Adele Bean (Cantrell)

Married to W. Littell White prior to TL Bean. The marriage had a scandalous end to it: (from local PA press) " SOCIETY MATRON AND LAWYER ACCUSED OF ALIENATING HER LOVE "

(included photo montage) "Mrs Adele Cantrell White and Theodore Lane Bean" ' Mrs. White, who has a passion for horseback riding, is the wife of Mr. Littell White, the general manager of the S.S. White Dental Manufacuring Company. He has sued Mr. Bean for $50,000.00 damages. The lawyer, who has a country home in Port Kennedy Pa., formerly was Assistant District Attorney of Montgomery County. Mrs. White is now living in Wayne.

• • The Cantrell family aligned with the Beans even after their daughter married Theodore Lane Bean in 1917:

1. 1 on the guest list at Elizabeth Lee Bean's 1929 wedding to Frank Wildman was Mrs. Abram W. Trimble (Adele's sister) So, it seems the Cantrell family did't take their daughter's alienation from her first husband too hard. •
2. 27 on list Miss Jean Cantrell and Mr. Donald Cantrell
3. 28 Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Cantrell jr.

(an additional clipping) Philadelphia (paper) Sunday morning, November 29, 192?

Engagements Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Lane Bean, of Norristown, Pa., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Margaret White, and Daniel Stewart Holder, of New York, son of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Curtis Holder of New Orleans. Miss. White is a graduate of the Agnes Irwin School, this city, class of 1924. Mr. Holder was graduated from Harvard in the same year. No date has been set for the wedding.

Libby Bean and Margaret (step sisters) were a year apart at Agnes Irwin School which (I believe) was in Philadelphia in that era.

At the end of her life, Adele, then a widow, lived at 206 Price St., Narberth, PA (apartment) with her servant and companion Sarah Brown.

address in 1917: Luella Apartments, Wayne, PA. drivers license source. #9339 state of PA Theo. Lane Bean's listed address was 317 Swede St., Norristown ; in the same reference work