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The announcement that Orrin W. Pot ter, of Chicago, had determined to re move himself and belongings from the ciy by the Lake to New York, means the acquisition by this city of a remark able family. In the first place Mr. Potter {a a mill ionaire, and has the dstinction of being the organizer of the fist steel tront. This was while he was President of the North Chicago Rolling Mills, and he merged tremendous tron interests in Chi cago, Joliet, Milwaukee and different points in Michigan. Mr. Potter is the father of two inter esting girls, who have occupied much space in the public prints. Both are talented, along similar lines, as writers, and have at times given society distinct shocks by their unconventionality and boldness of thought and utterance. Mrs. Gertrude Potter Daniels, the elder daughter, is the wife of the son of George Hi. Daniels, of the New York Central Hallour she is now in her twentye ninth year, but attracted atten ion in her teens. It was sixteen years ago that it was said that she was in love with Eugene Dunnivant, a bright newsboy, who was subsequently sent to the Joliet Penitentiary on a charge of burclry., Dunnivant always maintained that he was railroaded to prison by Miss Potter a father to get him out of the war Then Miss Potter met Julius Clarke Daniels and they were secretly married under the names of Julius Clark and Gertrude White. The two lived at the homes of their respective parents. Sub sequently ‘Mrs. Clark’ was told the marriage was invalid and she married BF. lon Rue, a minor They never lived to Hesder and when publicity was given to the true marriage the parents succeeded In having both ceremonies annulled, and then Mr. Daniels and Miss Potter were remarried under their own names and they have lived happily together ever Rt Mrs Potter had taken a hard course at the Chicago Conservatory and became an amateur actress of extraordinary ability. In the mean time she had pro duced a society novel called “Halamar,” which created a sensation because of Its bold treatment of a dangerous subject. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels, now In Cali fornia, will live in New York perma nently, the former going into business with his father. Margaret Votter is the younger daughter. Her career has not been so ‘Kalelloscopiec as that of her elder sister, but at sixteen she created such a sensa tion that Chicago society was spilt in twain, the question at issue being whether or not she should be recognized or thrown beyond the pale. Her faction won, but it required months to do it. This was because she wrote a society novel called “A Social Lion.” It dug so deep down into the secret doings of society people that Chicago simply gasped and looking at her sixteen-year old face, exclaimed: “How did she kno Mr. Potter spent $2,000 In buy ing the plates of the book and suppress ing St. Mias Potter did not stop writing. She recently finished another novel, “The House of De Mailly, which is being produced in serial form, and she is now in Egypt getting material for another book. She returns in May. The last time the Potters broke into a print in a sensational way was when their Lake Shore Drive castle was in vaded by burglars and thousands of dollars’ worth of jewels were carried away, after Mrs. Potter had been ren dered unconscious by chloroform. Mrs. Potter, by the way, is a blood ‘aunt of the Princess de Chimay, or Fanny Ward, as she was known in this country. The mystery of the burglary was never cleared away, but there are those who ssay Eugene Dunnivant, the newsboy, was avenged, MARGARET POTTER AND MRS. GERTRUDE POTTER-DANIELS.
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New York Evening World
New York, New York, US
Wed, Mar 27, 1901
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