Edith May Houghton ^{3 4 5}

   Another name for Edith was Edith May Honghton.¹

   FamilySearch ID: LVS5-MQK.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Chicago, Cook, IL. ⁶ The 1880 census recorded at 3245 Arnold Street: George Houghton, stone dealer, 40, living with wife Esther, 36; William 11; daughter Georgie E., 9; Edith M., 7; James N., 5; Charles E., 3; and servant Lulu Wingers, 16. George and his parents were born in New York. Esther and her parents were born in Canada. Their children were born in Illinois.

2. Census in 1900 in Chicago, Cook, IL. ⁷ The 1900 census recorded renting a home in the Town of Lake: S. E. Beecher, physician, 27, Feb 1873, living with wife Edith H., 26, May 1874. He and his parents were born in New York. She was born in Illinois and her parents in New York. They were married in 1898 and had birthed no children by 1900.

3. Newspaper: Oakland Tribune: Gets Divorce After Trailing Husband and Mysterious Woman, 4 Mar 1910, Oakland, Alameda, CA. ² Gets Divorce After Trailing Husband and Mysterious Woman

NEW YORK - How Mrs. Edith Beecher acted as a detective was revealed today when she was granted a decree of divorce from her husband, Dr. Samuel E. Beecher, a dentist with offices at 55 State street, by Judge Adelor S. Petit. The decree was granted on statutory grounds. Beyond filing an answer in which he denied his wife's allegations, Dr. Beecher offered no defense to the proceedings. When the suit was filed a short time ago both Dr. and Mrs. Beecher, who lived at 901 North State street, denied that there was any trouble between them or that they were the persons named in the bill. Later it was learned that they had agreed to deny everything in order to avoid publicity.
On the stand Mrs. Beecher told the story of how, becoming suspicious of her husband during his conversation over heard him making an appointment over the telephone, she resolved to follow him until she learned either that her fears were ungrounded or that her husband was really unfaithful to her. The night of February 4, the date agreed upon by her husband during his conversation over the telephone which aroused the suspicions of the spouse, Mrs. Beecher, with two friends as witnesses - Joseph R. Rogers and J. S. Ward - waited in the shadow of the Masonic temple for Dr. Beecher.
At 8:30, according to her story, he arrived, meeting a few moments later a mysterious woman. When they left Mrs. Beecher, with her two assistants, dogged the footsteps of her husband and the "mysterious woman" to the Randolph hotel, 70 Randolph street, where they were seen to enter. Mrs. Beecher waited fifteen minutes and then left with Rogers. Ward, according to his testimony, followed Dr. Beecher into the hotel, where they took an elevator and went upstairs to the hotel offices. The witness testified that after he had seen Dr. Beecher registered there he also went home. By agreement Dr. Beecher will pay his wife $60 a month alimony. He refused to discuss the decree.

4. Residence: on 4 Mar 1910 in New York, New York, NY. ²

5. Census on 16 Apr 1910 in Chicago, Cook, IL. ⁸ The 1910 census on April 16th recorded renting at 1736 Clark Street: Edith M. Beecher, 30, living with a boarder, Rose A. Harmon, 30. Neither has an occupation. Edith was born in Illinois, her father in New York, and mother in "Canada English". Her marital status is single. Rose and her parents were born in Illinois and her marital status is single.

6. Residence: 643 E. Grace St., Chicago, IL on 12 Sep 1918 in Chicago, Cook, IL. ⁴

Edith married Samuel Edgar Beecher, son of George Calvin Beecher and Martha Savilla Eicholtz, on 10 Apr 1898 in Chicago, Cook, IL.^{1 2} The marriage ended in divorce on 4 Mar 1910. (Samuel Edgar Beecher was born on 31 Oct 1870 in Arendtsville, Adams, PA,^{9 10} died on 6 Jun 1943 in Chicago, Cook, IL ⁹ and was buried on 8 Jun 1943 in Skokie: Memorial Park Cemetery, Cook, IL ⁹.)

Edith next married C. Edward Stenning on 20 Dec 1917 in Elgin, Kane, IL.³ (C. Edward Stenning was born on 15 Dec 1875 in Chicago, Cook, IL,^{4 11} died on 18 Jul 1943 in Chicago, Cook, IL ¹¹ and was buried on 21 Jul 1943 in Chicago, Cook, IL ¹¹.)