Evalyn Walsh McLean

Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45carat Hope Diamond , as well as another famous diamond, the 94carat Star of the East. She also was the author, with Boyden Sparkes, of a memoir, Father Struck It Rich.

Evalyn was born on August 1, 1886 in Denver, Colorado, the only daughter of Thomas Walsh, an Irish immigrant miner and prospector turned multimillionaire, and his wife, Carrie Bell Reed, a former schoolteacher. She had one sibling, a brother, Vinson Walsh , who died tragically in a car accident in Newport, Rhode Island when he was onlyyears old, and she had just turned 19.

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