The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-01
cHEsTER's INDIAN eRIDEf
Author Said to Have Married Minnie
Cornelius


Cornelius
Milwaukee, Wis, April 30.-Last
week it was announced that Minnie
Cornelius, an Indian Princess, a
beauty with a brilliant mind, known
in America as the Indian joan of
Arc, had been married to a Seymour,
Wis, real estate man named George
r. Kellogg.
Monday at Green Bay 1t developed
that George r. Kellogg is the real
name of George Randolph Chester,
author of Get Rich Quick Walling
ford"
The news was made public by Jon
as Cornelius, a brother of the bride.
and his sister, who returned to
Green Bay after visit to Chicago,
where the wedding party went after
the ceremony at Stevens Point, Wis,
for an elaborate wedding dinner.
The brother and sister of Miss Cor
nelius live at the Oneida reservation,
about 1870 miles north of Milwaukee,
fifteen miles from Green Bay, and the
Cornelius family is the last of the
race of chiefs which once ruled the
Seven Nations, the Cornelius family
being the descendants of the old To
tenn family of Oneidas, who came
here from New York State in the
early part of the last century.
| George Randolph Chester in marry
ing Miss Cornelius may become tech
nically squaw man, but in his bride
he has a girl worth fortune in her
own right, one whose literary ability
has been proved by successful stories
and dramas and who is a graduate
of the University of California
Mrs. Chester is the niece of the ia.
nous old Jonathan Cornelius, lay
reader at the Episcopal mission on
the Oneida Reservation, who for
fifty years has every Sunday translat
ed from English into Oneida the
words OF priest at the mission.
Educated at the mission the Indian
princess went to Grafton Hall, Fond
du Lac, an aristocratic preparatory
school for girls, under the patronage
of Bishop Grafton. Later she went
to California and since then has beer
engaged in a propaganda for the up
lift OF her race She has realized
since childhood that the future hope
OF the American Indian lies in be
coming adapted to the ways OF the
white and all her books and plays
have been written with this in mind
The romance involving the white
author is part of the trip Miss Cor
nelius took to Europe to earn money
to aid her less talented red brother
She danced and read before king
and emperors, and met Chester II
Paris.
The romances date back four years
and It is now recalled that there wal
some surprise in northern Wisconsin
last winter when IL was found tina
Chester was iR the State II was SUI
posed that he was collecting materia
for new story. but the story II nov
develops, was that of his own re
nance.
George Randolph Chester's frs
wife, whom he married in Davenport
Ia. in 1895, got an introductory de
cree OF divorce on October II, 1911
She accused her husband OF miscor
. duct with woman in the Gainsbor
Studios. II was stipulated in the dc
cree that Chester should pay his wifi
$1,000 year for her own support AM
$4,000 a year for their two children
George Randolph, Jr., and Robert Fa
Chester. The testimony was hear
before referee. The Chesters ha
been living apart for some time bC
fore suit was brought.
I On November / Mr.. Chester return
ed from Paris with a second Mr.,
Chester, whom he had married on IN
day after the first Mrs. Chester &c
+ her interlocutory decree The Sc,
J. ond wife was Lillian Deremo.
widow, who had been named as core
pondent in the divorce complain
Upon landing here Mr.. Chester wa
u perturbed when he learned that IN
divorce decree was not final. In HI
d excitement he withdrew his al
nouncement of his marriage in Pari
l. but after his lawyer, Gordon Gordo
of 1876 Broadway, had assured hil
= that he was not liable to arrest Il
' bigamy he withdrew the withdraw,
n and admitted that Lillian Derem
d was really Mrs. Chester.
a Supreme Court Justice Guy signe
a final decree of divorce for the FIR
Mrs. Chester on December 2. In n
I month that had elapsed since his r
turn from Europe Mr.. Chester ha
l. left the city. George NJ. Cohan an
= other friends said last night IN,
they had no idea where Mr. Chest,
was. Lawyer Gordon said he ma
never heard of Minnie Cornelius an
did not believe that Mr. Chester hs
u married again.