Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman Chimay


Clara Ward was a wealthy American socialite who married a prince from Belgium.

Clara Ward was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Captain Eber Brock Ward and his second wife, Catherine Lyon, a niece of Senator Benjamin Wade. A wealthy man, often stated to be Michigans first millionaire, E.B. Ward had holdings in Great Lakes steamships lumbering at Ludington, Michigan iron and steel manufacturing at Wyandotte, Michigan, Leland, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois and silver mining in Colorado. He manufactured the first Bessemer steel to be made in the United States at his plant in Wyandotte. Ward was president of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad from 1860 until his death onJanuary 1875 in Detroit.

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