Middletown transcript., 1896-01-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
DAUGHTER OF THE "oLD ROMAN"
MAKES A RICH STRIKE IN
THE WEST

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DAUGHTER OF THE toLD ROMAN"
MAKES RICH STRIKE IN
THE WEST.
/ O.ce the belle of Washington and
now the bonanza queen of a Colorado
mining camp, Mary Thurman, the
youngest daughter of the "Old Roman, .
the late Allen G.. Thurman, has had
one of the most romantic careers of
Eany woman in America.
/ Mary Thurman has b en- for the last
five years social exile from the FASH
ionable circles of Washington and New
Yolk, where her brilliancy, originality
and independence, and her fathers ma
tional repute formerly gave her pres
tige and position. While in Washing
ton she made what was supposed to be
a brilliant marriage, but divorce fol-
lowed and she went West TO San Diego
and took up her abode at Tia Juanna,
on the Mexican line.
Since then she has made two extraor-
dina-y MARI ages, and whtn 81 9 visited
her old home at Columbus, o., shortly
before her mothers death, her father
turned her from his door.
News has just come from the mining
camp of Picacho, near Yuma, that for
tune has played the game into Mary
Thurman's hands again, and that after
years of luckless ia q she will probably
become one of the richest women on
the Pacific Coast. She has made the
richest strike known in any of the desert
camps for years, and while prospecting
in the hills found vein of ore that
promises to make her bonanza queen.
The romance is enhanced by the fact |
that her find was made within few
days of the brilliant marriage in London |
other first husband, Lieutenant Com
mander William S. Cowles, naval at
tache Of the United States, to the heir
ess, Miss Roosevelt, sister of James
r. ROOSEVELT the Secretary or the |
United Embassy.
Mary Thurman was her fathers fav-
orite child in her girlhood. She was
named after her mother, who was
Miss Mary Dunn, Of well known
Lexington, KY, family, and she had
much Of her mothers social charm,
with the mental endowments of her
father. Her sister is the wife of ex-
Gov. Mccormick, Arizona, afterwards
A ssistant Secretary of the Treasury in
Washington and 1ow in New York.
Until the domestic difficulties which
led 20 Mary Thurman's divorce from
Lieut.. Cowles, the two sistes lived at
Richmond Hill, near Jamaica, L. l. in
houses presented to them by their
father. Mrs. Mccormick still lives in
New York the greater part of the year.
and from here was summoned to the
death bed of Judge Thurman a few
weeks ago.
Mary Thurman presided over her
fathers house in Washington, so grac-
iously that it became centre of social
life during his terms in the Senate.
although Mrs. Thurman had little taste
for gayeties. Mrs. McCormick's house
adjoined her fathers in Washington,
and the two mansions were thrown to-
gether when either gave large ent ter-
tainment. The two sisters, one the
wit and the other the beauty, were
soon leaders in the younger social set.
Mary Thurman had curious relig-
ious vein in her character, and mar
rowiy escaped entering a nunnery in
her early youth but the counsels Of her
family prevailed against her religious
Zeal. She was educated in the Ursu-
ine Convent, Brown County, Ohio,
md though she never became men, {
Der Of the Catholic Church, she was a
regular attendant at the Cathedral on
Broad street, Columbus.
Her marriage to Lieut.. Cowles took 6
place with great eclat about sixteen
years ago. He was then iu command
If the Despatch, small vessel VIII ich !
ay at the Washington Navy-Yard, {
nd was used for pleasure purposes.
their married life was an unhappy
me, and by mutual agreement Mrs.
Jewles secured direlce through an :
)hio court. She then went West and :
fhile travelling In Southern California I
net al married dashmg young ad- :
enturer-T Thomas Scott Clifford : ho !,
as born Of English parents in Spain :
lad, instead of castles in CsstIle, :,
loved 10 have a wifeald Two children. =,
Larry Thurman then proc ,red Sec "
I'D divorce and astonisIIed her friends
= marrying .Bug'' Holiday, the
Died baseball player.
She has lived u wild, adventurous
fe for the past few years, and is known q
] all the mining camps of Southern :.
aIifurnia. Always prone to enthu5ia-
ns. she caught the prospecting fever tc
q | her lonely walks among the hills
ave made her familiar fgure of the g
gion. m
WHAT the bonanza queen will do
tth Ler fortune, should it develop as hs
cil ly as it promises, is interesting her
lends. It is scarcely probable that m
. will care to come East to the scene or
her socialtriumphs and misf0rtnnes; ne
It in The role Of q bonanza queen ali en-
ings are possible. "l
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