Frances Metcalfe Wolcott

Frances Esther Wolcott (née Metcalfe, formerly Bass) (May 19, 1851 – February 9, 1933) was an American socialite and author.

Her paternal great-grandfather was killed in the Tory army at the Battle of Bunker Hill and her grandfather, Thomas Metcalfe, was "taken by his mother to Virginia, where later he freed his Virginia-born slaves and trekked to Central New York".

"[1]Among her many friends and acquaintances were architect Stanford White (who with his firm, McKim, Mead & White built her mother's home in Buffalo), diplomat John Buchan, poet Helen Hunt Jackson, and author Richard Le Gallienne.

[5] He was a law partner of president Grover Cleveland and Wilson S. Bissell (later former Postmaster General).

[9] In Washington, they lived in a mansion on Connecticut Avenue, "in the immediate neighborhood of the British Ambassador, and in the very heart of the fashionable set.