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...estate, made public at a probate hearing, totaled only a paltry $854,000, almost all of it in real estate and securities. Many a Chicagoan was still positive that Ed had been a millionaire, and their authority was none other than Ed's pretty, diamond-studded widow, Mrs. Margaret Kirk Kelly. Somebody, she said, had gotten into Ed's cash after he died and carried bundles of it away...
...executor of Kelly's will, ex-Sheriff Michael Mulcahy, and Kelly's tax adviser, a onetime city politico named Ed Gorman, pooh-poohed the widow's story. They had gone through the safe and the files in Ed's office only four days after his death, they said, and had found no big bundles of cash...
Marriage: Married in 1902 at 21 to Elizabeth Carter Coles. She died in 1927. In 1930, he married Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown, a widow. He has no children. One of his three stepchildren, Lieut. Allen Tupper Brown, was killed in action in Italy...
...afternoon Tedder will tour the University, and will also make a special trip to the Annex. He will inspect Holden Chapel, given to the University in the 18th century by the widow of Samuel Holden, a prominent English Dissenter...
...Hollywood, when Mrs. Clara Samossoud, daughter of Mark Twain and widow of Pianist-Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch, put her father's 3,000-volume library up for sale, some rare literary footnotes came to light. In the margin of one book, scrawled in Twain's own hand, was a note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing...