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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;elarnia, post: 6475, member: 159&quot;]This woman had an eventful life, but I have doubts about her being the Adelaide in the picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that 17 year old Adelaide, daughter of &quot;wealthy insurance broker Richard Schell&quot; had &quot;slight stage experience and was called the most beautiful girl in Washington Heights&quot; when she met Dr. Francis Alexis Sutorius, one of the most promising young physicians from the Bronx, married with two children, and considerably her senior.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two of them eloped to London where things didn&#039;t go well for them.&nbsp; &quot;Destitute&quot;, a style she was not used to, Adelaide returned to her parents some six weeks later, and the good Dr. returned to his wife, who accepted him back &quot;for the sake of the children and because she still loved him&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some time after this he was arrested for &quot;drunk &amp; disorderly conduct&quot; for throwing a friend through a plate glass window of a bar during an eclipse <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>The end of the story? -- But no - some three years later, the Dr having filed for divorce, though it&#039;s uncertain if he was granted one, they eloped again, this time going west. she contacted her parents from Iowa, saying she was very happy.&nbsp; The AMA journal has them married there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some time after that her father was seeking to have her mother committed for observation following what sounds like a classic nervous breakdown.</p><p><br /></p><p>A real shame they didn&#039;t have reality TV in the 1900&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought the &quot;some stage experience&quot; sounded promising, but she is referred to in one article as a singer.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how she would have had time to become a concert pianist, unless the appellation is a courtesy society one for the kind of performing any young lady of society was expected to be able to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, the woman in the picture looks to be wearing rings on both hands - perhaps Schell is her married name? (Perhaps even her mother? Although I didn&#039;t find any mention of her being a pianist, the stories were really about her daughter.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew I included newspapers in my Ancestry subscription for some reason<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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