Curtis Bean Dall

<table><tr><td>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjhonson/Dall3.jpg<br>"Sistie" and "Buzzie" visit their father Curtis Dall, during a vacation April 1935 at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia</td><td>The divorce on the grounds of "mental cruelty" was not contested.  "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, [[Nevada|Nev]]." (Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Anna was awarded custody of the children, but the financial details and custodial arrangements were kept private. Just after the divorce, the children spent two weeks with their father.  Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, Anna married former journalist John Boettiger, now assistant to Will Hays head of the Motion Picture Producers Association.  John had also just divorced his wife.  John's "...former wife and two children reside in Glencoe, a suburb of Chicago." (see [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=40239433&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=16 ''Syracuse Herald'', 18 Jan 1935], page 11)  John and Anna had a small private ceremony with a few members of the family.  There were no bitter feelings as the ''Oelwein Daily Register'' on 18 Jan 1935 reports, "Dall Congratulates His Ex-Wife". ^{[[#Footnotes 4|N]]} Initially John, Anna and the two children lived in New York.  A rather long article about Anna occupied half of [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=87017731&currentResult=14&src=search&firstvisit=true page 4 in the 30 Jun 1936 issue of the ''Waterloo Daily Courier'']. John and Anna moved to Seattle in the latter-half of 1936 "...where he became manager of a Hearst-owned newspaper."^{[[#Footnotes 4|M]]}  Her two children joined them, just after Christmas.  The newspaper was identified in a May 1937 article in the ''Nevada State Journal'' as the ''Seattle Post Intelligencer'', for which John was the publisher and Anna the "women's editor".  By John, Anna had her third child John Roosevelt Boettiger on 29 Mar 1939. After John's death on 31 October 1950, Anna married thirdly on 11 November 1952 at Malibu, [[California]], as his second wife, to James Addison Halsted.</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjhonson/Dall3.jpg<br>"Sistie" and "Buzzie" visit their father Curtis Dall, during a vacation April 1935 at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia</td><td>The divorce on the grounds of "mental cruelty" was not contested.  "Mrs. Dall was divorced from her first husband, Curtis B. Dall, July 30, at Minden, [[Nevada|Nev]]." (Syracuse Herald, Jan 18, 1935, p 11) Anna was awarded custody of the children, but the financial details and custodial arrangements were kept private. Just after the divorce, the children spent two weeks with their father.  Six months after her divorce, on January 18, 1935, Anna married former journalist John Boettiger, now assistant to Will Hays head of the Motion Picture Producers Association.  John had also just divorced his wife.  John's "...former wife and two children reside in Glencoe, a suburb of Chicago." (see [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=40239433&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=16 ''Syracuse Herald'', 18 Jan 1935], page 11)  John and Anna had a small private ceremony with a few members of the family.  There were no bitter feelings as the ''Oelwein Daily Register'' on 18 Jan 1935 reports, "Dall Congratulates His Ex-Wife". ^{[[#Footnotes 4|N]]} Initially John, Anna and the two children lived in New York.  A rather long article about Anna occupied half of [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=87017731&currentResult=14&src=search&firstvisit=true page 4 in the 30 Jun 1936 issue of the ''Waterloo Daily Courier'']. John and Anna moved to Seattle in the latter-half of 1936 "...where he became manager of a Hearst-owned newspaper."^{[[#Footnotes 4|M]]}  Her two children joined them, just after Christmas.  The newspaper was identified in a May 1937 article in the ''Nevada State Journal'' as the ''Seattle Post Intelligencer'', for which John was the publisher and Anna the "women's editor".  By John, Anna had her third child John Roosevelt Boettiger on 29 Mar 1939. After John's death on 31 October 1950, Anna married thirdly on 11 November 1952 at Malibu, [[California]], as his second wife, to James Addison Halsted.</td></tr></table>

Curtis appears frequently in newspapers several being brief mentions mostly in relation to an article on Anna or the Roosevelt family, or mentioning some occasional trip or visit he made with his children.  In Jul 1934 he is being called "Curtis Dall of Chicago", but by 1936 he is again "Curtis Dall of New York".  Several times it's mentioned that he is visiting Governor Herring of Iowa.  There is the barest mention that Curtis is suing ''Time Magazine'' for libel in 1935 or '36 but with no details, but then in 1937 we get the details.  The [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=12255275&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=25 ''Frederick News-Post'', 6 May 1937, page 5, "Turns Down Verdict Against Curtis Dall"]^{[[#Footnotes 4|O]]}  Curtis married secondly in 1938 to Katharine Miller Leas (1917-2000), they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James.  In the 1930's "...he helped to organize what later became the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company of Houston, one of the largest corporations in the country.  But he sold his interest before the company's real growth began."^{[[#Footnotes 1|A]]}  He served as a Col in the "Army Air Force" from 1942 until the close of World War II.  In the 1940's, he became active in politics, campaigning "...for Strom Thurmond, who was the Presidential nominee of the conservative States' Rights Party".^{[[#Footnotes 1|A]]}

Curtis appears frequently in newspapers several being brief mentions mostly in relation to an article on Anna or the Roosevelt family, or mentioning some occasional trip or visit he made with his children.  In Jul 1934 he is being called "Curtis Dall of Chicago", but by 1936 he is again "Curtis Dall of New York".  Several times it's mentioned that he is visiting Governor Herring of Iowa.  There is the barest mention that Curtis is suing ''Time Magazine'' for libel in 1935 or '36 but with no details, but then in 1937 we get the details.  The [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=12255275&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=25 ''Frederick News-Post'', 6 May 1937, page 5, "Turns Down Verdict Against Curtis Dall"]^{[[#Footnotes 4|O]]}  Curtis married secondly in 1938 to Katharine Miller Leas (1917-2000), they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James.  In the 1930's "...he helped to organize what later became the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company of Houston, one of the largest corporations in the country.  But he sold his interest before the company's real growth began."^{[[#Footnotes 1|A]]}  He served as a Col in the "Army Air Force" from 1942 until the close of World War II.  In the 1940's, he became active in politics, campaigning "...for Strom Thurmond, who was the Presidential nominee of the conservative States' Rights Party".^{[[#Footnotes 1|A]]}