Part One:
The Jewelry and The Silver [June 1874 - January 1895]
1
Chapter 1. Josephine
7 Chapter
2. Gussie
9
Chapter 3. Eberhard
10
Chapter 4. Gussie and Eberhard’s Wedding
15
Chapter 5. The Birth of Ada
16
Chapter 6. Nina
18
Chapter 7 The Jewelry And The Silver
23
Chapter 8. The Birth of Irma
Part Two:
Dorothy and Olive [June 1886 - April 1912]
25 Chapter
1. Maesyneuadd
27
Chapter 2. Arthur Bryrde Caldwell a/k/a ABC
30
Chapter 3. Mr. Heurtley
35
Chapter 4. Olive’s Beau
Part Three:
Josephine at Wilkenburg with Nina [March 27 - May 12, 1912]
42
Chapter 1. Nina’s Invitation
45
Chapter 2. Aboard The S.S. Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
47
Chapter 3. The Schloss
53
Chapter 4. The Scandal
61
Chapter 5. Hanschen, Alice and Otto
Part Four: Back
in America [April 2 - June 28, 1912]
64
Chapter 1. The Ice Box
73
Chapter 2. Miss Gill
Part Five:
Josephine’s Last Days at Wilkenburg [May 10 - July 4, 1912]
75 Chapter
1. The Girls Arrive
77 Chapter
2. The Birth of Alexandra
78 Chapter
3. The Explosion
Part Six:
Dunkirk, New York [August 1912 - May 1913]
83 Chapter
1. A Conflict of Interest
87 Chapter
2. A Little Red House with Garden
88
Chapter 3. Jessie and her Children
98
Chapter 4. The Waiting Game
102
Chapter 5 Offer
and Counteroffer
104
Chapter 6. The Double Cross
Part Seven:
Bill, The Lord of Dawn [January 10 - May 15. 1913]
109 Chapter
1. A/k/a Ronald Temple
113
Chapter 2. Bill’s Letter of Retraction
Part
Eight: Innocents Abroad [July 1912 - September 6, 1913]
126
Chapter 1. Nina’s Volte Face
129
Chapter 2. Baden Baden
131
Chapter 3. Rome
137
Chapter 4. Menton
150
Chapter 5. Munich
153
Chapter 6. The Disclosure
Part
Nine: Noble B. Judah, The Master Brain [April 16 - August 22, 1913]
159
Chapter 1 The Portfolio Dogs
163
Chapter 2. Around Robin’s Barn With Bill’s “Reversion”
177
Chapter 3. The Settlement
181
Chapter 4. Josephine’s Push For A “Family Combine”
185
Chapter 5. Josephine’s Last Ditch Proposal
187
Chapter 6 The Human Jack Russell Terrier
Part
Ten: The Disintegration of Bill [June 7 - September 3, 1913]
195
Chapter 1. Down and Out in Oakland
200
Chapter 2. With The Roycrofters in East Aurora
Part
Eleven: Bedlam [August 31 - September 18, 1913]
204
Chapter 1. A Triple Whammy
213
Chapter 2. Josephine Stops In Chicago En Route To Salt Lake
City
216
Chapter 2. The Swath Cut by Bill and Caskalean
Part
Twelve: Salt Lake City [September 13 - November 2, 1913]
224
Chapter 1. Suicidal Tendencies
228
Chapter 2. The Decree of Divorce
230
Chapter 3. Proof of Josephine’s “Marriage” in Canada
Part
Thirteen: Bill in Sante Fe [September 14 - October 1913]
236
Chapter 1. The Hotel Montezuma
248
Chapter 2. The Last Straw
Part
Fourteen: The Girls Winter In Jaffrey Before Returning to Europe
[September 12, 1913 - April 30, 1914]
251
Chapter 1. Dorothy and Sedge, Unchaperoned
255
Chapter 2. At The Shattuck Inn
267
Chapter 3. Josephine
271
Chapter 4. Departure Plans
282
Chapter 5. Queer Feelings
Part
Fifteen: The Intransigent Mr. Wells and The Put-Upon Mr. Nelson
[November 1, 1913 - May 21, 1914]
287
Chapter 1. Nelson’s Fee
294
Chapter 2. The Golf Trophies, Two Wastepaper Baskets and An
Ashtray
296
Chapter 3. Behind Nelson’s Back
303
Chapter 4. Detroit
306
Chapter 5. A Belated Confession
311
Chapter 6. Josephine’s Most Trying Episode, Ever
317
Chapter 7. ABC Caves In
Part
Sixteen: As Josephine
Obsesses Over A Little Red House With Garden, The Lamps Go Out All
Over Europe [May 5 - Aug 20, 1914]
320
Chapter 1. The Girls Arrive in Munich
324
Chapter 2. A Little Old Fashioned House & Garden With
Apple Trees
329
Chapter 3. A False Alarm
332
Chapter 4. Josephine Challenges The Master Brain
333
Chapter 5. The Lamps Go Out All Over Europe
Part
Seventeen: Paranoia [August 11 - 20, 1914]
335
Chapter 1. A Preview of Things to Come
349
Chapter 2. Mr. Gross, And If Not Gross, Why Not Hutchinson?
