Monday, Jan. 14, 1924
Reported Engaged. Captain Robert Elias Treman of Ithaca, N. Y., divorced in Paris last July by Irene Castle, to Miss Lilly Belle Jaeger, 21, of Montclair, N. J.
Engaged. George Owen, Jr., 23, generally acknowledged to be the greatest Harvard athlete of all time, to Miss Leonora Trafford of Readville, Mass.
Married. William Pierson Hamilton, 54, of Manhattan, retired member of J. P. Morgan and Co., executor of the will of the late Mr. Morgan, to Mrs. Theodosia S. Carlin, of Montecito, Calif., at Montecito. Simultaneously it became known that Mr. Hamilton and his first wife, Juliet P. Morgan, daughter of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, had been divorced in December by decree of the Nevada State Courts.
Died. Nathan Bay Scott, 81, Republican Senator from West Virginia (1899-1911), President until a year ago of the Continental Trust Co., Washington, D. C., since 1888 West Virginian representative on the Republican National Committee, of heart disease, at Washington.
Died. William A. Miske, 29, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, of acute Bright's disease, in Minneapolis. In 114 fights he was knocked out only once-- by Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness."
Died. Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler, 70, cousin of the late President Roosevelt, at Nyack, N. Y., of cardiac rheumatism. Before Prohibition he and his cousin, Samuel Roosevelt, were sole agents in the U. S. for Haig & Haig, Scotch whisky.
Died. Ashton Harvey, 70, retired Manhattan lawyer, at Ormond Beach, Fla., of heart disease, while golfing with John Davison Rockefeller.
Died. Kate Terry (Mrs. Arthur Lewis), 79, oldest living member of the famous Terry family of actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing.