Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1910 After her father’s death, Nellie’s life meandered along. There she is, in the social pages of the Mount Verno...

Nellie Hickey stands at right outside Chicago's Medinah Temple, 1915; image is backwards  (Chicago Historical Society) Mount Ver...

Advertisement for 555 Park Avenue, where Nellie Ridder lived after her divorce from Bernard H. Ridder, Jr. Three ex-wives of a news...

Patent, Otto G. Luyties Otto Luyties’ younger brother, Henry, disappeared from New York City in September 1912. The men were ten years...