The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09
Cen. SICKLES after Cash
The Veteran Desires Partition Of His
Fathers Estate.
A BIG SUIT At NEW ROCHELLE
The Other Heirs Arc Three Step. Sistc RS
Who Had pcculiarities of Their
Own-Eloped with Com.
monp!acc Men.

By the United Press
New York, Feb S.-General Daniel Z.
Sickles has just brought suit at New
Rochelle for the partition of his
fathers large estate. The heirs are the
general himself, who is the only child
of his fathers first marriage, and the
three children of his fathers second
marriage-Mrs. George Mead, Mrs.
Thomas Quinn and Mrs. James Din
ham.
1t is a friendly suit, and the bringing
of 1t at this time Is caused by the COM
ing of age of Mrs. Dinham, the youngest
Of the heirs. The amount involved Is
about S25O,000, invested In twenty par
cells Of land. including 900 acres at New
Rochelle.
Old George Sickles. the father Of the
general. had three daughters by his
housekeeper, Mrs. Sawyer, a widow.
When he was 81 years old he married
her in great state in New York city,
the three daughters, thus legitimatized,
acting as bridesmaids.
Their Matrimonial Ventures.
These three had peculiarities Of their
own. Roma, the eldest, eloped with
George Mead, butcher boy, the son
of the Sickles family's washwoman.
Pcrie, the second daughter eloped with
Thomas Quinn, almost as obscure as
Mr.. Mead. Last of all came Alta, elop-
ing at 16 with Jimmie Dinham, bar
tender.
General Sickles has never had any
thing to do with his stepmother's
daughters, nor have his children by his
dead first wife, nor his children by his
second wife, who lives in Spain, any
acquaintance with them. One Of these
children, by the way, eloped and mar
ried a young man named Mccarthy, in
Paris.
A good part of the property has been
held ever since Mrs. Sawyer Sickles
died, few years after her husband.
She was thirty-three years younger
than her husband.
The heirs agreed that Mrs. Sawyer
Sickles should have the income Of the
property until she died, and that as
soon as she was dead and the younger
of her children were of age, they would
divide the estate by friendly suit.
A Washington special says: General
Sickles said tonight that his New Ro-
chelle suit was purely a private matter,
about which he did not care to talk.
Wouldn't Stand Any Nonsense.
When the Marquis de Louville accost-
ed the doughty General Sickles recently
in the lobby of the New York Academy
of Music with the query as to whether
the latter questioned the validity Of his
title, the way in which the General
threw aside his crutches and hoped
toward wall where, with his back
against it, he claimed to be on an equal
footing with any man in fisticuffs en-
counter, few would have thought him
to be man over 60.
He is one of the best preserved gentle
men in New York, though he has had a
busy and eventful life. He was law
yer and member of the New York
| legislature, and served three terms in
congress before the war. He was
secretary Of the legation to England
under Buchanan. Was tried and ac-
quilted for the murder of Key, in Wash
ington. Raised a brigade at the out.
break of the war, and served with dis.
tinction throughout that conflict until
the loss of his leg at Gettysburg. He
was minister to Spain in 1869.