The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-06
Fiji STILLMAN
WEEDS HEIR Of
M'CORM|CKS
Divorce Ends Stormy Life
With Banker; Marriage
Follows Closely.
BRIDE IS So; MATE 81
Court Clashes of Pair Were
Sensations for Years
in New York.
BRIDE is So; MATE 81
BY United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, June 6.-The tenn
pestuous marital life which has
taken the James A. StiHmans
through one court after another
over period of eleven years, def
nltely was at an end today, wit hthe
signing Of final divorce decree and
the marriage of Mrs. Anne Uurqu-
hart (Fif1) Stilman to Fowler Nc
Cormick, son Of Harold F.. McCor-
mick Of Chicago and grandson of
John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H.
Mccormick.
Mrs. Stillman's divorce and her
marriage to Mccormick, twenty
years her junior, were as surprising
and as unexpected as her recent
reconciliation with Stillman, after
fiVe years of court litigation,
charges and counter charges of in
fidelity which brought to light the
most intimate details Of their mar
ried life.
At that time Mrs. Stillman had a
divorce action pending, but she
dropped this suddenly and sailed
with Stillman, banker and financial
leader, on the Olympic on Feb. 6,
1925.
MarrieS Younger Man
Joseph Morschauser, supreme
court justice, signed the final de-
crees at New City, N. Y, and it
was filed at the county clerks Of
flee at Poughkeepsie Friday.
Mrs. Stillnan and Mccormick
were married at the home of John
D. Rockefeller Sr. in Pocantico
Hills, N. Y, Thursday afternoon by
Justice Graham A. Witschieff Of
Newbugh.
The witnesses we're John E. Mack,
Mrs. Stillman's lawyer, who an
nounced the marriage Friday night,
and Mrs. James Stillnan Jr, Mrs.
Stilman's daughter-in-law.
Meanwhile, Stillman, a former
president of the National City bank,
was on the Olympic bound for Eu-
rope
The McCornicks have gone to her
cottage at East Hampton, L. l.,
where they plan. to spend the sum-
mer. Mrs. Mccormick is So, and
Mccormick is 80.
Mrs. Mccormick met her present
husband through her son Bud, and
they hav been friends since he
was %.
Mccormick aided Mrs. Stillman
when her husband sued for divorce,
disavowing the paternity of her
youngest son, Guy, and naming Fred
Beauvais, a Canadian Indian guide,
as correspondent and father of the
child
Stillman is charged in the present
decree with misconduct while in
Nevada in 1880. In her interlocutory
decree, Mrs. Stillman offered to
name three women with whom
Stillman had committed indis-
cretions. but the final decree made
no mention of these.
Justice Ndorschauser, who has pre-
sided in nearly all the Stillman
litigation, heard the divorce case on
Feb. 81. Neither of the principals
appeared.
The interlocutory decree was
granted on March 3. 1t specifically
records that Stillman admitted be-
ing the father of four children by
Mrs. Stillman Mrs. Henry P.
Dawson, %; James (Bud) Stillman,
&c; Alexander, 10, and Guy, IL.
The testimony was not filed with
the decree, the divorce and remar-
rage being conducted with the ut
most secrecy. Mack said the court
had given Mrs. Stillman custody of
Guy.
For number of years, to all out
ward appearances, the Stillmans
were living in a state Of connubial
bliss.
During the years following Mrs.
Stillman saw Mccormick often, but
always laughed when it was sug-
gested that she might marry him
some day.
Mccormick is a graduate of the
Parker school of Chicago, Groton
school and Princeton
At one time was reported seek
ing the hand of his present wife's
daughter, Anne