The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-08
$4,000 A YEAR.
10 Care FoI Insane Divorced Wife
Of Millionaire Flagler.


Ida A. Flagler, formerly the wife Of
Henry NJ. FlagleT, has been allowed by
the court $4,000 d year for her care
and maintenance, on the ground that
the present allowance of a little more
than S1,00O a month is not sufficient to
support her in the luxury that her for
mer mode of living justifies. In his
application for the allowance Of SIS, 900
a year. DR.. Macdonald said that it
was not proper that Mrs. FlagIer
should be kept in a sanitarium where
she would be compelled to come in con-
tact with other insane patients. but
should have a private establishment
OF her own, where she could have every
luxury, as he-' disease was not of such
nature as to prevent her appreciat-
ing the comforts and conveniences tat
she had been used to before she became
insane.
Mrs. FIagler is at present. under the
care Of DIT. Macdonald ia a private
ss-nitarium at PleasantviiIe, Westches-
ter county. where she Is surrounded
with every luxury that the institution
amords. She has been in the Pleasant
vile sanitarium since May q, 1900 Dr..
Macdonald. with his application, sub
mltJed an affidavit in which he said
that his change should be allowed to
live by herself in a house of her own.
just as if she was competent to take
care of herself He says that she
should be allowed to have horse. and
carriages, a retinue Of servants, in fact.
10 maintain such an establishment as
woman Of her wealth would conduct
under ordinary circumstances.
Ia addition 70 the $4,000 a year for
the maintenance and care of Mrs.
Flagler. the order provides that DR..
Macdonald shall receive 5000 a year
for his services, also that Mrs. Flag
ler's poor relatives, two brothers and a
sister, shall receive $4,000 a year TO be
deducted from their respective shares
in aer estate, as upon her death they
VIII inherit the bulk of the estate,
which is estimated to be worth at the
present time S2373,137 The income
from the estate is said to be S190,00O
year.
The two brothers and the sister are
Charles +. Sh0Urds, Stephen E.
SkOurds and Matte A. Johnson. All of
these moneys, aggregating $4,000 a
yeas, are to be paid 0ut Of the surplus
income from the Individual estate Of
Mrs. Blagler. Eugene NJ. Ashley is the
committee of her estate
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Z was said yesterday at the same
time the order Yves signed by Justice
Clarke that the three nephews. of Mrs.
Flagier. of whom no trace had been
found since they. We're committed 10
the New York Juvenile asylum in 1875.
by their father and then bound out TO
several western farmers, had been dis
covered. Two of the nephews. il is
said. are living in Iowa and the other
in the state of Washington. The three
nepheWs are George w. Taylor. Rich
ava W. Taylor and William W. Taylor.
They are the children Of Edwara w.
Taylor and Mary T.. Taylor. who was a
sister Of Mrs Flagler The mother
died in 1876 and as the father was
unable to take care Of them, he sur
rendered them TO the New York Ju-
Venile asylum.
Tbs three men had no idea that they
were relatives to the millionaire, Henry
". Flagler, until they read in the ma
pers the account OF their uacle's mar
riage Then they remembered that
they had heard that an aunt of theirs
had married a Flagler, and through
their lawyers they made inquiries in
THIS city. and learned of their relation
ship to Mrs. Flagler. and also the fact
that they would be, upon her death.
entitled to share in her large estate.
The three men are all engaged in bust
ness t.ad are in prosperous circum-
stances.
Henry N. Flagler secured a divorce
from his insane wife in Florida under
special statute passed i'm Floride
making insanity ground for divorce
He soon after remarked.