Talk:Edna Wallace Hopper

Alexander Dunsmuir
I have moved this section on Alexander Dunsmuir who had an affair with Edna Wallace Hopper's mother. It should be in its own article. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:36, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

"When Edna was still young her parents took in a wealthy boarder, Alexander Dunsmuir (1853-1900), co-heir to the Dunsmuir coal and shipping fortune. Alex and Josephine fell in love, and Wally left with the children. Josephine was lonely for her children, and they made a cash settlement with Wally, so they could have Edna back. Wally sued for divorce, but Alex had parents who disapproved of his new love and so their marriage had to wait.

Alex began to drink heavily. In spring 1886, he disappeared in San Francisco on a drinking binge. He went missing for ten days, and shortly after being found suffered from delirium tremens.

After Alex's father died in 1889, Alex and his brother tried to buy their mother out, but she had been left in control. Finally it happened. Alex then bought the estate of Souther Farm, now known as Dunsmuir House, in Oakland, California at a cost of $350,000 and deeded it to Josephine.

On their much-delayed wedding day, Alex made out a will leaving everything else to his brother James. They married December 21, 1899 at a hotel in San Pablo, California and honeymooned in New York City."