Emancipation

Elizabeth Clark Anderson’s son became a US congressman and was appointed his country’s first minister to Colombia. His younger brother, Robert, was Fort Sumter’s commander during the 1861 siege. Lucy Clark’s son, Col. George Croghan, earned Congress’s gold medal, but his subsequent ventures ended in scandal and drunkenness. Separated from Serena and his children, his life ended in the Mexican War.Her eldest child, Dr. John Croghan, was Mammoth Cave’s first owner to market it as a tourist attraction with the help of enslaved guide, Stephen Bishop.Ann Croghan Jesup lived in Washington City, where she visited and received the most important people in government. William Croghan Jr.’s young wife died at Locust Grove and was buried with an infant daughter, after which he moved to her home in Pittsburgh. His surviving child, Mary, eloped at fourteen with a forty-two-year-old midlevel British government official who brought his own colorful story to the family. The couple managed to live as the next-door London neighbors to J.P. Morgan, regularly associate with Victoria and Albert, and summer at Cannes. Mary Croghan Schenley left an estate valued at $93 million.