Monday, Sep. 15, 1924
Married. Ogden L. Mills, 40, U. S. Congressman and Manhattan clubman, to Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Fell; at Narragansett Pier, R. I. His divorced wife, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, is now the wife of Sir Paul Dukes, of London. Mrs. Fell last year divorced John R. Fell, of Philadelphia, charging drunkenness. Mr. Mills is the grandson of Darius Ogden Mills, '49er.
Married. George Owen, Jr., 23, famed Harvard (1923) football, hockey, baseball athlete, to Miss Leonora Trafford of Milton, Mass. Owen has been called "the greatest athlete who ever wore the Crimson."
Married. Miss Emily Winthrop, 31, and Miss Kate Winthrop, 24, daughters of Grenville Lindall Win throp, retired capitalist, "whose wealth is reported to match that of anys man in Lenox," respectively to Corey Miles, 33, chauffeur, and Darwin Morse, 23, electrician; at Lenox, Mass., by elopement. Winthrop, a direct descendant of John Winthrop, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, was unnerved. Said the Lenox cleric who married them: "Well, they are nice young people--as nice as you'll find anywhere these days."
Bankrupt. Roald Amundsen; in Christiania; voluntary. (See Page 19.)
Died. Dario Resta, famed automobile driver; at Brooklands, England. (See Page 30.)
Died. Edward F. ("Pop") Geers, 73, famed reinsman; at Wheeling, W. Va. (See Page 29.)
Died. Lieutenant General Samuel B. M. Young, U.S.A., retired, 85; at Helena, Mont. (See Page 4.)
Died. Adam Willis Wagnalls, 81, famed publisher; at Northport, L. I. (See Page 22.)
Died. Maria Thompson Daviess, 52, artist and author; in the National Arts Club, Manhattan; of heartdisease.
Died. Samuel Merrill, 93, founder of Bobbs-Merrill, famed Indianapolis publishers; in Los Angeles. Mr. Merrill served as a colonel in the Civil War, wrote a history of his regiment.
Died. Rabbi Solomon Milles, 107, in Chicago, of old age. His surviving children number 8 out of 18. He was "Chicago's oldest citizen."