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• Zij is geboren op 8 maart 1883 in Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania.
• Zij is overleden op 25 september 1940 in Cornwall-On-Hudson, Central Valley, Orange, New York, zij was toen 57 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Joseph Murphy (Hon.) Gazzam en Mary Anna Reading

Gezin van Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam

Zij is getrouwd met Charles Broe Galvin.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 18 oktober 1910 te Cornwall-On-Hudson, Orange, New York, zij was toen 27 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. (Niet openbaar)
2. Ralph Broe Galvin  1915-2007
3. Rodrigo Rod Shell Galvin  1911-1995

Notities over Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam

Notes




This found on Google.com., and noted gratefully here this day...
9/30/10

/ln

From The New York Times, dated October 3, 1907...copyright @ the New York
Times...

HEADLINE...

"PUTS HER HATRED IN HER WILL..."

Mrs. Gazzam, leaving $1,250,000, tells her daughter to shun her father.

In the will of the late Mrs. Mary Anna Reading Gazzam of Cornwall-on-Hudson is
shown the hatred she had for the husband she divorced many years ago, and
whom she never forgave.  The clause in the will by which she leaves her estate
of $1,250,000 to her daughter, Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam, directs that the
executors and guardian of her child shall guard against her over coming under
the care or influence of the father.

"I most solemnly charge and direct the  executor and the guardian of my beloved
daughter Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam, that they guard and protect her from
coming at any time or in any manor under the care of or within the influence of or
into the personal or social contact of her father, John Joseph M. Gazzam," the
clause reads.

Mrs. Gazzam, who died a few weeks ago, had been the principal in a number of
lawsuits.  She was at one time defendant in a sensational suit, being charged
with having alienated the affections of her cousin, R. Charles Reading, from his
wife.  Mrs. Gazzam was forced to pay $25,000 damages finally, although she
fought the case from one court to another for years.

John Joseph Gazzam was formerly a State Senator in Pennsylvania.  After her
divorce, Mrs. Gazzam brought an action against her husband to compel him to
make an accounting for $500,000 belonging to the estate of her father, which he
had managed and controlled for many years.  In this suit she fought her former
husband bitterly.

Miss Gazzam, who is the chief beneficiary under the terms of the will, is to be
married to the Rev. A. H. Robinson, a Unitarian minister of Newburg.  She lived
with her mother at their country home ever since the divorce proceedings.  She
made a solemn promise to her mother prior to her death that she would never
have anything to do with her father, who has again married and is living in
Philadelphia.

Additional Information:




This also found on Google.com, and noted gratefully here this day...
10/2/10

/ln

Article from The New York Times, published October 4, (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)
New York Times...

"ASTROLOGER'S WIFE SUES MISS GAZZAM"...
Mrs. Clark wants $150,000 from Heiress to $3,000,000 for Winning Husband's
Love.

Refused to give him up...

Miss Gazzam, Mrs. Clark Declares, said she would have her husband "if it cost
forty lives."

  The circumstances regarding the disappearance of Miss Antoinette Gazzam, the
young woman who lives on a large estate bequeathed her by her mother at

Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, and the details of the young woman's friendship for
Marshall Clark, a real estate dealer of Chicago, who is in this city in connection
with the one-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-dollar suit for the alienation of her
husband's affections which Mrs. Clark has brought against Miss Gazzam.
  The suit was begun in July last, and it will soon come up in the Supreme Court
here.  To fight the suit, Miss Gazzam has retained an imposing array of legal
talent, both here and in Chicago.  Among her lawyers are De Lancey Nicoll,
Frederic P. Bellamy, ex-Judge Van Amee, Col. James Hamilton Lewis, and P.J.
O'Shea of Chicago.  Mr. Bellamy has long been the Gazzam family lawyer.
  Miss Gazzam, by the will of her mother, who died about three years ago, came
into a fortune of about $3,000,000.  The Gazzam with the understanding that,
comprises several hundred acres on the side of Storm King Mountain, near

Cornwall, was left to the daughter by Mrs. Gazzam with the understanding that,
upon the daughter's death, it should go to Dr. J.A. McCorkle of 149 Clinton
Street, Brooklyn, who was the Gazzam family physician.

  According to Lawyer Comerford, Miss Gazzam's disappearance is due entirely
to her desire to keep out of public notice until the alienation suit has been
disposed of.,  He says her whereabouts are known to her lawyers, who are in
consultation with her from time to time.

