Talk:James Harden-Hickey

Of Which Empire was J.H-H. a baron?
I have taken the liberty--or responded to the obligation, depending on how one views the English language--to rephrase the main article, but I have one factual question.

Did not Napoleon I dissolve the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 or thereabouts? Was Harden-Hickey made a baron of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which succeeded it, or, since he was so hot on the French Second Empire and was moreover at least half ethnic French was it that empire which ennobled him?

Terry J. Carter (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

This account states "Baron of the Holy Roman Empire". This must be self-assumed, as he was not of a noble family. I note also that some of the text is not neutral - for instance the implied acceptance of the validity of his claims to be "Prince of Trinidad". Ncox (talk) 00:01, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Anne Harper Flager was not Henry Morrison Flagler's daughter!
A previous version of this article stated that Anne Flagler was the daughter of H.M. Flagler, partner of John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil and a rather famous land developer in Florida. He had the idea of linking the Florida Keys with the Overseas Railway, a project which ended so tragically due to a hurricane. Henry Flagler's only daughters were Carrie, who died in infancy, and Jennie Louise, who married a man named Hinckley, not Hickey, divorcing him for adultery (his) after eleven years. She then married a man named Frederick Hart Benedict and died in 1889 as the result of an unsuccessful pregnancy. This information is from Florida's Flagler by Sidney Walter Martin and Flagler, by Edward N. Akin.

Anne Harper Flagler's father was John Haldane Flagler, one-time partner of Andrew Carnegie in the steel business and later a successful steel pipe magnate in his own right. I am awaiting the arrival of sources by interlibrary loan so that I can footnote that. Degrees of Flagler confusion are many. Many supposedly informed sources say Henry was Anne's father, and even some of those who correctly identify him as John then proceed to describe him by details of Henry's life.

More as the information becomes available.

Terry J. Carter (talk) 00:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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