Helen Lombard

Her father, Charles Francis Carusi, was chancellor of National University and a member of the Washington DC board of education.

[5][6] In 1951, after marrying Peter Vischer, husband and wife moved to the "Habre de Venture" historic house in Port Tobacco and raised thoroughbred horses in Charles County, Maryland.

[1] In 1977, Lombard moved to the Charles County Nursing Home in La Plata, Maryland, where, known as Helen C. Vischer, she died age 81 on May 11, 1986.

[1] On March 31, 1947, conservative US Representative George Anthony Dondero called Lombard herself (by then, "Mrs. Brown") "one of the best known women in Washington, herself a scribe of wide experience, brilliant author of a book entitled Washington Waltz... [and] While They Fought.

[1] The liberal New Yorker deemed While They Fought "rather untidy" and largely "undocumented,"[11] while the conservative Human Events found it "valuable.

A white woman wearing a dark hat and a light colored dress or blouse
Helen Cassin Carusi, from a 1924 publication
Lombard was a grandchild of Stephen Cassin (here, undated Medal of Lieutenant Stephen Cassin [MET LC-83 2 380-001] in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , a hero of the First Barbary War and the War of 1812 .
US Representative George Anthony Dondero called Lombard a "scribe of wide experience"