  As evidence in the pending suit, Lawyer Comerford has a large bundle of
affidavits which set forth how Marshall Clark, the astrologer and psychic disciple,
met Miss Gazzam in Los Angeles and how the young woman fell under his

influence.  In the presence of Mrs. Clark, who arrived in New York this week,
Lawyer Comerford, in his rooms at Keans' chop house in West Thirty-sixth Street,
showed the reporters his affidavits and discussed the case at length.
  "Mrs. Marshall Clark," he said, "is a member of the Crane family of Saginaw,
Mich.  She is a sister of Judge Crane of that city, and three of her brothers are
well-known lawyers there.  She married Clark on March 24, 1903, in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in West Twenty-third Street, this city.  After their
marriage the couple traveled extensively, making a tour of the world and

journeying all over the United States.  They finally settled in Chicago.  At the time
of his marriage Clark was in the real estate business in this city at 72 West Thirty-
fifth Street.  Early in the present year the Clacks moved to Los Angeles, where
Clark continued his real estate business and kept up his psychic readings.  On
March 24, 1909, a young woman of good appearance registered at the

Lankershim Hotel, Los Angeles, as Miss Elizabeth Mazzag, which is Gazzam

spelled backward.  This young woman, who Mrs. Clark learned later was really
Miss Gazzam, who was also a student of psychology, and in this way she met Mr.
Clark.  The two became friends at once."

  Mrs. Clark, who is a good-looking, well-dressed woman of about 30 years, took
up the lawyer's narrative and continued; "I went to my husband's office on April 20
last and found him there with Miss Gazzam.  When I upbraided him he drew a
revolver and threatened to shoot me.  I was only saved by the timely intervention
of the Rev. William Frances Arland, a Baptist clergyman of Los Angeles, who
called at the office.  He made my husband put up his pistol.  Mr Clark and I since
our marriage had been very happy together, and after this episode his manner
underwent a complete change.

  "I found that Miss Gazzam had moved to the Zelda apartments and I went to
see her.  I told her that Mr. Clark was married, and she said she knew all about it.
She said Mr. Clark was her affinity in body, soul and spirit and that she was not
not going to give him up.  I told her that she was breaking my heart and that I was
weeping tears of blood, but she said she didn't care for my breaking heart; that
she had had everything she wanted all her life and was going to have my

husband if it cost my life and forty more."

  Lawyer Comerford said that in July last he had a long talk with Miss Gazzam.
"When I told her that it wasn't right for her to continue her relations with Clark,"
said the lawyer, "she replied that the marriage law was but a contract and that all
contracts were tainted with commercialism.  She said the religious form of
marriage was but an empty ceremony which didn't mean anything.  Real marriage
she declared to be a union of heart and soul, and that in this sense she

considered she and Clark were already married."

  Mrs. Clark's New York attorney is Samuel Bell Thomas of 203 Broadway.  



NOTE:  Found online, (10/3/10) but unable to bring up the full page/article,
it is titled "In The End, All Your Really Have is Memories"...by Antoinette
Gazzam.


I will be continuing to try and find a copy of this article, because from the title it
sounds as though Ms. Gazzam has some quite relative thoughts regarding her
life and loves.  I will post it here as soon as found.

/ln

Re: Her Marriage...




Found online at Google.com., and noted gratefully here this day...
10/3/10

/ln

From "The New York Times", published October 18, 1910...
Copyright @The New York Times.

"WEDS THE SOUL MATE SHE MET BY CHANCE..."

  Antoinette Gazzam Gives Herself and Her Millions With No Fear.
    A Rich Girl's Impulse...

Married near her Marble Home, she kisses her bridegroom's hand in a token of
her happiness.

  Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam, the heiress of several millions, whose earnest
quest for a soul-mate has beset her young life with difficulties, was married
yesterday at the priest's house, near her great mansion home at Cornwall-On-
Hudson, to Charles B. Galvin, an employee of the Aqueduct Commission.  As
the few guests drove away from the house after the wedding breakfast, the bride
waving them good-bye, she--who has told in a magazine of her "Search for a
Masculine Counterpart" and Ideal Companion through the supernatural"--seemed
radiant with the happiness that has come to her.  Some of the guests wondered if
she really had found her soul-mate, after all.  In her own mind there was no
question.

  "One naturally thinks of a bride as filled with fear and trepidation," she
whispered to a friend in parting, "but I have no such feeling.  It was just like
entering Heaven.  It was all so delightful.  I cannot tell you how perfectly happy I
am.  My husband is an Angel."

