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    Harriet Beall de Bodisco Scott (Williams)

    Birth: 1824

    Death: 6-20-1890

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de Bodisco, Alexander | Marriage Date: 4-9-1840

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Biography

Wife of Count Alexander de Bodisco, Russian minister. She was just sixteen when the 50+ year-old man began courting her. She became a celebrated Washington socialite. Alexander died in 1854, and Harriet remarried 6 years later to Captain Douglass Gordon Scott.

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Biography: 
Wife of Count Alexander de Bodisco, Russian minister. She was just sixteen when the 50+ year-old man began courting her. She became a celebrated Washington socialite. Alexander died in 1854, and Harriet remarried 6 years later to Captain Douglass Gordon Scott.
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https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/dc/dc0400/dc0422/data/dc0422data.pdf
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http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/09/26/scandalous-love-bodisco-marriage/
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https://books.google.com/books?id=qKQKhVMFUAwC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=douglas+scott+harriet+bodisco&source=bl&ots=OJ1xigxwri&sig=kBGLZajOuFZ8acTETeio0a5f2BY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiampew897MAhXF3YMKHatZAQ4Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=douglas%20scott%20harriet%20bodisco&f=false