Daisy Breaux Calhoun (1863–1949) was an American socialite, hostess, and social leader.
Biography
Early life
Margaret Rose Anthony Julia Josephine Catherine Cornelia Donovan O'Donovan was born on March 12, 1863, in Philadelphia to Cornelius MacCarty Moore Donovan O'Donovan, who had served in the British Army, and Julia Josephine Marr. When Cornelius died the family moved to New Orleans where Julia married Gustave Breaux. Margaret became known as Daisy Breaux. She attended the Georgetown Visitation Convent in Washington.
Marriages
Daisy Breaux was married three times. Her first husband, Andrew Simonds Jr., was a banker in South Carolina, and she moved to Charleston, South Carolina, to live with him after the two were married in 1885. The couple lived in Villa Margherita, which was built in the early 1890s for them. An obituary reported that Daisy had designed the home. The home was sometimes called "The White House of the South" and three presidentsTheodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, and William Howard Taftvisited it.
