Authors starting with C

- Jennie Jerome Churchill (January 9, 1854 - June 9, 1921) -

Ancestry: Rochester, New York, USA

Lady Randolph Churchill, CI, DStJ (Jennie Jerome), born Jennie Jerome, was the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill and the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Jennie Jerome was born in Rochester, New York, the second of three daughters of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clara, daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner and sometime New York State Assemblyman. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York and New York, New York. She had two sisters, Clarita (a.k.a. Clara) and Leonie. Her father was rumored to be the father of the American opera singer Minnie Hauk (1851-1929), married Baron Ernest von Hesse-Waltegg).