Mr. Michael Henry Adams' Style & Taste Circa 1. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh. Always, she is shown to best advantage. Smiling, bright eyed and sincere, She beckons to us still: resplendent and ever properly attired, even amidst the perils of the Great Depression or during world warfare. For gala occasions routinely she dripped with gems worth $1. Be- furred in sable, chinchilla, fox, mink and ermine, she was sure as well to be beautifully gowned and handsomely shod. You’re Different For a Reason. God has made you unique for a purpose. It’s His desire for you to use your gifts to serve Him and make a difference in this life. A Consumer Rights Law Firm. What is the Lemon Law? A “Lemon” is a term used to describe a motor vehicle with one or more manufacturing or design defects that. William Dobell’s entry in the 1943 Archibald Prize - an image of fellow painter Joshua Smith - led to a bitter court case and was a turning point in. Abbott & Costello on DVD animated cartoon Bud Abbott, Stan Irwin, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Hal Smith, Mel Blanc and Janet Waldo - 1967. George Washington Kavanaugh. Always, she is shown to best advantage. Smiling, bright eyed and sincere, She beckons to us still: resplendent and ever. The humor of Laurel and Hardy was highly visual with slapstick used for emphasis. They often had physical arguments with each other (in character), which were quite. PONOMUSIC LAUNCHES EQUITY CROWDFUNDING For as little as $5,000, accredited investors can purchase shares in PonoMusic and become an owner of the company. Faultlessly groomed, she was habitually be- flowered with orchid corsages for a momentary outing, that cost as much as a worker’s weekly wages. But who was she: Maria Magdalena Muller Haberle Kavanaugh, opera patron and socialite? With her friend Lady Deices, in 1. Mrs. Kavanaugh was immortalized by the photographer Weegee. In his scathing social commentary on America’s inequality, entitled the “The Critic”, she is a dressed- up callous grotesque. But this picture of privileged frivolity, beaming in the face of desperate privation, artfully staged and presented with such stark drama, was by no means the total picture. Kavanaugh is either so definitive a portrayal, nor as fatal an incitement, as Wilde’s fictitious picture of Dorian Gray. November 2. 2, 1. The Critic”by Weegee. To begin with, judging from the earliest photograph I was able to locate, taken in 1. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh was already a matronly 4. But taking care to capitalize on of husband’s immense wealth, employing it to enhance all her finest qualities, by adorning herself as smartly as possible, lavishly entertaining and happily being entertained in return, finding fun and taking delight in whatever came her way, this is at the very heart of what it is that makes, the seemingly silly Mrs. Kavanaugh, so appealing. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh in the earliest photograph I was able to locate. Proceeding the revolution of 1. Germany. Andrew Muller, christened “Andreas”, was born in Urspringen, Main- Spessart, Bayern. With his first wife he’d settled in Ypsilanti, Michigan in 1. Their son and a daughter were born here. Only once the first Mrs. Muller and her infant daughter died in Michigan, did Mrs. Kavanaugh’s father meet and marry her mother, Karolina Gratwohl, who also soon Americanized her name to Caroline. Moving to Richmond, Virginia, where Mrs. Kavanaugh was said to have been born, Andrew Miller was a musician in the Public Guard Band. His Obituary notes how he played at the hanging of John Brown, at Harper's Ferry, in 1. Kavanaugh, “was supposed to have been born in Richmond”, because some sources maintain that her family, composed of four sisters and two brothers, had left Virginia, for Syracuse, New York around 1. Most available census data place the year of her birth, at around 1. The 1. 90. 0 federal census indicates that she was born in March of 1. That for 1. 93. 0, says, “about 1. Wow, 1. 87. 2 ! Even then, she’d have only been ten- yeas old when wed in 1. Virginia Marie Haberle, the elder, was born in 1. Her sister Leonora Haberle, followed in 1. If it remains undetermined whether his daughter shaved an entire decade off of her age over time, in all events, three things are clear: Andrew Miller served as a combatant in the Civil War, his best remembered child, Mrs. Kavanaugh, was a life- long member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and early in her girlhood, with her family, she was living at Syracuse, where her father died, in 1. On census forms, again and again, it says she had never attended school. But, as an accomplished music lover and bridge player, as fluent in German, as she was in English, it can be assumed, that she was educated privately, at home. German- Americans were at the forefront of commerce and political life in nineteenth century Syracuse. From the start, when she married brewer William Henry Haberle in 1. An exceptional woman, she would only come to realize her full potential after Haberle’s untimely death, at 5. Following their mother’s lead each of Mrs. Kavanaugh’s daughters made good matches. Virginian married Burns Lyman Smith, son of the founder of L. Smith Typewriter Co., that became the Smith- Premier Typewriter Co., which would later become Smith- Corona Typewriter Co, of which he was a director. Smith additionally served as president of Smith Wheel Inc., and the Syracuse Malleable Iron Works. He and his wife had two daughters and lived at 1. James Street in a substantial Richardsonian Romanesque style stone mansion which Mrs. Kavanaugh was to visit yearly, until finally, fortune smiled. For in 1. 