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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5079, 25 April 1885, Page 2

"Your wife is dead. Please return home and live in happiness," is a " personal" in a St. Louis paper.

Professor Samuel Kent Kane, an uncle of Dr. Kane, of .'Arctic fame, is dead. He was a native of Ohio, and was in his sixty* seventh year. He was a Professor of Natural Science in Oberlin College when the oil excitement broke oat. He made ventures and prospered, becoming a millionaire. Then be was caught in large speculations; the originators of the Standard Oil Company secured his refineries and Kane was penniless* Next the mining fever broke out. Kane was ia Colorado and had a paper. He went into mining enterprises, and came out a miUjonapie. There oame a turn in the tide, however, but this time he saved £130,000 out of the wreck of his fortune. He went East, and his wealth increased to £200,000, but a confidence speculator again made him poor. In 1871, while in Arizona examining certain copper mining lands for Boston capitalists, luck again came to him. In throe months he returned East with £40,000.

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