Adele Gratiot was born in Sunny Spring, Ill., on November 12, 1826, the daughter of Henry and Susan Hempstead Gratiot. Her father, the government agent for the Winnebagoes, died in 1836, and Adele went to live with relatives in St. Louis, where she married Elihu Benjamin Washburne, a graduate of Harvard Law School, in 1845. He was later elected to Congress, and served as Secretary of State and as minister to France, remaining in Paris throughout the siege and Commune. Marie Lisa Washburne Fowler was one of their seven children.
From the description of Papers, 1921? (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007711