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...Shake, Shake, Shake." It was Grandma's sister Celestia who first suggested that painting might be fun for her. Grandma tried, and found it was. "I painted for pleasure, to keep busy and to pass the time away," she recalls, "but I thought no more of it than of doing fancy work...
Sued for Divorce. Mrs. Utica Celestia Beecham; by goateed Sir Thomas Beecham, noted English conductor currently directing in Seattle; in Idaho City. Married in London in 1903, he said they had not lived together since...
...knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company...
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