Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-26
DR.. D. L. Kincaid Will Marry Mrs.
@. A. Russell.
CEREMONY ON THANKSGIVING DAY
Prospective Groom Is Dean Of Local
osteopathic School-Mrs. Bissell Is
PhiIanthropist of Cleveland, ohio
will Improve ottumwa Institution.

pathic practitioner in this city, will
leave tomorrow night fer Cleveland,
Ohio, where, on Thanksgiving day,
November %, DR.. Kincaid is to be
married to Mrs. Clara Alice Bissell, a
wealthy widow, twenty years his jul
Nor.
Mrs Bissell is reputed to be worth
in the nieghborhood of $5,000,000. She
is philanthropist of note, and it is
this fact that is responsible in great
part for the marriage which is to take
place Thanksgiving day, for the af-
fair contains no little romance.
DR.. Kincaid and Mrs. Bissell be-
came acquainted about year ago
while both were guests of family |
named Ballantyne, living in Minneap-
oils, Mimi, Dr. Kincaids former
home
A Romance.
Msr Bissell became so impressed !
with the doctors success in the treat |
ment of disease by osteopathy that
she saw in him an agent through |
whom she might carry out some of
her philanthropic plans. The doctor
was equally impressed with high mo-
tives and ideas of Mrs. Bissell. AL |
though the doctor is fifty-eight years
of age and his bride-to-be is only thir-
ty-eight years of age, he proposed mar
riage and was accepted.
DR.. Kincaid was interviewed by |
representative of the Courier and con-
firmed the statements made regarding
his approaching marriage. Mrs Bis
sell. according to statements made by
a friend in Minneapolis, has several
philanthropic plans which she pur-
poses executing after her marriage to
Dr. Kincaid She is determined, it is
said, that he shall not be hampered in
his scientific work by any lack of fl /.
nancial resources, but shall keep up
his work in osteopathy on larger
scale than at present.
viii Enlarge Local School.
DR.. Kincaid stated to the Courier
representative that in the near future
the Ottumwa school will be enlarged
to very considerable extent, and put
upon an equal footing with other sim
lilar institutions which are attracting
wide attention. Already the success
of the institution has been noticeable,
but with the ala of the fortune which
/ Mrs Bissell purposes putting at the
disposal of the doctor, or any plans
! for work which have hitherto been i'm
possible, will be carried out.
Mrs. BisselI Talks.
Concerning the bride-to-be and the
approaching wedding the Cleveland
Leader says:
Announcement was made in spec
tial dispatch to the Leader that Mrs.
Clara Alice Bissell. the Cleveland
widow whose interest in the murderer
Nicholas Heeney, attracted so much at
tenticn some months ago, would be
married on Thanksgiving day to DR..
D. L. Kincaid of 0ttumwa, Ia, dean of
the Ottumwa College and Infrmary of
| Osteopathy, of which his son is presi-
dent.
Mrs. Bissell was interviewed at her
apartments in the Belgrade apartment
house, corner of Wade Park and Marcy
\ avenue. She confirmed the announce
ment and said that the wedding would
take place at her home. She also said
that DR.. Kincaid would arrive in Cleve-
land the Monday before the wedding,
and that they would remain in the
city for some time afterward, later 60
ing to Iowa.
. Admired Her Efforts.
I During the trial of Nicholas Heen-
ey who murdered Railroad Gateman
Johnson with coupling pin, for which
crime Heeney is serving life sentence
at Columbus, Mrs. Bissell's attempts
to defend him aud her intense interest
in him, said to have resulted in Heen-
ley's conversion, attracted a great deal
of attention, as did also her announced
project of establishing an institution
for the reform of such young men as
, Heeney.
"'The st. Paul and, in fact all the
Minnesota newspapers printed great
deal about my work in the Heeney
case said Mrs. Bissell. and DR.. Kin
} caid wrote to me. He had been in St.
Paul at the time and became interest
ed in my work In his letters he said
, that he admired my efforts and asked
, me what | thought Of the project of
establishing an institution for the cure
of poor people suffering from diseases.
answered that l was going to estab-
lish an institution for the cure of pris-
oners suffering from consumption, the
disease that RACES so terribly in the
jails and prisons. DR., kincaid came
, here to Cleveland to see me about six
weeks ago, and he grew to think a
great deal of me.
He became much interested in my
, plan to establish sanitarium. He
said that he would do anything for
, me- We became engaged and the
) wedding is to occur on Thanksgiving
| day. DR. Kincaid is one of the most
distinguished physicians in the west,
and has high standing as doctor
> wherever he is known. He was in
t Cleveland for about week and would
have remained here longer. but l went
: to Columbus to endeavor to get a
j prisoner pardoned and he went back
! west.
The Doctors Promise.
"'He has promised to start sani-
\ tarium for me and says that he will
treat all the consumptive prisoners l
can get. He has been practicing medi-
cine for twenty-five years, and is about
tifty-tive years old.
THE homes about which so much
has been said will be established,
probably the first one at Columbus, land
later there will be chain of them all
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