![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Lily was well-educated for a woman in the late 19th century: she both attended school in Wilmington, and attended Peace College in Raleigh. By the late 1870s, her family lived in Wilmington, North Carolina Mary Lily attended Amy Bradley’s Tileston school in Wilmington. ![]() When she was little, her father was a life insurance agent. She was the daughter of William Rand Kenan Sr and Mary Hargrave Kenan, Mary Lily was born in Duplin County, on June 14, 1867. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler and inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died under suspicious circumstances at aged fifty. She left the millions she inherited to members of her family and to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.īefore she became famous and extraordinarily wealthy, Mary Lily grew up in an affluent household. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867-1917) was an American philanthropist and heiress who became notorious when she married one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. ![]()
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