  Her husband was not as effusive, and seemed himself throughout the day with a
quiet calm that was almost stolidity.  He seemed contented enough, however,
looking out across the broad lawns and great reddening trees of Traumerol, the
Gazzam estate, and he was asked if he intended to return to his work in the
engineering department of the Aqueduct Commission.  "I am on an indefinite
leave of absence," he replied, "and I have not yet made my plans.  I cannot say
now wether or not I shall resume that work at all."

  In preparation for the wedding Mr. Galvin has left the modest surroundings of his
father's home, at 582 East 191st (or 101st?) Street, and had settled in an
exquisite room in Miss Gazzam's home, a room all pink and gold, with matchless
tapestries and engravings.

  Friends of Miss Gazzam say that they have known of the approaching event for
some time, but the date of the wedding was fixed hurriedly.  Some of the guests
were notified by telegram.

  They were Dr. Barcus of Philadelphia, Dr. Ecob of Flushing, Dr. J.A.F. Bell of
Philadelphia, who had been her mother's physician; Dr. John A. McCorkle of
Brooklyn, her former guardian; Frederick Bellamy, her lawyer; Charles Houstin
Goudis, the editor of the Forecast, a ...aging established recently with $10,000
which Miss Gazzam gave for the purpose; Mme. Torreao de Barros, her cousin,
Mrs. W.H. Scofield, Miss Mary Redding Scofield, and Mrs. Alfred H. Scofield.  Mr.
and Mrs. C.B. Galvin, the bridegroom's parents; E.J. Galvin, his brother, and Mrs.
George Murphy, his sister.  These, a few reporters, and her servants were the
ones who saw Antoinette Gazzam married yesterday afternoon in the house of
Father John Bros... of the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Cornwall.
  Kissed Her Bridegroom's Hand.
  The bridal carriage was bravely decorated, the wheels bound in straw, and ......
ribbons on the hubs.  The bride and bridegroom stood before an improvised
design of white carnations, and knelt together for the benediction.
  "May the happiest day of your past be the unhappiest day of your future," said
Brother Brosnan in conclusion.  Wherein Mrs. Galvin, in a fervor happiness,
seized the priest's hand and kissed it.  Still on her knees she turned to her
husband, who had risen to his feet, and kissed the hand he held out to her.  Then
everybody went back to the house on the hill for the wedding breakfast.
  Mrs. Galvin would not tell any one yesterday the culminating steps in the
romance which led to the marriage.  She was so happy that she wanted to talk,
and take everyone into her confidence, but her husband discouraged any of the
proceedings.  The story, which some of her friends tell, however, indicates that
she did the wooing.

 "Miss Gazzam has had one troublous .... in her quest for a soul-mate.  She was
sued a year ago by Mrs. Marshall Clark of Chicago, who charged her with

alienating the affections of her husband, Marshall Clark, the Palmist."  Mrs. Clark
herself had done some divination work, under the name of "Madame Mizpah."
The suit was for $150,000 and was settled out of court, early this year, for
$...,000.

  Shocked and dismayed by this experience, Miss Gazzam, who is only twenty-
seven years old, still had the hope of a soul-mate, and every one knew she had.
She was besieged by letters containing proposals, something akin to Bertillon
....urements, and photographs.  Not one of these, however, was Charles B.
Galvin, of 582 East 191st (101st) Street, New York.

  The Finding of Her "Soul Mate."
  Miss Gazzam had in her mind an ideal.  She had seen him in the projections of
an astral body, she said.  Rumor has it that she even furnished a description so
detailed to the Pinkertons, that he was thought to be found for her immediately.
  Then, on a roadside, one day she saw Galvin, whose work took him last Spring
to Cornwall, and her romance was well under way.  She learned his name and
wrote him three letters, each more fervent, more eager than the one before.  The
third brought him to the house on the hill, and yesterday, only a few months later,
they were married.

  Galvin is a well-built, practical-looking fellow some years his bride's senior.  His
mouth is firm, his chin strong.  These indications of anything but a romantic spirit
such as one would have secreted for Miss Gazzam's soul mate are offset only by
hair that waves wonderfully back from a fine forehead.

