Sarah Oort

An English woman in her early twenties, with extraordinary bad luck. She was one of the wealthiest women in New York, based on an inheritance from her first husband.

Sarah Bradley, born in England, was just 15 years old when her wealthy and much older first husband, William Cox, proposed in New York City. Everyone agreed how beautiful she was. “Very attractive” was the phrase that everyone uttered. Yet remarkably, despite her wealth (she was eventually the richest widow in New York) not a single portrait of her remains.