342
Chapter 3.The Diatribe
Part
Eighteen: The Leonard Brothers, Surgery and Mr. Droege [August 27 -
October 19, 1914]
346
Chapter 1. Down to The Last Stack of Pads, Ball of Twine, Box
of nails, Package of Tacks, Carton of Boxes, Cake of Naphtha and Strip
of Burlap
349
Chapter 2. Under The Knife
351
Chapter 3. Mr. Droege
356
Chapter 4. The Leonard Brothers
Part
Nineteen: Cicero Acres, The Morgan Tract and Calumet Farms [March 1914
- April 30, 1918]
360
Chapter 1. The Bill For Interpretation of Will and For
Instructions To Trustee
366
Chapter 2. Interested Party Defendants
Part
Twenty: Caskalean’s Final Ploy [September - October 1914]
369
Chapter 1. Five Telegrams
372
Chapter 2. Rosalind Russell
Part
Twenty One: The Long Journey Hence [June 1916-January 1919]
375
Chapter 1. The Yogic Key
377
Chapter 2. The Long Journey Hence
Epilogue
378
Family
Trees:
Page
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(Prologue) Ancestors of Josephine, Gussie and Nina (dating back to
their first American ancestors)
3.
Joseph Edvin DeHaven’s family at the time of his death
18.
Josephine’s family before the birth of Dorothy and Olive
23.
Gussie’s family
47.
Nina’s family
62.
Alice (von Campe) von Hardenberg’s family
64.
Ted’s family (before the birth of Richard)
Images:
Page
1.
Joseph DeHaven (father of Josephine, Gussie and Nina)
2.
Mademoiselle Bork (Joseph’s second wife and stepmother of the three
sisters) and
Louisa Bigelow (grandmother of
the Josephine, Gussie and Nina)
4.
Abraham Bigelow (husband of Louisa Bigelow)
7.
Gussie as a teenager
8.
Baron Eberhard von Alten (Gussie’s husband)
16.
Nina as a teenager
18.
Josephine with her baby son Bill Caldwell
23.
Ada and Irma von Alten (Gussie’s daughters)
26.
Maesyneuadd, Josephine’s home in Northern Wales
28.
Bill Caldwell with Dare Devil Dink of Ireland
30.
Letterhead of The Northern Trust Company of Chicago
48.
Wilkenburg, Nina’s home near Hannover, Germany
56.
Gussie and letterhead of The Palast Hotel in Meran, Switzerland
(Gussie to Heurtley on December 14, 1913)
57.
Excerpt from Gussie’s letter to Heurtley of December 14, 1913
62.
Otto and Alice von Campe , two of Nina’s children
73.
Olive (Josephine’s youngest child)
74.
A Bill dated June 28, 1912, for dresses purchased by Olive from Miss
Gill on Boyleston Street in Boston
137.
Letterhead of the Hotel D’Albion in Menton, France (Dorothy to
Heurtley on March 4,1913)
159.
Letterhead of Judah, Willard, Wolf & Reichmann (Judah to Heurtley on
April 5, 1913)
187.
Letterhead of William, Wharton, Jr. & Co, Incorporated (Richard
Chapman, sales agent, to Heurtley on April 18, 1913)
216.
Letterhead of the Pekin American and Chinese Restaraunt in Buffalo, New
York (Nate Fenton, Proprietor to Heurtley on September 12, 1913)
218.
Letterhead of the Chautauqua Motor Company (E. (Ted) DeH. Caldwell,
Pres. & Chief Engineer, to Heurtley on September 15, 1913)
220.
Bill dated September 15, 1913, for bed and board at Emerson Hall to Mr.
[Bill] Caldwell on letterhead of the Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, New
York
237.
Letterhead of The Montezuma Hotel in Sante Fe, New Mexico (Bill Caldwell
to Heurtley on September 16, 1913)
255.
Letterhead of The Shattuck Inn in Jaffrey, New Hampshire (Olive to
“Dearest Uncle Arthur” Heurtley on November 1, 1913)
272.
Letterhead of the Hotel Carlton in Berkeley, California (Josephine to
Heurtley on January 12, 1914)
300.
Letterhead of the Detroit Steamless Steel Tubes Company (Daniel Wells to
Josephine on February 5, 1914)
315.
Letterhead of the “Absolutely Fireproof” Hotel Pontchartrain in
Detroit (Josephine to Heurtley on April 29, 1914)
324.
Josephine, dreaming of a little red house with garden
347.
Letterhead of Leonards’ Reliable Storage Co. (Leonard Brothers to
Heurtley on August 26, 1914)
353.
Letterhead of the Merchants National Bank of Dunkirk (Henry H. Droege,
Vice President and Cashier, to Heurtley on October 2, 1914)
363. Bill For
Interpretation Of Will And For Instructions To Trustee (filed August 14,
1914)
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