Ancestry of
Tennessee Claflin

Million Dollar Princess

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Reuben Buckman Claflin 
  • Mother:
  • Roxanna Hummel   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Oct 1845 
  • Birth Location:
  • Homer, Licking, Ohio 
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jan 1923 
  • Death Location:
  • London, England 
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  • Viscountess of Montserrate

    Tennessee Claflin was among the list of American socialites who married into European royalty, titled nobility, or peerage. This group of women have been referred to as "Million Dollar American Princesses" by the Smithsonian Channel's television series of the same name.

    Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, chairman of Cook, Son and Co., drapers, and became Lady Cook just a few months after when Queen Victoria created a Cook Baronetcy of Doughty House of which her husband became the 1st Lord Cook. Since her husband was also the 1st Viscount of Monserrate in the peerage of Portugal, she also became Viscountess of Monserrate.

    Tennessee Claflin, along with her sister Victoria Woodhull, became the first woman to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, Woodhull, Claflin, and Company. She was a women's suffragist and self proclaimed fortune teller who could also heal disease.

• Marriages for Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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  • Spouse:
  • Francis Cook
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Oct 1885
  • Marriage Location:
  • St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, London, England

• Sources for Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  • ¹ England and Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Probate record for Tennessee Celeste Cook.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Licking County, 1850, Homer, Image 6 of 6.
  • ³ New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957, SS Oceanic, 14 MAY 1913, Arrival at New York from Cherbourg, France.
  • ⁴ The Chattanooga News (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 23 JAN 1923, p. 2, Obituary for Tennessee C Claflin Cook.
  • ⁵ The Streator Press (Streator, Illinois), 22 FEB 1901, p. 5, Obituary for spouse Sir Francis Cook.
  • ⁶ The Times (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 02 JUL 1889, p. 2, Obituary for mother Anna Claflin.
  • ⁷ Wichita Evening News (Wichita, Kansas), 22 DC 1885, p. 1, Wedding notice for Francis Cook and Tennessee Claflin.
  • ⁸ Moon, George Washington, Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, 13th edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited (1891), 611.
  • ⁹ Wight, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Claflin Family: Being a Record of Robert Mackclothlan, of Wenham, Mass. and . . ., New York: Press of William Green (1898), 125.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Tennessee Claflin", (accessed 01/16/2021).