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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Queenie" data-source="post: 4039511" data-attributes="member: 8058">KateIn 1851, Friedrich Seagram traveled to Europe with his parents.  After they toured Germany and visited his family, they traveled on into France where he met Amelie Rousseau.  In 1852 they were married and returned to reside in Boston.  Two years later they had a son, Henry.  In 1857 a daughter Katherine, and then in 1861 another son Phillip.Katherine adored her parents and her brothers, even though they often teased her.  It was devestating to all of them when the War began and Friedrich went into the army.  Phillip was only a few months old when their father went away to fight.  He was gone for years, and rose to the rank of Colonel before he was wounded and discharged in 1863.  He returned without the lower half of his left arm.The family slowly got back to normal after the war, and Katherine grew up happy, with everything she could want.  She learned to play the piano, draw, and ride.  At the age of 14 she was sent to a boarding school for girls for finishing, returning two years later.  That year she “came out” and spent the next two years in the whirl of social life, where she and every other girl her age hoped to meet her future husband.In fact, she met him in a stable.  Friedrich took his daughter to Kale’s Livery.  He considered it to be the best place for horses in the city.  Katherine’s skill at riding had outgrown her current horse, and Friedrich Seagram brought her to Tom Kale’s to choose another.  It quickly became obvious that the young Mr. Kale couldn’t take his eyes off Katherine, nor she off Thomas.  It took some convincing, but Kate married Thomas Kale in the winter of 1876.The first four years were very happy, the business thrived, and along with other investments they had all they could want.  Tom often had Kate with him in the stables, teaching her how best to train a horse and how to judge the animals.  Which will be best for riding, and which for harness.  In 1880 Tom fell ill.  It began as a cold, but he could not recover.  It worsened until her spent his days in bed coughing up blood.  For a month he didn’t know who anyone was.  The bills for his treatment were terrible, and Kate didn’t have the time or skill to manage the business.  Tom trusted his assistants, and assured her everything would be well.  Unfortuntely he was wrong.  By the time he had recovered enough to begin to poke his nose back into the business, he discovered his assitant and his accountant had been stealing from them.  There was enough left to pay the doctor bills, but the business was in terrible shape and all their savings and investments gone.  Worse, the doctor said it was only a matter of time before Tom got ill again if they stayed in Massachusetts.  They would have to move to the drier air out west</blockquote>

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