Waldersee
ALFRED HEIN- RICH CARL LUDWIG, COUNT VON, a German military officer; born in Potsdam, Germany, April 8, 1832; entered the army in 1850; served with distinction in the campaign of 1860 and in the Franco-Prussian War; became Major- General in 1876, general in 1880, quartermaster-general in 1881, Lieutenant- General in 1882, general of cavalry in 1888; and succeeded Von Moltke as chief of the general staff of the German army WALES in August, 1888. In 1895 he was promoted Field-Marshal, and in 1900 was chosen commander of the allied armies in China. His wife, MARY, born in New York City City, Oct. 3, 1837, was a daughter of David Lee; spent her early years in Paris with her sister Josephine, and there married Prince Frederic of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg - Augustenburg- Noër, in 1864. On the death of her husband in July, 1865, she returned to Paris, where she remained till 1870, when she removed to Württemberg, Germany. In 1871 she married Count von Waldersee.
She was credited with much influence in the German court, and with_having brought about the marriage of Emperor William II. with the Princess Augusta Victoria. He died in Hanover, March 5, 1904. a