Word: kearsley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. William Roth Wister, son of Author Owen Wister (The Virginian), and Miss Frances Kearsley Mitchell, granddaughter of Edward Townsend Stotesbury...
...York Herald-Tribune: MITCHELLS HOME. Mr. and Mrs. John Kearsley Mitchell and their two children, Miss Frances Mitchell and John, Jr., returned yesterday by the White Star liner Majestic after a five months tour of France, Italy and Egypt. Mr. Mitchell was an acquaintance of Dorothy Keenan and brought into investigation of her mysterious death. Mrs. Mitchell is a daughter of E.T. Stotesbury...
Riding on a liner was certainly an indiscretion on the part of John Kearsley Mitchell. The ship news reporter was a trial which he brought on himself by so doing. But incidentally he applied an interesting test to several Manhattan newspapers. He showed how far they were prepared to go in resurrecting a dead and largely unmerited notoriety which he had acquired some months earlier...
...York American (picture on inside page): " 'MR. MARSHALL' RETURNS?John Kearsley Mitchell, of Philadelphia, noted as the mysterious 'Mr. Marshall' of the 'Dot' King slaying case of last year and also of eminent social position and family connections, returns from European sojourn...
...fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage of the famous Stotesbury family of high society, and a millionaire. He is the ' Jack' of the fervent love letters...