The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-03-03
Brooks House Resident Asks
for $500, O,0OO-Fjtts Re- :
tanned by Her
DIVORCE SOUGHT BY
MRS. BARBARA FISK
Boston Woman Formerly Lived in
Woodstock-Husband Son of Mil
Honaire New York Banker-Papers
Not Yet Filed With County Clerk.

Demanding 100000 alimony. Mrs.
Barbara Knight Cobb Fisk of Back
Bay, who has been a resident at the
Brooks House several months. has star
tied Boston society anew by seeking a
divorce from augustus r. Fisk. She
charges her husband with serious Of
fences and with gross and confirmed
habits Of intoxication.
Mrs. Fisk has retained Attorney
Clarke G. Fits Of this town as her
counsel, and il is expected that the III
yorce case viii be tried in the Windham
county court, but no papers have been
filed in the county clerks Office.
Prominent in Society.
The couple are prominent both IN
New England and New York. Mrs. Fisk
being the widow of Horace G. Cobb or
| the Back Bay. ana her husband Il son
of Charles Joel Fisk. the millionaire
New York banker.
Fisk and his first wife, formerly Miss
| Edith Ceilings, daughter OF the Stand
/ ard Oil company 5 representative in
/ Cincinnati. made their home on farm
IT Woodstock. VI. They were consid-
cred an ideal couple, but after a com
/ paratiyely short time Mrs. Fisk brought
/ suit for divorce and was awarded i
/ decree.
It was in Woodstock that Fisk met
Mrs. Cobb. Young and wealthy wild
ow. whose husband had died sud
denly. She was q daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Edwin A. Knight. formerly of
Vermont, who had moved TO Newton.
Mass, where she met and married Mr.
Cobb.
Fisk and the Young widow were in
each other ; company almost constant
II and walked and rode together daiIy
Ia 1912 they decided 10 marry. but a.
Governor Fletcher was about to sion
q law making tne rcmarriage Of di-
yorccd person under certain conditions
hi"amous. Mrs. Cobb and Fisk decided
to 90 to Boston for the ceremony.
Rector Would Not oficiate.
Arrangements were made to-have the
ceremony performed at King Z Chapel
but because of the notoriety attached
70 the ease. Rev. Howard y. Brown.
rector of the church, declined to marry
, the compile
While group Of friends and rela
tives waited outside Kings Chapel,
:. Fisk ana Mrs Cobb sought ont Clerk
. ingalls,. at the Suffolk county court
| house, and were made husband and
; wife.
e Mr.. and Mrs. Fisk at once went "a
e Woodstock and made their home on his
t -50-acre estate. where they declared
+ they would lead the well-known simpl,
c life.
Soon after the wedding. however
n Fisk Is said TO have developed habit.
t not in accordance with his announce
0 mcnt. On several occasions, it i.
! said. Mrs. Fisk was notified that he
e presence WAS required in New Yorl
= following the disappearance Of her hus
band from Woodstock.
Wife Came to Brattleboro.
In July, 1919, Mr.. and Mrs. FisI
parted, and she came to Brattleboro a a,
established place OF residence at tn
Brooks House. In October Fisk wa
placed in DR.. Lambert : exclusive SAM
/. tarium in New York. and at the sam
time Mrs. Fisk, Frustrated by tn
events OF the preceding months. en-
r tered an institution for nefvous trou
n hles in Brooklne
3 Mrs. Fisk remained in the Brooklin
!. institution two months. and her hus
N band stayed in the New York san
i tarium until few weeks ago, whe
he left for a Texas ranch with q
X attendant.
~ Mrs. Fisk maintains home nea
II. Boston for her 11-year-old son, Wi
n. liam 7. Cobb 2d. She goes frequentl
ee TO visit her son. who has cook, maid
Pc a governess and a butler to atten
H. him.
n. Mr.. Fisk j. a Mayfiower descendal
Y. and his family has been prominer
n: financially for many years in Ne
INV York.