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Virginia Myers (21 October 1906-) was a dancer before she was five years old. Her parents were artists in New York City (Jerome Myers was a painter, Ethel Myers was a sculptor), who encouraged their daughter's expressive movements with private, and eventually public, exhibitions. She danced for an early film. In 1916, there was a Vanity Fair article about her. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Myers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BEDownes/Ethel_Myers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ethel_Myers_%26_Daughter_5_yea... ques.com/myers/html/virginia.html www.imdb.com/title/tt1056052/ A much later photo of her, still dancing: www.loc.gov/pictures/item/agc1996000079/PP/

see also: www.zoominfo.com/#!search/profile/person?personId=2830450... Is she still living?

Seems unlikely, but I guess she was an unlikely person! I've seen 1975 listed as her date of death; would like to find an obituary or gravesite to be sure. Her father died in 1940, from a fall; her mother died in 1962; they had a grandson, Barry Downes, who is still alive and must be the son of Virginia Myers. He's been working on wikipedia entries about his grandparents, and he's surely the one to ask. Couple more links about Jerome: www.delart.org/collections/HFS_library/finding_aids/jerom... giam.typepad.com/100_years_of_illustration/2011/05/jerome... (I think the art professor at the University of Iowa is a different person.)

ok, the professor was born 1927 and is not the same person. Unclear what happened to the dancer. Thanks for the information.

"William Farnum (born July 4, 1876, Boston, Massachusetts – died June 5, 1953, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) was a major movie actor." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farnum

In 1915, he insured his face for $ 100'000. See The Washington times, March 24, 1915, HOME EDITION, Page 11 The daily Missourian, August 27, 1916, Page Three, Image 13 describes him as one of the greatest and roughest actors in the business, but "in all his roughness there is not a person in the world that could be offended".

Helen Mettler (1910-1926); killed in an accidental fall at Taggart Canyon near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, age 16. She was the daughter of Helen Fleischmann and John Wyckoff Mettler; John W. Mettler (1878-1952) was president of the Interwoven Stocking Company. The family was vacationing in Wyoming at the time of Helen's death. Helen's gravesite: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16725467 Apparently Helen Mettler kept a diary during her family visits to Wyoming, and in the last entry wrote "God Bless Wyoming, and keep it wild." Thus young Miss Mettler is quoted often, in various discussions of Wyoming land management, etc., to this day. (Many of these quotations further say she died in 1925, but apparently that's only the date of the last diary entry.)

Her mother, Helen Fleischmann, was the daughter of Maximilian Fleischmann (1846-1890) and Johanna Mueller (?-1936). Max Fleischmann was a co-founder of the Fleischmann's Yeast Company (which eventually became Fleischmann's Co and was a major international company). The extended Fleischmann family owned a summer compound of great camps in the Catskills, where Helen Fleischmann spent her childhood summers. The community was named after the Fleischmann family after a gift of a park and baseball field by Max and Johanna's nephews, who owned the Cincinnati Reds. I now own the only building still standing in the original compound as an inn and retreat center, and it is in the process of being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Pictures at spillian.com