When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had sung, lectured on Indians, ridden a horse at New York's Hippodrome. She studied enough law to defend her $5,000,000 legacy from her husband against the children of the first Mrs. Croker. She became one of the largest landed proprietors of West Palm Beach.
Last week, along with Miss M. Lawrence Wetherill, Philadelphia socialite etcher, she was nominated for West Palm Beach's town...
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