Mrs. Cyril Herbert Emanuel Bretherton (Norah Annie Keating)

…e Mixed Claims Commission awarded Cyril Bretherton, on Norah’s behalf, $7,500.00 for the loss of Betty and $1,500.00 for the loss of personal effects. Later life Cyril’s career took off quickly.  His correspondence in Dublin, Ireland during the events leading up to Irish independence depicted the Irish so negatively that “his life was only saved by the intervention of the American Consul” (obituary, from Kalafus and Poirier, 2005).  His experience…

Master John Edward Williams

…oon returned to England.  John Williams filed suit against Germany for $40,000.00 in the United States for the loss of his wife and four children, and $250.00 for the loss of their personal effects. His suit was dismissed, for as a British national could not make his claim in the US courts. Edward and Edith Williams’ suits in the US and UK both failed on the same grounds: pain and suffering caused by the loss of a loved one, by 1925 standards, was…

Dr. Owen Hill Kenan

…ng an old vacant two story mansion late at night on the Intracostal near 1300 block on South Lakeside Dr. in Lake Worth Fl. A taxi would wait outside and a single light would be seen upstairs for a short while and then leave with him. The house was on a block long estate with statue and fountains on the grounds. This was a mystery to most people; the house has been torn away. An apartment was built there with the name Ken-Lee (Lee was a long time…

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