Friday, May 23, 2008

Dayton Had Two Wives

New York, 1895

On Friday Justice Cullen granted a decree of absolute divorce in favor of Ella Dayton against John R. Dayton. The parties to the action live in Riverhead. The testimony was that in 1894 the husband married another woman, Elizabeth Walton.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 15, 1895, p. 1.

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