MILLIONAIRE FINANCIER
MARRIES A CHAMBERMAID , Frank W. Savin, 76-year-old bankbroker and second oldest member ot the New xoVk Stock Exchange, was married last month to Anna Mary Schlies, a former 43-ycar-old chambermaid in his 75-room mansion. The butler afforded reporters -the only iheans of gaining knowledge of the ceremony. . The only guests beside the servants, the butler said, were Savin’s son T-iid daughter by previous marriage, whom he has disinherited, Miss Schlies, daughter of a Czech farmer, is Savin’s fourth" wife. The couple obtained a marriage license, and the ceremony was in the -great living-room at 'Winchester Hall, as Savin’s chateau-like house is Ca when applying for the license Savin interrupted Miss Schlies ex planation of her with “she' doesn't work.” . ...-t Eater Miss Schlies told of how the boss.” proposed to her. _ “It seems like a dream, she said. "The boss called me In his study Sunday night. You know I’ve been more or less looking after him all these years. He told me he was getting old and needed somebody to look after him. “ ‘l’m all alone,’ ” he told me, and then he said he’d been watching me and wanted mo to marry him. Well, it came rather suddenly but i C °lavin’s third wife. Sarah Monroe Treadwell had been his housekeeper before their marriage. His second was Sarah Hamilton West, the Sadie West of the Bexnow investigation in vice and gambling the “World” says. Savin’s father, a sea captain, cut him off with one dollar in bis will, but ho soon made a fortune ir> stocks and bonds. _ After his third marriage, -Savin adopted his 45-year-old brother-in-law, Charles Edy Monroe, and referred to him as his “only child* having disinherited his-own two children.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3542, 25 February 1927, Page 9
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