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Died. Mrs. Ida A. Flagler, 81, divorced wife of the late Henry M. Flagler (died 1913) one of the original Standard Oil organizers, the great developer of southern Florida (by means of his Seaboard Railway, his hotels); after being a patient at a Central Valley sanatorium (N. Y.) since 1897; at the sanatorium. Estimated estate: $15,000,000, increased in 30 years by Standard Oil cash and stock dividends from an original (1901) $1,000,000 trust fund...
Citizen Alfred Emanuel Smith and friends were occupying the penthouse on Palm Beach's Whitehall Hotel (home of the late Henry M. Flagler). Mornings he went to the Breakers Hotel beach to swim in the ocean. His figure in a bathing suit, his startling ability to squirt a stream of Atlantic water through his front teeth several feet into the air while he floated on his back stirred the interest of fashionable folk. Afternoons he played golf at the Everglades club with John Jacob Raskob...
...Cleveland commission merchants, opened a refinery as a sideline. With them was Samuel Andrews, the technical member of the combination and, later, William Rockefeller, John's younger brother. In 1865 Mr. Rockefeller bought out Mr. Clark (for $72,500). Needing capital for expansion, Mr. Rockefeller went to Henry Morrison Flagler, who, from supplying grain to a distillery owned by Stephen V. Harkness, had married a Harkness niece and thus become associated with Cleveland's then richest man. Through Mr. Flagler was arranged a Rockefeller-Harkness meeting, from which Rockefeller & Andrews became Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, the Flagler partnership representing Harkness capital...
...American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago...
...adapting his learning to U. S. limitations. In the firm of McKim, Mead & White, where he spent his apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came and the rirm was established...