Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family in the glare of a social ideology, the practice seems simplistic and self-serving. There is, for example, her use of the familiar tale about the founding of the Bingham fortune. Grandfather Robert, "the Judge," bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time and again, Bingham prefers the rumor. It not only makes better gossip, but it fits in with her male-bashing thesis. It also allows...
...Bingham fortune, in fact, was newly minted, and under suspicious circumstances at that. After Barry's mother died, his father married Mary Lily Flagler, 49, the widow of Standard Oil Tycoon Henry Flagler and reputedly the country's richest woman. An alcoholic who may have been addicted to morphine, Flagler died less than a year later. Flagler's relatives suspected foul play, but Brenner argues persuasively that the only certainty is that Bingham was "dangerously irresponsible toward a very sick woman...
Allman, a Florida-born journalist who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...
...railroad begat hotels, including, naturally enough, Flagler's Royal Palm. By 1896 the city of Miami was incorporated, and, shortly after, racial segregation became a fact of real estate development. Blacks found themselves on the other side of Flagler's track with their backs to the Everglades; they would not return to the shoreline until 1945, when the municipality granted them use of a small beach accessible by boat. Despite their significant numbers (about 20% of the city's population of 372,000, compared with upwards of 60% for Hispanics), Miami's blacks get a small part in these books...
Florida A & M 102, Flagler...