92. 9 the Smith’s left New York. They settled first in Seattle, Washington, where the Smith tower was built, to move on to Los Angeles, the land of the movie stars, in 1. Circa 1. 90. 0: Virginian Haberle, Mrs. Kavanaugh's elder daughter. She married Burns Lyman Smith, an heir to the Smith Corona Typewriter Co. A 'first family' of Syracuse, the Smiths lived at 1. James Street in the substantial, now destroyed, Richardsonian Romanesque style mansion pictured below The Burns Lyman Smiths' library. Leonora Haberle married Charles Jolly Werner, in 1. Charles Jolly Warner and William Whitesides Warner. Auspiciously, Leonora Anglicized her good- looking young husband’s name, but to no avail. Possessed of a venerable linage and a promisingly affluent background, Charles Werner, as he stubbornly remained, detested working. Mrs. Kavanaugh's younger daughter, Leonora Haberle, married Charles Jolly Werner in her mother's Madison Avenue drawing room, which was banked with spring flowers. But, there now, I am getting ahead of myself. For just who, we all wonder, was the prince charming who rode along to rescue everyone, not from poverty, in this case, but from the tedium of obscurity? Fifty years old when he followed the widowed Mrs. Haberle to London in 1. Col. George Washington Kavanaugh was born in Waterford, Saratoga County, New York on May 2. He was a brother of Sheriff Fred Kavanaugh, of Saratoga county and had inherited the Karan Knitting Mills at Waterford, and was a partner in three others, at Cohoes, Utica and Philadelphia. An officer In the National Textile Manufacturing company of Troy and a director In the Adirondack Trust company of Saratoga, Kavanaugh had served as a New York Assemblyman and was appointed as a colonel on the staff of Governor Levi P. A seasonal jaunt to Narragansett Pier in 1. Mrs. Kavanaugh, a captivating Southern belle from an aristocratic family in Louisville Kentucky, Miss Julia C. Rickman, who, as fate would have it, was visiting her aunt at her cottage. Circa 1. 93. 5: Col. George Washington Kavanaugh. The Casino at Narragansett Pier, 'Newport' to the demi- monde. The considerably more relaxed seaside resort at Narragansett Pier, geographically, was right next- door to America's summer social capital. However, for most who stopped here, in terms of acceptance by the elite, it was both a world apart and as close as they might ever hope of getting to Newport. The very social piazza of Mc. Kim, Mead & White Casino at Narragansett Pier “It was,” enthused one newspaper account, with seeming glee, at the misfortune of the elite class, once news had leaked of the impending divorce,love at first sight. They were married the following December and came to New York, taking up their residence at the Waldorf- Astoria. Later, Kavanaugh bought a fine estate at Bay Shore and presented it to his wife. They lived in lavish style. Until their separation early this summer the couple divided their time principally between the Bay Shore home and the Waldorf- Astoria, where they had a suite of ten rooms. Henry Janeway Hardenbergh's Waldorf- Astoria. It’s an old story, a young flame, grows older and familiar, a new and sympathetic person appears on the scene, to make the even older man, feel young again himself. Kavanaugh, though but thirty- two, had been astute enough to engage a detective. Staging a raid, finding her husband, in a room in the Hotel Navarre with another woman, formed the basis of the suit for divorce which she filed. Was wily old Kavanaugh, only possessed of an income is about $6. Two accounts extravagantly gave his income as one- million yearly. Another estimated his fortune, in 1. After his death in 1. Very likely beyond these bequests, beyond even jewels and property that Kavanaugh bestowed on his family, there were also substantial trust funds, not subject to his will. Apart from any material generosity he exhibited repeatedly over the course of a long life, a letter that Kavanaugh wrote beseeching his first spouse to reconsider, two days after she had filed to end their marriage, offers fascinating insights into the character of this powerful man, insights that would have likely been impossible to unearth, had not Julia Kavanaugh, shared his letter with the press for publication: 5—2. Dearie— so sad, and we have loved each other so much. You say you have heard so many things that 1 have done, and no married man that I know has not done very much more. This is no excuse for me; no love goes to anyone in these matters from me, and I swear that yon are wrong as to my having anything with that party, or Mrs. I will admit that Thursday morning's affair looked badly. You and your mother and Edward can take a three or four months' trip abroad, and on your return even this ugly course can be avoided, for the settlement matter can take place now, making you independent of me and for as long as yon like, go when and where and with whom you choose, and 1 will go and live with my father and mother. Do please try and avoid it. You can be absolutely independent of me in every way, and you can live where you choose. I am conscious of how I have wronged, but to have yon taken away from me with no chance of ever being with yon again will be the greatest sorrow of my life. Peter denied our Lord, but afterward became almost the Chief of the Apostles. Many a man or woman has sinned, but has been helped back to goodness and loved by the one sinned against.
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