JULIE E. MANIERRE

was at home with her parents in Chicago when the US census of 1910 was enumerated. Her age was returned as 29 years and her birthplace was given up as Illinois [United States Census, 1910, index and images, FamilySearch] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MKZZ-ZVB

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The following account of Marguerite Brown (Manierre) was written by Gene Edson, and emailed to Michael R. Delahunt, November 1, 2010:

Julie Edson Manierre, b. 29-Mar-1881 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois, d. 0-Sep-1965 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara Co, California, ref number 185-131, occupation 43D2543.3. Julie Edson Manierre (185-131) had outstanding artistic ability, expressed in many fields, but particularly in sculpture, for which she received many awards. She was greatly interested in her family genealogy, and published a book, "The Edson Story", the early proceeds of which were devoted towards the memorial to Deacon Samuel Edson, placed in West Bridgewater town park by the site of his old mill. She lived in La Jolla, California. She married William Brayton Mann, 24-Feb-1917 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois.

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Article in the Chicago Daily Tribune, December 13, 1923, pg. 1:

Mann Jealous of Her Songs, of Phillipe, Too

[byline:] By Genevieve Forbes
(Pictures on back page.)
Waukegan, Ill., Dec. 12.
Mrs. Julie Manierre Mann, Chicago singer and society woman, flies into hysterical rages when her home made ice cream is criticized; receives ardent cables from her "Cher Phillipe" over in Europe, and left her husband Dec. 3, 1920, alleges Mr. Mann in his bill for divorce, charging his wife with desertion.
Mrs. Mann is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Cyrus Edson Manierre, daughter of Carter H. Harrison, five times mayor of Chicago.
William B. Mann, former counsel for the Illinois Bell Telephone company, has a vile temper, swears, bosses household details, is so stingy he rides with the top of his auto down to save gasoline, and enters a room before his wife, in addition to having slapped her hands four times and kicked her once, alleges Mrs. Mann in her cross bill charging her husband with extreme and repeated cruelty.

Up to Judge and Jury.===

Judge Claire C. Edwards and eleven jurors started here today to try to decide who is right in the controversy that is interesting social circles in Chicago and Lake Forest.
Following his luncheon this noon, Juror William Hanke, a farmer from Antioch, was taken home sick and excused from service.
Attorney David K. Tone of Chicago, counsel for Mr. Mann, in his opening statement declared that Mrs. Mann never knew her husband was cruel from their wedding day, Feb. 24, 1917, to Dec. 3, 1920, when she saw him off to Florida, and promised to follow soon. The "discovery" of his cruelty, Attorney Tone stated, was due to the influence of her father, William R. Manierre, 1507 North Dearborn parkway, and of young Phillip Bondy of "somewhere in Europe."

What Cablegrams Started.===

On Mann's return from Florida, April 3, 1921, he went to see his wife at her father's home. While waiting for her return, his counsel said, Mann saw a cablegram from Bondy to his wife. Dated March 28, 1921, it read:
Julie Edson, 1507 Dearborn parkway:
"Very best birthday wishes.
"Devotedly,
PHILLIP."
Close by, the lawyer declared was a copy of Mrs. Mann's reply, written April 3, 1921.
"Phillip cherie," it began, "your cable came on the eve of my birthday, and I cannot begin to tell you how happy it made me. It means more to have one's birthday remembered than any other day, and your cable has always made the day for me.
"It made a happy day in the place of the sad one that has been for so long. Husband has never remembered it, so I no longer expect it. He is still in Florida. He has not written since I refused to sign away my right to the property. I am considering taking up some kind of business course either now or later, so I won't be so helpless in handling my affairs.

Billy Won't Like It.===

"Also I am having a little will made whereby I will leave all but Billy's one-third share to my baby boy in trust. I know Billy won't like it, but he will be lucky to get his third.
"Besides these serious things, I am deaply interested in the program I am going to give at the conservatory. I am in good voice and technique is coming quite well, so that if I make a success of it I am going to push it as far as I can.
"There is a chap here by the name of Christmas, known by all of us as 'Criss,' who is playing such a role among us. He is connected with the grand opera in the office and singing beautifully himself. He is about 25 years old, I guess, or a little older, and is a tremendously nice fellow. He has taken an interest in my singing and also had me help him with his. He may be a friend in need later if I want to get in touch with bigger things. Not opera, though.
"Well, dearie, I must close, but I send you all my loving appreciation.
"From JULIE."
In a letter written from his enforced bachelor quarters at their Lake Forest home to his wife, still at her father's town house, Mann, on the 17th of that April, refers to her musical career.
"Don't, don't, Julie, dear," he pleads, "let your ambition for a new, independent life, as you suggest, overshadow your plain duty to refrain from doing anything that will leave a black mark on little Billy and render him a fatherless boy."

"Dear Phillip" Mere Boy.===

In his opening statement, Attorney Edmund D. Adcock, Chicago counsel for Mrs. Mann, dismissed the reference to yound Bondy as "ridiculous," explaining that his client had met him, a boy of 15, in Europe in 1913, and had corresponded openly, and with her husband's consent.
"Mann," Mr. Adcock said, "was finicky; flew into a rage if his wife touched his private table knife, bossed little details about sending sending out the laundry, always served himself first, went through a door first, made his wife drive in the broiling sun with the auto top down, because it saved gasoline. He excused even his profanity by saying, 'I am no Chesterfield.' But that doesn't excuse cruelty."

Details Cruelty Charges.===

Mr. Adcock outlined the charges of Mann four times slapping his wife's hand, of having kicked her once in the abdomen, a month before the premature birth of her child.

