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VOLUME I. NUMBER 4.
Matrimonial Tangle
That Might Puzzle
Solomon to Unravel
Dan Hanna Is Responsible for This
Problem: If a Man Has Children
( t by Three Wives Are the Children of
i / His First Wife and Children of His
Third Wife Half-Sisters and Half
Brothers “Once Removed?”
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First—Dan Hanna married
May Harrington. They had
three sons. After a divorce
the first Mrs. Dan Hanna mar
ried Edmund K. Stallo, who
has two daughters. She has
now sued him for divorce.
Second—Dan Hanna mar
ried Mrs. Walter de S. Maud,
formerly Daisy Gordon. They
had one daughter. This Mrs.
Hanna, after a divorce, mar
ried Frank D. Pelton, who had
a son by a previous marriage.
Third —Dan Hanna married
Mrs. Frank E. Skelly, former
ly Marie Stuart. They have
two daughters. While this
Mrs. Hanna was Mrs. Skelly
she had a daughter.
Now, what relation are the
Stallo girls to Dan Hanna’s
three sets of children. What
relation Is the Pelton boy to
the Stalls girls? What rela
tion are the Skelly girls to the
Stallos and the Peltons?
EW YORK. —To the marital
mfx-ups that have made
the Hanna family tree dlf
flcult for even expert ge
nealogists to climb must be
v added a new chapter. For
with the filing of a suit for absolute
divorce against Edmund K. Stallo,
the New York lawyer, by hfs wife,
formerly the first wife of Dan R. Han
na, only son of the late Senator Mark
Hanna of Ohio, the relations of the
various members of the Hanna family
and its offshoots are further compli
cated.
Before another twelvemonth, unless
the suit is withdrawn, Mrs. Stallo may
be free to wed again, and as she is
still an attractive woman with a large
income in her own right, a third dip
In the matrimonial surf is not Im
probable.
But even should she remain unmar
ried, there are enough pussling rela
ton sb ips In the Hanna famly to make
it unnecessary to speculate what rela
tions her children by a third husband
would be to the daughters of Dan Han
na by his second and third wires.
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Dan Hanna, millionaire coal opera
tor and business man of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been married three times, a
not unusual record in these days of
quick divorce. However, he has had
children by each of his three wives,
three sons by the first wife, a daugh
ter by the second wife and two daugh
ters by the present Mrs. Hanna, who
is known as Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 3.
Jungle of Relationships.
The complications resulting from
this one-sided yet triple matrimonial
feat would not be difficult for the veri
est layman to figure out bad not two
of Hanna’s wives been married before
he married them, two married since
he divorced them and several children
had resulted from their various unions.
But even With all this clear in one’s
mind there are other complications
that have to be taken into considera
tion in this veritable jungle of rela
tionships. '
The two husbands whom the two di
vorced wives of Hanna married had
children by previous marriages, so
the family tree and all its branches
takes on the aspect of a Chinese
puzzle.
It was in the summer of 1887 that
Dan Hanna, then a young man, mar
ried Miss May Harrington, the
daughter of a prominent Cleveland
family. Three sons were born to
them, Mark, named after his famous
grandfather, Carl and Dan, Jr. How
ever, the marriage did not turn out
happily, and in 1897 Mrs. Hanna ob
tained a divorce from him.
Hanna’s Second Plunge.
The following year he married Mrs.
Walter de S. Maud, the divorced wife
of Captain Maud, an Englishman. Be
fore her marriage to Maud she was
Miss Daisy Gordon, the daughter of
W. J. Gordon, one of Cleveland’s
wealthiest citizens and an Intimate
friend of Dan Hanna's first wife.
She had obtained a divorce from
Maud In Akron, Ohio, but after her
marriage to Dan Hanna Captain Maud
obtained a divorce from her in Eng
land on the grounds that her second
marriage was bigamous. They had
no children, but she and Dau Hanna
had a daughter, Elizabeth.
This second marriage of Hanna's
was no more fortunate than the first.
In 1908 Mrs. Hanna No. 2 sued him
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1912.
