, Alberta. The family lived at 21 West 34th Street in Manhattan and travelled to Europe, where they kept apartments in Paris and London. Her husband died in 1894…
Lady Sandwich (left) with her husband and Mrs John Davis in 1921
Alberta (center) with Swami Vivekananda, her mother, and her aunt at Ridgely