HISTORY
OF MEDORA
Marquis de Mores
Medora was founded in 1883 by the 24-year old
French nobleman, the Marquis de Mores. He named
the town for his bride, the former Medora Von
Hoffman, daughter of a wealthy New York City
banker.
With financial backing from his father-in-law, he
founded the town and built a meat packing plant, a
hotel, several stores and the Chateau de Mores, their
summer home. All of his various enterprises ended
in financial failure by the fall of 1886. With their son
and daughter, the Marquis and Marquise returned
to France, where another son was born. The Marquis
was killed by native tribesmen on the Sahara Desert
in Africa in 1896. Medora never remarried and died
in France in 1921.
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