Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-04-30
WE'D TITLES ONLY
TO RUE THEM IN
DIVORCE COURTS
List of New York Heiresses
Who Have Found Sorrow In
Wedlock With Noblemen.

New York, Special: The divorce Just
, granted by a German court to the beauti-
full Baroness L0effelholz. who Formerly
was Mrs. Charles w. Shope. OF this city,
brings the total OF prominent and wealthy
women OF New York and vicinity thas
nave been forced TO put aside foreign nus
bands OF rank and station to a striking
number. The pathway OF many of them
from the altar to the divorce court has
been strewn with many thorns and rev
roses.
Not even the youth. the beauty and the
dot of $2,0OO,00 of Miss Ella aggin,
laughter OF the New York and San Fran
cisco mining millionaire, could make ros-
cate the brief married life she led as the
Countess Festetics de Talma. She and
the count were married In 1892, when the
bride was barely 18, and their divorce in
1901 was one OF the sensations OF the day.
The marriage of Miss Anna Gould TO
Count Boni de Castellane, their divorce
and her marriage TO Prince Heiie de Sag
an are matters OF but recent history. And
so recent is the separation Of Consuel0
Vanderbilt from the Duke OF Marlborough
with it's attendant settlement OF 10000
upon the duke as a periodical balm, that
1t IS not necessary to retail the story.
Miss Helen Morton, daughter Of Levi
p. Morton, started on her career as the
Duchess OF VaIencay with eclat. Her hus-
band was better known here as Count Bo-
son de Talleyrand-Perigord Their mar
riage in st. Mary's church, London, was
attended by Ambassador Choate and staff.
Troubles soon came and the honeymoon
was short and eyentfuL.
After 10 years as the wife OF the u
de Dino, Miss Elizabeth Curtis, once a
Brooklyn belle, was compelled TO divorce
him. Then the duke took another Ameri-
can wife. Mrs. Stevens. who, in turn, d.
vorced him and went to Paris to live I'M
der the name Of Nine. de Talleyrand.
Miss Evelyn Bryant, a daughter of Mrs.
J w. Mackay by a former marriage was
led to the altar by Prince Ferdinand Co
lonna di Galatro. He became a spend
thrift and when she cut him off his funds
as a means OF self-preServation, he d.
vorced her.
The marriage OF Miss May Cuyler. OF
Morristown. N. j., to Sir Philip Grey
Edgerton lost the promise OF It's begin
ming and they separated after many
stormy scenes.
No better fortune attended the mating
OF Miss Edith Van Buren, with the Count
di Castelmonardo, OF Genoa. Mrs. Burke
Roche. daughter of Frank Work, married
the Hon. James Boothby Roche, only TO
displace him for Aurel Batonyt, who In
turn was put aside. Miss Gertrude Cort-
landt Wells. who married Baron Won
Cortlandt de Graffenreid after she had
separated from Schuyler Hamilton jr., OF
New York, found necessity for a legal
termination of her noble match.
Miss Marie Schroeder, a Red Bank. N
J., heiress, closed her matrimonial ex-
periences with Count Pieri by acting as
her own detective and getting in Paris
the evidence needed to obtain a divorce.
After the marriage of Miss Frances
Cutting TO Harold Courtenay, a near rel
alive of the Earl of Devon. the husband
filed suit for divorce on the ground that
she was mentally unbalanced, and in this
manner ended another romance.
May Yohe, the actress, who may he set
down in the list OF New York girls who
married titles, was divorced from Lord
Hope to become the bride of Captain Put
nam Bradlee Strong. The sensational ca
reer OF the couple has the world for its
stage.