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May 9, 2010 · LIFESTYLE. Meet Flagler's three wives. KAREN HARVEY. The curiosity about the lives of the three wives of Henry Morrison Flagler is manifested in the myriad of questions by visitors and...
Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867–1917) was an American philanthropist and heiress who became notorious when she married one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler, inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died under suspicious circumstances at age fifty.
Jul 24, 2021 · Flagler’s first wife died in 1881 with her faithful husband and her nurse, Alice Shourds, by her side. Shourds, who was 35, had tried unsuccessfully to be an actress before turning to nursing....
- Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York, to Reverend and Mrs. Isaac Flagler. At the age of 14, after completing the eighth grade, Flagler moved to Bellevue, Ohio where he found work with his cousins in the grain store of L.G.
- In 1852 Henry Flagler became a partner in the newly organized D. M. Harkness and Company with his half-brother, Dan Harkness. The following year, on November 9, he married Mary Harkness.
- In 1862, Henry Flagler and his brother-in-law, Barney York, founded the Flagler and York Salt Company, a salt mining business in Saginaw, Michigan. When the Civil War ended however, salt, which had been in heavy use as preservative by the Union Army, was no longer in high demand and Flagler and York Salt Company collapsed.
- The next year Flagler re-entered the grain business as a commission merchant and paid back the money he had borrowed for the salt business. During this time, Flagler became acquainted with John D. Rockefeller, who worked as a commission agent with Hewitt and Tuttle for the Harkness Grain Company.
Flagler's mother was Elizabeth Caldwell Harkness Flagler, Isaac's third wife and a widow who had a stepson, Stephen V. Harkness, and a son, Daniel M. Harkness, from her marriage to deceased widower David Harkness of Milan, Ohio. Flagler attended local schools through eighth grade.
Aug 23, 2017 · A century after Henry Flagler’s widow died, questions remain about her death - Fort Myers Florida Weekly. August 23, 2017. BY STEPHANIE MURPHY-LUPO. Florida Weekly Correspondent. The story of Marly Lily who was once married to Henry Flagler, left, and then Robert Bingham, below, is mysterious, especially regarding the details of her death.
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Jun 15, 2012 · Flagler married his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan, a high-society lady played to the hilt by Dianna Jacoby. He was 71, she 34. In 1902, the couple moved into their new Palm Beach estate,...
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