A REMARKABLE FAMILY.
A remarkable divorce case is attracting great interest in Chicago. The plaintiff, Mrs Josephine Ormsby, charges her husband with drunkenness, cruelty, and desertion. During the seven years of their married life Mrs Ormsby has been the mother of one set of triplets, two pairs of twins,' three single children, and one set of quadruplets. These last are now living, the others being dead. When the quadruplets were born £200 was raised by public subscription and presented to the happy mother, who is now earning £50 a week by exhibiting herself and her offspring at a museum. Since the divorce proceedings commenced Mrs Ormsby has been deluged with offers bt marriage.
Mrb Joseph K. Ormsby, whose ■ residence is at No. 406, West Forty-third-street, Chicago, is 30 years old. This is her record, she herself being one of a family of triplets:— Three single births. Two pairs of- twins. One set of triplets.
One set of quadruplets. — Total, 14,
Mr Ormsby, the father, was once an industrious young plumber. But about three years ago he dropped work, and began studying engineering.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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182A REMARKABLE FAMILY. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7377, 1 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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