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Article in the Chicago Daily Tribune, December 14, 1923, pg. 1:

Mann Admits Ten Oaths to His Wife's One=

[byline:] By Genevieve Forbes
Waukegan, Ill., Dec. 13
Every time his wife, Mrs. Julie Manierre Mann, society singer, used a swear word William B. Mann, Yale graduate and former attorney for the Illinois Bell Telephone company used ten, he admitted today on the witness stand before Judge Claire C. Edwards.
Ten to one. He thought his profanity score on the right marital basis and wrote his wife to that effect in a letter introduced into evidence late this afternoon after a bitter contest by his counsel, David K. Tone, Sidney H. Block, and George W. Field.
By this letter Attorneys Edmund D. Adcock and Albert H. Hall, counsel for tMrs. Mann, seek to impeach Mann, who previously denied having admitted that he ever used profanity or obscene language.

Sets Profanity Etiquette.===

After a battle of more than an hour the jury was called into the courtroom and the following excerpt from Mr. Mann's letter written to his wife April 18, 1921, read to them.
Husbands, most of them, the jurors smiled a bit as they listened to a revelation of domestic profanity a la society.
"Let us agree," Mann's letter reads in part, "that I have used profane language many times. And you have likewise used it, but not of the harsher sort, and no obscene language. Let's call it ten to one; my ten; your one. Is that fair?
"I'd give anything if I had never used it. It is undignified, shows lack of poise, and is utterly and wholly wrong."

Dobyn's Story Important.===

Tomorrow morning Fletcher Dobyns, former counsel for Mrs. Mann, will take the stand for the defense, and it is expected, will seek to invalidate Mr. Mann's suit for divorce charging dissertion on the grounds that the bill was filed in May, 1923, less than two years from the date, according to Dobyns, on which the Manns separated.
Evidence regarding tan agreement to live apart from April 15 to June 15, 1921, was ruled out yesterday on cross-examination of Mr. Mann and will be presented tomorrow through Mr. Dobyns' testimony.
According to Mr. Mann's bill, his wife deserted him Dec.13, 1920, when he went to Florida. Upon his return to Chicago, April 3, 1921, Mann today testified Mrs. Mann refused to go with him to their Lake Forest home.
Mr.Dobyns' testimony, it is expected, will tell of their mutual agreement to live apart for two months. During that time Mann paid his wife $75 a month. Such testimony, it is expected by Mrs. Mann's counsel, will bring the date of separation to June 5, 1921, and thereby will throw out the bill filed in May, 1923.
"If we invalidate Mr. Mann's bill," Mr. Dobyns said tonight, "I do not know what disposition will be made of Mrs. Mann's cross bill for divorce, charging extreme and repeated cruelty. It will be a case almost [unintelligible] in law."

Ready to Take Wife Back.===

On the stand today Mr. Mann repeated his willingness and desire to "take mrs. Mann back any time" and admitted that love of their 5-year-old son, Billy, and desire to see him and educate him, was an important factor in his wish for reconciliation.
After telling of several unsuccessful attempts to see his son, during the last two years, Mr. Mann related the climax of his visits to his wife and child at the home of his father-in-law, William R. Manierre, 1507 North Dearborn parkway.
It was on the sixth of June, 1921, that the attorney, who was then, he stated, "working as a laborer from sunrise to sunset, remodeling our Lake Forest home," called at the Dearborn parkway home and was ushered into the drawing room by the maid.
After keeping him waiting twenty minutes until she finished her luncheon, his wife came in. She urged him to pay some bills, he declared.
"I got to the front hall," Mann said, "and my wife's brother, Harold Manierre, rushed in and struck me twice behind the right ear. Then he ran into the drawing room and shook a heavy piece of Chinese bric-a-brac at me."
As this scene was taking place in the luxuriously appointed drawing room, a youngster, on the floor above, heard the disturbance and cried out: "That's my daddy downstairs."

Driven from Wife's Home.===

Mr. Mann forgot that he was the attorney witness and became the passionate father as he said softly: "The nurse carried my son [c.3] half way down the stairs. I went up half way and took him in my arms. Just then Harold appeared on the stairs with a revolver. He pointed it at the middle of my body and shouted: 'Get out of here, Billy, or I'll fire.' Mrs. Mann tried to wave him back, but he came down the stairs."
"Then," he said, simply, "the nurse and the baby went with me to the corner of Dearborn parkway and North avenue and we walked for fifteen minutes."
Balancing itself through the trial against a father's love for the child whom he cannot see often are the wife's financial difficulties. [Here the text of the clipping of the article terminates.]

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A listing for the summer home (1918) of
Mr. Wm R. Manierre, Miss Aline Manierre, and Mr. Harold Manierre, Mr. & Mrs. Wm B. Mann (Julie E. Manierre), and Mr. & Mrs. Rufus B. Rogers (Wilhelmine Manierre), "Millside," Harbor Point, Michigan, phone number 40

Source: Downloaded November 2, 2012, Social Register, Summer, Social Register Association, 1918, page 421, from GoogleBooks at http://books.google.com/books

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Text: "...To Any Part of the City NEWLYWED GETS DEATH THREAT Mrs William E Mann who was Miss Julie Manierre until her wedding Saturday and who has been marked for death by poison pen authoress in letter to police ... Mrs Mann was Miss Julia Manierre daughter of William R Manierre 1507 Dearborn parkway. Her wedding Saturday was an important social event. Miss Zimmerman is a daughter of Bernard H Zimmerman 2522 Lexington ... police yesterday sent the police scrawled death threats against Mrs William E Mann a ..."

source: Date: Mar 2 1917, Publication: The Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
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