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[L Verge]

(05-09-2019 04:05 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(05-09-2019 12:59 PM)Steve Wrote:  Who is "Hugh B. Ryan"? And why does he have an alias?

I don't know, but will ask Colleen to check that listing.

Here's the response from Colleen after checking the David E. George file (which takes up an entire drawer of the Hall Papers). Notice that she has quoted a note that Mr. Hall taped to the front of the Hugh B. Ryan file:

Mr. Hall must have anticipated this question because a file summary is typed up and taped to the front of the file as follows:

On Dec 31, 1902 David E. George made a will in Enid, OK Territory. In this he left a bartender, Isaac Bernstein, the proceeds of an insurance policy George alleged he had in the Knights of Pythias, Lodge #70, Dallas- $3,000 he said. No such person belonged to this lodge, as can be seen from the membership lists. But this led to an investigation of the possibility that Hugh B. Ryan, who did belong, was an alias for George- or conversely. The papers in this file cover my investigation. I am inclined to believe that the Ryan name was an alias- but the proof is a bit thin. JOHall.