![]() ![]() Cochise County Cowboy Bill Leonard, a former watchmaker from New York City, was one of three men implicated in the robbery, and he and Holliday had become good friends. On March 15, 1881, at 10:00 pm, three cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying $26,000 in silver bullion (by the inflation adjustment algorithm: $730,062 in today's dollars) near Benson, Arizona, during which the popular driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and passenger Peter Roerig were killed. Holliday, like his friend Wyatt Earp, was always looking for an opportunity to make money, and joined the Earps in Tombstone during the fall of 1880. In 1880, he and Kate parted ways when Kate left for Globe, Arizona, but she rejoined Holliday soon after he arrived in Tombstone. Holliday was making money at the gambling tables in Prescott. Virgil Earp had already been in Prescott, Arizona, and persuaded his brothers to move to Tombstone. īy her own account, Doc and Kate met up again with Wyatt Earp and his brothers on their way to the Arizona Territory. Kate also occasionally worked at a dance hall in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Holliday worked as a dentist by day and ran a saloon on Center Street by night. They traveled to Trinidad, Colorado, and then to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where they lived for about two years. Īccording to Kate, the couple later married in Valdosta, Georgia. The two fought regularly and sometimes violently, but made up after fights despite the volatile relationship. Doc opened a dental practice by day but spent most of his time gambling and drinking. The couple went with Earp to Dodge City and registered as Mr. Doc said at one point that he considered Kate his intellectual equal. In 1876, Kate moved to Fort Griffin, Texas, where in 1877 she met Doc Holliday. The McLaury brothers stayed there the night before the gunfight at the O.K. Kate's saloon in Tombstone originally called the "Grand Hotel" was built in 1880. In 1874, Kate was fined for working as a "sporting woman" (prostitute) in a " sporting house" (brothel) in Dodge City, Kansas, run by Nellie "Bessie" (Ketchum) Earp, James Earp's wife. In 1869, she is recorded as working as a prostitute for madam Blanche Tribole in St. Researcher Jan Collins states that Kate entered the Ursuline Convent but did not remain long. Since Kate met Doc Holliday in the early 1870s, she may have confused the two and their occupations when recalling the facts later in her life. The census also shows that another Melvin was employed by a St. Louis in the mid 1860s but that he was married to a steamship captain's daughter named Mary Bust. The United States Census records report that a Silas Melvin lived in St. Louis she married a dentist named Silas Melvin with whom she had a son, and that both died of yellow fever. Kate later claimed that while she lived in St. Louis and Dodge City Īt age 16, Kate ran away from her foster home and stowed away on a riverboat bound for St. ![]() The 1870 United States Census records for Davenport show Kate's younger sister, 15-year-old Wilhelmina (Wilma), living with and working as a domestic for Austrian-born David Palter and his Hungarian wife Bettina. Mary Katherine and her younger siblings were placed in the home of her brother-in-law, Gustav Susemihl, and in 1870 they were left in the care of attorney Otto Smith. Horony and his wife died within a month of one another in 1865. The Horony family settled in a predominantly German area of Davenport, Iowa, in 1862. Horony, his second wife Katharina, and his children left Hungary for the United States, arriving in New York City on the German ship Bremen in September. Kate Horony (left) and younger sister Wilhelmina c. ![]()
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