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Anna Stairs (1870-1958) married Elmer McKinley (1863-1939) in an elaborate and expensive wedding in Ravenswood on June 5, 1895. She was the granddaughter of the influential Judge Robert Shelley Brown, and Elmer was a clerk at the McKinley Security Company Bank. They had two daughters and lived together until February 1915. Then they separated due to Elmer’s alcoholism and poor financial management. His bank also closed that spring “on account of certain irregularities,” and he was committed to the Spencer Asylum, where he later died. A divorce was granted on April 7, 1923, and Anna retained all her assets, having signed a prenuptial agreement prior to the wedding.