The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-01-07
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MARY THURMAN, ONCE A SOCIETY
BELLE, NOW 4 bonanza QUEEN.

BELLE, NOW A BONANZA QUEEN.
She i. the Youngest Daughter OF the "o,d
Roman" tho Late Allen @. Thurman.
Her Remarkable LIE md Curious Mar
riaCcs.
Once tho hcllo OF Washington and now
the bona "a queen of Colorado mining
camp, Mary Thurman, the youngest
daughter OF the "Old Roman, tho lGto
Allen G.. Thurman, has had ono Of tho
most romant ntie~careers Of any woman In
America.
Mary Thurman has boon for the last FIVE
years a social exile from tho fashionable
circles of Washington and New York,
where her brillianoy, originality and indie
pendence ard her fathers national reputc
formerly gaYo her prestige and position
While I'm Washington she made what was
supposed 90 be brilliant marriage, but n
divorce followed, and she went west 20 san
Diego md took up her abode al Tia Juan
ma, on the Mexican line
Since then size has medc two estraor-
dinary marriages, and when she visited
her old homo ~ Columbus, o., shortly be
fcre her mothcr's death, her father turned
he from the door.
News has just como from the mining
camp Of picacho, near Yuma. that fortune
has played the gamo into Mary Thurman's
hands again, and that after years OF luck
less fate 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 n vein
Of orc that promises TO make her "A bonanza
queen.
The romance is enhanced by tho fact
that her find was made within few days
OF the brilliant marriage in London of her
first husband Lieutenant Commander
William ; Cowles, n naval attAchc OF tho
United States. to the helress, Miss Roose-
velt sister OF James r. Roosevelt, the sec
rotary OF the nitcd States embassy.
Mary Thurman was her fathers fayorit0
child in her girlhood. She was named aft.
er her mother. who was u Nslss Mary Dunn
of woll known Lexington (ky.) family,
and she had much OF her mothers social
charm, with the mental endUwments of
her father Her sister is the wife of ex
Governor Mccormick OF Arizona, after
ward assistant secretary of the treasury In
Washington and now in New York.
Until the domestic difficulties which led
TO Mary Thurnan's divorce from Lieuten-
ant Cowlos the two sisters lived at Rich
mond Hill, near Jamaica, y. Y, in houses
presented TO them by their father Mrs
Mccormick still lives In New York the
| greater part Of the year, and from there
| was summoned Co the deathbed of Judge
| Thurman few weeks ago.
Mary Thurman presided over her IA
thers house in Washington so graciously
| that IL became a center OF social life dur
ing his terms in the senate although Mrs
Thurman had little taste for gayoties
| Mrs. MoCormiok's house adjoned her fl
| thers in Washington, and the two man
| sions were thrown together when either
Ravo q largo entertainment. The two Sis
| ters one the wit ana the other the beauty
were soon leaders In tho younger social set
Mary Thurman has "a curious rel gious
| vein in her character and narrowly es-
| capped entering nunnery in her early
youth but tho counsels of her family pre-
| vailed against her religious zeal She was
| educated in tho Ursuline convent, Brown
county, o., and, though she never became
member Of the Catholic church she was
regular attendant at the cathedral on
| Broad street, Columbus.
Her marriage to Lieutenant Cowles took
| place with great eolat about 10 years ago.
| He was then in command of the Dispatch,
\ Il sinlIl Nessel WHICH ub INV
ton navy yard and was used for pleasure
purposes. Their married life was an un-
happy one, and by mutual agreement Mrs.
| Cowles secured divorce through an Ohio
| court. She then went west, and while
| travelling in southern California mot and
| married a dashing young adyepturer,
| Thomas Scott Clifford, who was born OF
English parents in Spain, and, instead of
castles in CASTLE, proved to have a wife
| and two little children. Mary Thurman
| then procured second divorce and aston
ished her friends by marrying Bug Holli-
day, tho noted baseball player.
She has lived wild, adventurous life
| for the past few years and is known In all
the mining camps OF southern California
| Always promo to enthusiasms, she caught
the prospecting fever, and her long, lonely
walks among the hills have made her n
familiar figure Of the region.
What the new bonanza queen will do
with her fortune should it develop as rich
ly as IL promises is interesting her friends
IL Is scarcely probable that she will core
TO como east 60 the scene of her social tri-
umphs and misfortunes, but in the rolo OF
bonanza queen all things are poHsiblc.-
Now York World.