[ for divorce In Cleveland and won tb«
I suit.
And wthln 48 hours Dan Hanna mar
rled for a third time, taking Mrs.
Frank E. Skelly, the divorced wife of
a Waldorf-Astoria hotel clerk for his
bride. Mrs. Skelly was Miss Marie
Stuart before her first marriage She
was the mother of a daughter, Eliza
beth by name, by her first husband
Mrs. Hanna Takes Second Husband.
Before Dan Hanna married for the
third time Mrs. Hanna No. 1 had tab
en a second husband. Edmund K
Stallo, the New York lawyer, was her
choice. He had previously been mar
ried to Miss Laura McDonald, the
daughter of Alexander McDonald, erne
of the original Standard Oil million
aires. By her he had two daughters,
Laura and Elizabeth. These two girls
recefity came into prominence as
great heiresses on the death of their
grandfather, but It has since devel
oped the the enormous estate which
was supposed to be held in trust for
them had dwindled down to a few
thousand dollars.
When Mrs. Hanna No. 1 became
Mrs. Edmund K. Stallo she took up
her residence at the Waldorf-Astoria
with her husband and his two daugh
ters. Her three sons were in school,
but during the holidays they divided
their time between visiting her and
their father out In Cleveland.
Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 2 did not re
main single very long. She moved
to New York immediately after her
divorce In 1906. She married Frank
lin D. Pelton, a New York business
man. She was awarded the custody
of her daughter Elizabeth, whom she
brought east with herr-
Additions to Mlxup.
Franklin D. Pelton had been di
vorced from his wife, who was Miss
Lucy Carter, only a short time before
he married Mrs. Dan Hanna No. 2. He
was the father of a son by his first
marriage. Os course he was Mrs. Dan
Hanna’s third husband and she is bis
second wife.
After his third marriage Dan Hanna
moved from Cleveland to Ravenna,
Ohio, where he has since become the
father of two little girls, who, bf
course, are half-sisters to Mrs. Ed
mund K. Stallo's three sons and Mrs
Franklin D. Pelton’s daughter. Eliza
beth Skelly, the daughter of Mrs. Dan
Hanna No. 3, by her first husband. Is
naturally Dan Hanna’s stepdaughter
and half-sister to his two little girte.
but what relation is she to Mrs. Stal
lo’s three sons or to Mrs. Pelton’s
daughter?
A dozen other questions of relation
ship present themselves. If a man
has children by three wives are the
children of his first wife half-sisters
and half-brothers “once removed?”
Not even De Wolf Hopper or Nat
Goodwin, who married four wives, has
had the experience of living under the
same roof and dining in the same ho
tel dining room with three wives at
the same time. But such an experi
ence has come to Dan Hanna on more
than one occasion. Until the Stallos
separated they made their home at the
Waldorf-Astoria, as do Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin D. Pelton in the winter
months.
Rsther Uncongenial Party.
Dan Hanna on bis frequent visits to
New York usually stops at the Wal
dorf-Astoria, and on one of his recent
visits with his third wife he entered
the rose room and was shown to a
table In close proximity to one where
Mr. and Mrs. Stallo were dining. On
their way to the table they passed
Mr. and Mrs. Pelton, who were dining
with Mrs. Pelton's daughter, Eliza
beth.
"Oh, papa!” she cried, springing up
from the table and rushing to his arms.
Carl Hanna, Mrs. Stallo’s second
son, was married about two years ago,
and it Is not unlikely that Dan Hanna
will become a grandfather before
long.
And then there will be another
problem in the relationships In this
much-married and mixed-up Hanna
family.
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The first balloon to carry living
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a duck and a cock, all of which land
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ascend In a balloon was a young
French naturalist, M. Francois Pilatre
de Rozier, who used a captive bal
loon for his first attempts. Then, on
November 21, 1783, he and the Mar
quis d’Arlandes made the first trip
in a free balloon. This was made in
a hot air balloon, and fire was kept
burning In a brazier suspended be
neath while up In the air.
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According to the Vienna Neue
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importance as throwing light on the
state of European-policies In the near
east
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