Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (July 6, 1864 – December 17, 1947) was a philanthropist and socialite who was the first American woman to be awarded the Croix de Guerre and Legion d'honneur by France in 1917 for turning her Château d'Annel into a 300-bed hospital during World War I. Julia Hunt Catlin was born on July 6, 1864, to Julius Catlin (1833–1893) and Frances Helen Hunt (b.

[3] Her aunt, Hannah Maria Catlin,[4] married Benjamin K. Phelps, the New York County District Attorney.

[7][8] She fled for England after the German army had made progress towards Paris, but ended up returning after they had retreated.

He was Vice President of the American Trading Company, a directory of Jefferson Bank, and a senior member of Catlin & Co., a dry goods firm.

[18] On February 15, 1911, she married Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1867–1927) at the King's Weigh House Church in London.

[19] In 1918, she married General Emile Adolphe Taufflieb (d. 1938),[20] who commanded France's 37th Army Corps and was a member of the French Senate.