Mary Lily (Kenan) Flagler and her husband, Henry, arrive on the FIRST train to Key West, January 22, 1912.
Flagler had vacillated for years about building his ultimate dream -- The Key West Extension:
But Mary Lily urged him on.
By that time, Henry Flagler was entirely SURROUNDED BY KENANS: William Rand Kenan, Jr -- who while in college was the first to isolate and identify Calcium Carbonate (the best gas of gas-lighting and necessary to welding, leading to Union Carbide -- and he was still in COLLEGE!!!), had done MOST of Flagler's Florida developing for him, being roughly parallel to John D. Rockefeller's position of running Standard Oil for Flagler, so roughly as wealthy as Rockefeller on his own (when they had incorporated, Flagler, his FIRST father-in-law Harkness, and Rockefeller were EQUAL partners, but Flagler came to control most of the Harkness part), so Will Kenan (as he was called, and he MOVED IN with his life-long male secretary, Scotty, in 1947 after his nice but "horsey", Yankee wife died -- he living on until 1965), ended up running all of "Flagler System" and related conglomerates in shipping, railroads, land-development, etc., for his SISTER, Flager's widow, and continued to until he died in the mid-1960s, and then Frank Hawkins Kenan and his brother James Graham Kenan (the Atlanta - Chapel Hill axis), took over.
Owen Hill Kenan, MD was ALSO a LUSITANIA survivor!!!: http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/saloon/owen-kenan/
And the DANDY, Owen Hill Kenan, MD (1872 - 1963), Mary Lily and Will's uncle -- and like so many Kenan men, lifelong unmarried (or producing few or no children) -- who had volunteered and drove ambulances at the French front in WWI, LONG before the US declared war -- and became the FIRST NON-CITIZEN, EVER, to be awarded the French Medal of Honor.
Whitehall in Palm Beach was Flagler's wedding gift to Mary Lily Kenan. Today, it is the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, http://flaglermuseum.us .
Dr. Owen Kenan was Flagler's personal physician for many years, nicely positioned to let all know that on May 20, 1913, when a frail Flagler, who was not then ill or complaining, fell down the stairs at Whitehall, he was NOT actually pushed by IMPATIENT Kenans -- worried that Mary Lily was showing ever GREATER signs of tertiary syphilis.
But in December of 1916, she married the man who actually GAVE her the syphilis when they were college students -- she at Peace College in Raleigh, he at Duke, "Col." Robert Worth Bingham of Louisville, Ky, and Mary Lily was DEAD within half a year.
LATER, since Bingham murdered HER to get the $5,000,000.00 codicil to HIM in HER will, the Kenans BOUGHT Duke University (founded by Bingham's ancestors), and turned it TOTALLY KENAN!!!
From the FIRST autopsy on Mary Lily (Kenan) Flagler, Bingham:
"Mary Lily`s body had contained ``enormous amounts`` of morphine, accumulated over many months, as well as traces of injected adrenaline and heavy metal poisons, such as arsenic, and possibly mercury.
"Everyone agreed that, pending further tests, the results were to be kept secret."
AND TO FINISH THIS POINT: Dr. Owen Kenan walked all around Wilmington in the 1920s and 30s brandishing a gun inside his solid-gold lion's head canes, while his sisters owned the BIGGEST mansions and best chauffeured limousines of the day -- perhaps something like this:
. . . while my FATHER was so dirt-poor, he was mostly raised by sympathetic black women, after my grandmother died, grandpa's cotton and tobacco warehouses burned -- and he took permanently to drink, and then grandpa had joined the Ku Klux Klan and later married my step-grandmother, Annie Childers, who already had an illegitimate son by someone else.
THEN, the Great Depression hit -- and everyone made fun of my father and his siblings -- the rich Kenans riding HIGH ON THE HOG, so I understand why Dad must hate them.
And in an amazing parallel REALITY CONSTRUCTION, in 2011, when I was FIRST in a New Hanover County, North Carolina Court hearing (before alcoholic Judge Rebecca Blackmore), when she replied to me after I asked for a Public Defender, "I never HEARD of a Kenan without three or four Trust Funds in his back pocket!!!" and then ordered her staff to research me online before giving in, the HUGE LAUGHTER of the nearly full court room, let ME feel Dad's OLD PAIN.
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Scott Kenan shared a link.
NOW, the GOD-HATING Rockefeller Bank, Chase Manhattan -- a major competitor to Kenan/Sinatra Families-owned Bank of America, and my Kenan relatives inherited MORE of Standard Oil from Henry Flagler than Rockefeller ever owned -- and did you KNOW that John D. Rockefeller boycotted Mary Lily Kenan's marriage ceremony at Liberty Hall, ancestral seat of the Kenan Family in NC, to Rockefeller's BOSS, calling Mary Lily Kenan a "slut and a whore" -- just because she was beginning to show signs of the tertiary stage of syphilis???
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Living the Law of Attraction / The Secret — with Monopoly Jignora Oglester and 2 others.
Living the Law of Attraction / The Secret — with Monopoly Jignora Oglester and 2 others.
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