All posts tagged "suicide"
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11.6K2Business and LaborThe Revolutionary Currency Crash Makes William Beadle a Mass Murderer
By the opening of the American Revolution, William Beadle was a successful Connecticut merchant and patriot. Before the end of it, he...
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18.9KbostonAvis Linnell, Murdered by Her Minister, Inspires ‘An American Tragedy’
The 1911 murder of a 19-year-old music student, Avis Linnell, in the Boston YWCA was one of the most sensational crimes in...
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46.7K13Crime and ScandalThe 1788 Scandal of Fanny Apthorp Never Dies
In 1788, a young Boston heiress named Fanny Apthorp killed herself after giving birth to her powerful brother-in-law’s child. She left a...
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9.1K2MassachusettsCapt. John Underhill Gets Un-Banished From Massachusetts Bay, 1640
Capt. John Underhill paid a steep price for crossing the early Puritan establishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was banished, and...
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7.5K1Business and LaborColumbus Smith Found Fortune Abroad, Sadness at Home.
Columbus Smith, a Vermont lawyer, found in 1844 he could make a fortune by researching old deeds to locate the rightful heirs...
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