Early Life
Isabella Selmes was born March 22, 1886, the daughter of Tilden Russell Selmes and Martha "Patty" Macomb Flandrau. Tilden Selmes was general counsel for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Patty Flandrau was the daughter of Charles Eugene Flandrau, a Minnesota judge and politician; it was at the farm of Patty's maternal aunt Julia Dinsmore in Kentucky that Isabella was born. Tilden Selmes was the co-owner of a ranch in North Dakota with Theodore Roosevelt, and Isabella spent her early life on that ranch. After the untimely death of her father in 1895, Isabella and her mother lived with various members of her mother's family in Kentucky, Minnesota, and New York. Isabella attended schools in New York City, where she met and became lifelong friends with Roosevelt's niece, Eleanor.
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