The wife of U.S. chemist Robert Ogden Doremus, she was a leading member of the American community in Paris during the height of the Second French Empire.

Estelle was remembered as "the leader of the American colony in Paris during the most brilliant part of the reign of Napoleon III".

[2] An issue of the New York Tribune published following her death described the creative and stimulating environment Doremus cultivated: She had brilliant conversational powers, and a charm of manner which created about her a wide circle of friends.

She was a Regent of the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and honorary Vice President of the National Society.

The plaque read: Captain Thaddeus Avery was branded with hot irons in this room, and his wife threatened with death by the Hessians, when they refused to divulge the hiding place of the money of the Continental Army.

This hero and heroine were the grandparents of Mrs. R. Ogden Doremus, Second Regent of the New York City Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, which organization affixed this tablet June 9th, 1900.

[3] Doremus made it her objective to find a Chairman for the Monument Committee, and wisely selected Colonel John Torboss Underhill to fill that role.