You have heard of Alexander Hamilton, the notorious American Founding Father whose face graces the $10 invoice. Extra just lately, he was the topic of successful Broadway musical, because of actor/producer Lin Manuel-Miranda.
However you might not be acquainted with Alexander’s great-grandson, Robert Ray Hamilton, who was concerned in a tabloid scandal that shocked the world in the course of the Gilded Age.
On the most recent episode of Soiled Cash, hosts Dan Bova and Jon Small discuss to author Invoice Shaffer about his ebook “The Scandalous Hamiltons,” which tells the largely forgotten story of how Ray was tricked by a intercourse employee named Evangeline Steele into pondering he acquired her pregnant.
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The 2 met in a Manhattan brothel in 1885 and had a relationship for just a few years. The conniving Steele bought a child at a so-called “Child Farm,” the place undesirable youngsters had been dropped at be adopted. Then she satisfied Hamilton that the child was his.
Reluctantly, he agreed to marry her, bringing her into his rich household. It could appear that Steele had achieved the final word fairy story. However this story isn’t any real-life Fairly Lady.
Hearken to the podcast to search out out what occurred.
