Mary Eletra Loveridge Michel (1828-1883) was born in Virginia and was a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg. She had a least one brother, John Loveridge, who died of illness in Kentucky. Sometime after 1847 Mary married Dr. Robert B. Michel (1824-1896), who was born in Pennsylvania to a French father and American mother and served in the Confederate Army with the 2nd Mississippi State Cavalry. Robert's sister Elizabeth Michel Blair (1825-c.1925) married John Blair (1819-1894) in 1844. Robert also had at least two brothers, William A. Michel (who traveled to California in 1853) and James G. Michel. Robert and Mary had at least four children: Ralph, Mary, Annie, and Elizabeth. Elizabeth Michel McKeown (b.1867) attended Urbana University and married John McKeown. Mary M. Michel Bartholomew (1858-1912) married Dr. James N. Bartholomew in Springboro, Ohio, in September 1884 and moved with him to Los Alamos, California, where Dr. Bartholomew practiced medicine in a rural area. By the mid-1880s the Bartholomews had moved to Ohio, where their children Mary Eleanor (1885-1970) and Robert (b.1890) were born. Mary Eleanor attended Lakeview High School in Chicago and the Pratt Institute High School in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a bachelor's degree in Latin and English in 1909. Following her graduation she taught English at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr for two years. She appears to have married a man named Fogg. Robert attended Purdue University.
From the description of Bartholomew & Michel family papers, c.1847-1913. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 752188796
