The notorious Mrs. Clem : murder and money in the Gilded Age / Wendy Gamber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gamber, Wendy, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clem, Nancy E.

Women murderers--Indiana--Biography.

Murder--Indiana--Case studies.

Crime--Indiana--History--19th century.

History.

Crime.

Murder.

Women murderers.

Indiana--History--19th century.

Indiana.

HISTORY / United States / General.

HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).

HISTORY / Women.

Local Subjects:

HISTORY / United States / General.

HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).

HISTORY / Women.

Genre:

Case studies.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana's White River. Suspicion for both deaths turned to Nancy Clem, a housewife who was also one of Mr. Young's former business partners. Wendy Gamber chronicles the life and times of this charming and persuasive Gilded Age confidence woman, who became famous not only as an accused murderess but also as an itinerant peddler of patent medicine and the supposed originator of the Ponzi scheme.

Contents:

Prologue

New Year's Day

Business

Cold Spring

Detection

Trial

Self-reliant and God defiant!

Knowed it was them

I wish I was an angel

A good soldier

Lebanon

The Indiana murderess

Indiana justice

I kept it rolling

Aunty Smith

Mrs. Dr. Patterson

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.

ISBN:

9781421420202

1421420201

OCLC:

922836242