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Imogene was in her late twenties when she divorced her first husband, Albert W. Holmes. The couple had one daughter, Ruth Holmes, who lived with her mother in Evanston (on the north side of Chicago's city line).
The marriage ended in divorce in 1920 after Remus began an affair with his legal secretary, Augusta Imogene Holmes (née Brown). Holmes was a young divorcée with a young daughter, Ruth. Remus and Holmes were married in Newport, Kentucky, in June 1920.
In fact, George had fallen hard for Augusta Imogene Brown Holmes, a lonely housewife from Evanston, Illinois who wanted to find a way out of a long marriage that she considered a dead end. Beautiful, young, and as eager for wealth and fame as he had become, Imogene brought Remus an aura of excitement and vitality.
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In an effort to legislate morality in the United States, federal and state governments passed and ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919 (the Volstead Act), outlawing the manufacturing, sale, barter, transport, import, export, and distribution of intoxicating liquor. The life story of George Remus (born November 13, 1876 in G...
George Remus was born in Germany on November 13, 1876, to Frank and Maria Remus. He had one sister, Frances, born in Germany and a younger brother, Herman, born in Chicago. In 1913 Herman was accidentally struck in the head with a brick and disabled. He was sent to Kankakee State Asylum for the insane in Illinois and died there a year later. When R...
In the midst of the anti-German hysteria created by World War I that led to riots and attempts to eradicate traces of German culture in cities with large German-American populations such as Chicago, Cincinnati and Milwaukee, the movement for a federal prohibition law increased dramatically. The fact that German-Americans owned the majority of brewe...
George Remus, Imogene, and his adopted daughter Ruth lived in palatial splendor. Remus paid $90,000 ($979,000 in 2010$) for a large mansion at 825 Hermosa Avenue, located in the western Cincinnati neighborhood of Price Hill. The property had formerly been owned by the Lackman family, who had operated a brewery in Cincinnati for several decades prio...
Using forged liquor withdrawal permits obtained from Jess Smith, George Remus shipped 3,200 barrels and 18,000 gallons of liquor for “medical purposes” from one of his distilleries to his wholesale drug companies between June and August 1921. Most of the liquor was diverted to Remus’ Death Valley farm for distribution into the bootleg trade. These ...
Although his rise was as rapid as his fall, George Remus truly deserves the title “King of the Bootleggers.” According to his adopted daughter Ruth Holmes Remus, her father was the self-appointed monarch of the illegal booze trade. According to her, his coronation took place when Imogene, Remus and she were visiting the grave site of President Theo...
Jan 7, 2021 · Then Remus met a woman who reveled in drama as much as he did—Augusta Imogene Holmes. Both of them were married at the time, but they divorced—Imogene finalizing hers after embellishing the truth to the press, Remus after being caught with Imogene years later—and married in 1920.
Jun 13, 2022 · Augusta Imogene (Imogene) Remus formerly Brown aka Holmes. Born 15 Sep 1884 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling (s) unknown] Wife of George Remus — married 26 Jun 1920 in Newport, Campbell, Kentucky, United States. [children unknown]
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While in prison, Imogene Holmes (Remus's wife) conspired with Franklin Dodge, a federal agent, who had been working the Remus case, so that the two them took control of her husband's fortune, selling off various properties and hiding the proceeds from Remus while suing him for divorce.