  The bride was blissful yesterday.  Looking very sweet and ingenuous in her
gown of ivory satin and her crown of orange blossoms, she merely toyed with the
wedding breakfast that was set before her, and turned constantly to talk in a
running, happy undertone to the self-possessed man who sat beside her,

sometimes leaning over to press his hand in hers.  He did not toy with his food.
Next to the bride the happiest couple at the wedding seemed to be the elder
Galvin and his wife, and Mrs. Murphy, who wore a gorgeous blue silk dress.  Mr.
Galvin, who says he has been engaged in many businesses in his day, and that
he is related to the Governor of a Mexican State.  He walked up and down the
great hall Traumerol, his high hat resting gently on his arm, his eye taking in the
beauty of the hangings and the rare prints.

  Antoinette Gazzam has lived an eventful life.  In addition to the suit which
brought her into the newspapers a year ago, she is known as one of the chief
props of the cause of "anti-vivisection" in this state.  She has for years backed a
Brooklyn anti-vivisection society which annually introduced a bill in the Legislature
for restricting vivisection, and tried to get it passed.  She is the author of "The
Problem of Vivisection."  But far more important than this writing, she considers
the article which is running in "The Forcast", a Philadelphia monthly which was
started on its fortunes by her check for $10,000, given for the purpose to it's
editor, Charles Houston Goudis.  The first number appeared in June, and
contained the first installment of "My Search for a Masculine Counterpart and
Ideal Companion Through the Supernatural."

    The Theory She Evolved.
  Her theory of soul mating took possession of her when she was only fourteen,
and she describes it in these words;  "I had heard that there did not exist in the
world of the entire universe any two individualities exactly alike, or even two
blades of grass which were identical.  But all at once there occurred to my
awakening mind the possibility that according to the grandeur and perfection of
the universal plan of existence, that perhaps each had his or her perfect

counterpart in the opposite sex," and that if so, they could be ideal companions
who would never weary of each other, but would love each other in this life and in
all future states of existence."

  This idea is further enlarged in her views on marriage.  "Each marriage, which
should be the most sacred of all human ties and relationships, is by far too often
little better than a mere matter of propinquity, and very often represents nothing
better than the natural inherent desire for the physical and intellectual

companionship of some congenial member of the other sex, without there having
been sufficient patience and effort to discover one's perfect counterpart.  But if
one is willing to accept a counterfeit, no matter how attractive it may at first
appear, instead of the genuine and perfect thing in regard to love, they will sooner
or later find out to their eternal sorrow that the hand does not fit the glove very
well after all, no matter to what degree they may hypnotize, blind, and deceive
themselves for a time."

  Antoinette Gazzam was impressionable at a very early age.  In the story of her
quest for a masculine counterpart she tells of having looked through an album of
photographs when she was a mere child and of having been caught by the

picture of an Apache Indian.

  "The picture, which I had viewed for only a few seconds, of the superb young
Indian, tastefully and becomingly dressed in our modern attire, made a permanent
impression upon my mind.  And this was the beginning of my romance."
  Culmination of Her Sincerity.
  Three installments of this narrative have already appeared, and Mr. Goudiss,
who was at the wedding yesterday, hopes to have the story of her finding Galvin
written in time for the December issue.  He intimated that her reluctance to tell the
full story of her romance now is due to her desire to save it for his magazine.
  "Any way, this wedding is the culmination of all her theories," he said, "and the
proof of her sincerity.  She has found the man she wanted and she has married
him."

  The Galvins will sail for Europe on their wedding trip after a few days spent in
the house to which Mr. Galvin moved from his home on East 191st (101st) street
in the far reaches of the Bronx.  It is a marble palace, set high on a hill behind
Cornwall-On-Hudson.  From the rooms on the second story one can look across
to the Catskills.  Within the furnishings are of great beauty.  Particularly valuable
is the Menz painting of Judas Iscariot crouching before a vision of the Christ,
which hangs in a room set aside for it.

  Yesterday the house was all flowers.  Great vases of chrysanthemums and
roses filled the reception hall, and a five-pointed star of small white roses hung
above the doorway.

  The house was built by her mother, who was Anna Redding (Reading).  She
married Joseph M. Gazzam, a former Pennsylvania State Senator, whom she

divorced later.  It was her dying wish that her daughter should never be
reconciled to Gazzam, and in this, as in all other things, MIss Gazzam has
followed her mother's wishes.  Mrs. Gazzam was a woman of wide charities.  She
was deeply interested in the welfare of animals, a sympathy reflected in her
daughter's anti-vivisection work.

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