Person:Louisa Brockway (2)

Notes

• daughter of notorious counterfeiter E.W. Spencer (aka William E "Long Bill" Brockway) and first wife Louisa Olmstead ; although her father used both surnames, Louisa used the surname Brockway
• Abt 1855 - sent to Europe for education after her father remarried
• Abt 1868 - married successful businessman Frederick Schafer-LaFond
• 2 known children, both born in NYC
• early 1880s - first husband died
• she took up with Wilhelm E Jetzkewitz, a Russian merchant, who moved her to Riga, Latvia ; may have married him
• may have had a child with Wilhelm
• Abt 1883 - Louisa left Wilhelm and returned to the US
• while in New York was romanced by a publicity agent/reporter named Edward Campbell Allison. Allison was little more than a small-time huckster, which Louisa realized after a few years, and divorced him.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 [1], in Criminalsrevised.blog.

   ... Louisa’s husband Frederick died in the early 1880s. Louisa then took up with a Russian merchant named Wilhelm E. Jetzkewitz. He took Louisa and her children to Riga, Latvia. However, he went broke sometime around 1883, and Louisa left him (perhaps after bearing him a child).
   
   Louisa came back to the United States in 1884, and while in New York was romanced by a publicity agent/reporter named Edward Campbell Allison. Allison was little more than a small-time huckster, which Louisa realized after a few years, and divorced him. ...

2. ↑ GXF6-2H4, in FamilySearch Family Tree
   includes sources, last accessed Jun 2022.