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94. The Palm Beach Chronicles: Henry M. Flagler and His Wives | Mary Harkness, Ida Alice Shourds, and Mary Lily Kenan

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Continuing in our Palm Beach Chronicles, this week we pick up the thread of Henry M. Flagler, big time deal in the town, and the tragic history of his three wives: Mary Harkness, Ida Alice Shourds, and Mary Lily Kenan. All sources can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Dun & Dun.

0:31.6

I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey,

0:34.6

All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything

0:39.5

is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we continue through our Palm Beach Chronicles.

0:45.7

We're going to connect a few other pieces in our story today because love and breakups can be tough

0:52.7

in Palm Beach. In our first episode today, we're going to focus in on

0:57.0

the wives of Henry M. Flagler, original developer Palm Beach. We got into his history a bit

1:03.9

in the last episode, but now it gets even messier. We're going to talk about old Henry's

1:10.0

love life and his three wives. Mary,

1:13.6

Ida Alice, and Mary Lily. It doesn't go just a little bit of biography for Henry Flagler here.

1:45.6

He was born January the 2nd in 1830 in Hopewell, New York.

1:51.1

At the age of 14, young Henry will head to Bellevue, Ohio, to get a job with his cousins.

1:58.7

His cousins are the Harknesses. Twelve years later, Henry is going to

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