Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-13
MEYER ADMITS
MRS. MAYO IS
HIS DAUGHTER
West Caldwell Merchant Says
She Was Child by His
First Wife.
HIS MOTHERS WILL
MADE HER BENEFICIARY
Former Twelfth Ward Young
Woman Believed to Have Re-
ceiyed Another Legacy.

Veriflcation Of the fact that Mrs.
Virginius j. Mayo. wife OF the New
Haven manufacturer, is former
Newark girl was obtained here to-
day. Mayo has been named as the
husband of at least four women. The
sensational disclosures in connection
with his name came out recently,
when his stenographer. Lillian Cook,
committed suicide. One of the first
discoveries was that he was main
tanning a family in Brooklyn, as
well as one in New Haven
The disclosure that Mayo's pres
ent wife at New Haven was formerly
Miss Minnie e. Meyer, OF Newark,
was told exclusively In the Evening
Star yesterday. She was also known
as Wilhelmina Meyer to her friends
at the time she lived in the Twelfth
ward, at Ferry and Magazine streets.
She was regarded as a very pretty
young woman, and at the time OF
her marriage to Mayo 1t was said by
friends here that she had married a
man almost twice as old as herself.
1t appears now that Mrs. Mayo in
herited money from both of her grand
mothers. She received legacy
said to have been at least $4,000,
under the will of her grandmother,
Mrs. Wilhemina Stengel, of this city,
ana also from the estate OF Mrs.
Minna Meyer. of West Caldwell, for
rnerly of Newark. These legacies
went, II Is said, to help finance Mayo's
factory at New Haven, where he Is
president of the Mayo Radiator Com
pany. On the Stengel side Miss Meyer
was a niece of the late Christian
Stengel, founder of the leather firm
of Stengel & Rothschild, one of the
best-known concerns OF Its kind in
the country.
Daughter by First wife.
william C. Meyer, of Bloomfield
avenue, West Caldwell, admitted to-
day that Mrs. virginius ]. Mayo. of
New Haven. is his daughter. After
driving several reporters away from
Meyer finally said to the Evening
Star reporter who presisted in his
efforts to learn the facts:
Yes. she is my daughter by my
first wife but I don't see why this
family here should be drawn into
this NATTER He refused to discuss
the question further.
When first questioned this week In
regards to his children, Mr.. Meyer
stated that he had but three
daughters and one son all of which
resided in West Caldwell. but Is was
learned through other sources later
in the evening, that he had three
daughters and five sons all living in
that town.
Through a former chum Of Mrs.
Mayo 1t was learned today that
Mayo first met Miss Meyer in this
city. She had friend by the name
of Alfred Peterson. who, as told in
The Star yesterday, sought to marry
her. Peterson, 1t later developed,
had a family In Denmark. Miss
Meyer loaned Peterson money and
afterward had him arrested because
of his failure to return the loan.
During her friendship with Peter
son the former Miss Meyer visited
the house of o friend in the Twelfth
ward. where Peterson frequently
called. On one Of these occasions he
brought Mayo with him. Miss Meyer
happened to come In and Mayo was
introduced to her. After that time
Mayo appeared to be first in her af-
1ections. The break with Peterson
soon followed and he was arrested in
Brooklyn.
Further verifcation of the fact that
Mrs. Mayo. of New Haven, was Miss
Meyer, a Newark girl. before she be-
came one of the wives of the much
married man whose story was made
known through the tragic death of
Miss Cook, was found yesterday in
the records of the surrogate OF Essex
county.
The will of Minna Meyer, of Cald-
well, who died April o. 1907, contains
the following clause: II give and be-
queakh to my granddaughter, Minnie
Mayo, formerly Meyer, a certain bond
and mortgage given by Frederick
Haber and wife to me for $1,000,
which has been reduced to SO 200. and
which has been assigned by me to her
to become her property upon my
DEATH
Mrs. Meyers will provided that
$4,000 should go to her son, William
c. Meyer. and $1,000 each to eight
grandch 'ldren. The will was drawn
about six weeks before Mrs Meyers
death. and was witnessed by j. II.
McCracken. a lawyer in the Globe
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