Anne, Baroness Dőry de Jobaháza was an American heiress and actress who married into the European aristocracy.
Early life
Anne was born on August 25, 1868 at Ellerslie Hall in Edgemoor, near Wilmington, Delaware. She was a daughter of oil magnateJames Price II and Sarah M. Price. Her brother, Samuel Harlan Price, was the wife of Susan Coleman Wells. She was one of five sisters, who all married into the European nobility, which included Margaret Plater Price, Susan Harlan Price, Matilda Louise Price, and Sallie Mae Price. Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Tatnall Price and Matilda Louise Price, and her maternal grandparents were Susan Preston Harlan and Samuel Harlan Jr., of Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., shipbuilders in Wilmington. Harlan and Hollingsworth was acquired by Bethlehem Steel in 1904, although her grandfather Harlan had died in 1883 in Vienna. Anne and her five sisters all were "beautiful and charming belles of Wilmington and Philadelphia, where they made their debuts." They spent a year in Europe with their parents, arriving in Vienna in the early 1880s. Matilda was the only daughter who ever returned to America. Reportedly, every time their father would return from his trip back to Philadelphia to manage the family business, one of his daughters would be engaged.
On February 4, 1904, she married Hungarian magnate Baron József Döry de Jobaháza in Mihályi. He was a son of Baron Nicholas Miklós von Dőry de Jobaháza, Sr. and Baroness Mária von Horváth de Szürnyeg. Together, they were the parents of four daughters, including:
Mária Jozefa Cecelia Ann Wilhelm Dőry, who died during World War II.
In September 1904, her father died, also in Stuttgart. Anne and her husband's home was in Schloss Hody bei Galanta, Pressburger Comitate, Hungary. In 1910, they acquired Schloss Johnsdorf in Szepes County, Hungary. In 1945, after the Russians pillaged Schloss Johnsdorf and carried off their daughter Mária, Anne and her husband fled to Austria where she died a month later, aged 80, on April 24, 1945 from "hardships suffered under the Russian occupation of Austria." Their daughter died three days later. Anne left her entire estate to her the Baron Döry-Jobaháza, except for $750 that was directed towards the care of her first husband's grave in Warmbrunn, Schleisen, Germany. József died April 14, 1954 in Johnsdorf.
